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Story summary
- A motorist in Bryson City, North Carolina, reported that a bald eagle dropped a cat through her windshield on U.S. Route 74 around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
- The driver called 911 and said, "It absolutely shattered my windshield," with a witness corroborating.
- The cat did not survive and was found on the roadside.
- The incident underscores the rebound of the bald eagle population in the United States since the 1980s.
