There’s an old saying that goes, “If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it also knock over a power line that ends up electrocuting over a dozen animals?”

MONTANA — Earlier this month, electrical crews in northwestern Montana discovered a live power line downed in the woods, along with a necro-zoo of animal corpses nearby.

The electrocuted remains of five whitetail deer, four black bears, two wolves, one coyote and a turkey vulture were found near the power line.

This photo is from a separate incident, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome.

Officials believe a dry tree fell on the high-voltage power line during the summer. A biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said a whitetail deer probably walked into the line first and its carcasses attracted other animals, including predators, which were in turn electrocuted. [1]

All of the carcasses were at varying stages of decomposition, meaning that the electrocutions took place separately over a period of several months.

Roger Pitman, operations superintendent at the Lincoln Electric Cooperative played down the incident and joked around by saying, “We’re just thankful there weren’t any two-legged creatures up there, except for the turkey vulture.”

Why didn’t anyone take a picture of the aftermath?

Not to disappoint my readers, I re-created what it would probably look like to come upon a dozen dead animals of varying species in the woods.

This image took me an hour to make. If you don’t like it, fuck you.

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