Couch Critter regaled me with this story this morning....

An eagle attacked a 69 year old woman in Tirol as she was going to church. From Babelfish to add to the hilarity....

An Eagle stole a handbag from Pensionistin in Tirol A sea-eagle robbed the handbag in the Saturday afternoon of a Pensionist in Kundl in the Tyrolean district Kufstein. According to description of the woman the bird fell itself it on it, stole her handbag and then continued to fly. About ten meters far away from the 69-year old, established itself the animal then and scanned its booty. With the robbery bird it concerned according to data of the police a white head sea-eagle, whichhad obviously some days before escaped from its owner. The bird accustomed to humans was supposedly on food search and seized thereby to unusual methods. Several witnesses of the incident tried unsuccessfully to catch the three-year eagle female. The grab bird was started however little later on the Tyroleans road (B 171) by a minibus. The actually tame sea-eagle had obviously confounded the vehicle with the car of its owner. The Falkner uses an identically constructed model in the training. During the collision the animal was injured. Flight-unable it fled on an adjacent field, where it was finally caught by a specialist and returned to his owner, a Falkner from cell at the Ziller.

I luvs me some Babelfish. For those of you who know German, you can click on the title and see the real report.