Woodpecker has a bad day

Was that real? Where did the current pass through?

Looks "shopped" IMO

No carcass or remains

I would have expected a small cloud of feathers and perhaps some charred guts flying if it was real.

Fake news

I like woodpeckers and there’s no free electricity on top of poles, the ground runs on top & hot wire way below, fake to the hilt.
Change that, power on top, ground below. And I know better, righting instead of thinking

Made me look twice.

Real or not?
Many years ago while living in an apartment we had what sounded like a shotgun blast go off right outside, which coincided with the electricity going out. It was a squirrel that crossed the wrong wires on an adjacent power pole, and he had a nickel-sized hole through him to prove it.
High voltage, used improperly, is a MFer.

Fake!

I worked for a telephone company in SO CA in the western Mojave Desert, in or near 1984 or maybe the next year 1985 in late June or early July, I had pulled into our central office yard around lunch time and heard a loud popping sound as I walked towards the side door of the building where my office was, our standby generator started at the same time and I look up where I heard the noises coming from and saw a bunch of sparks shooting out of the fuses on the power transformer going to the feed wires to our building, it popped a bunch of times sounding just like a 12 gauge shotgun going off and each time it pop it threw out a lot of spark that looked exactly like exploding silver fireworks on the 4 of July but it was bright sunshine day in the desert. It turned out we had upgraded and added enough additional equipment in that office due to a lot of growth in that service area and we had overloaded that transformer which ended up blowing out those fuses.
The power company came out right away and replace the transformer with a larger one and double the feed wires to our office, no more problems after that
Luckily none of the sparks cause any ground fires or set the pole and transformer on fire, that is one of those experiences you never forget.
Electricity kills people every year, be careful working around it please.

Hmmm.
Good fake them as its hair slowly starts to stand up then.....zap/

I have seen the remains of several snakes that got into high voltage.

I had a close encounter with a live copperhead that had crawled into a 4160 volt enclosed outdoor motor control box.
It was laying there quietly, my exposed neck about 10 inches away.
I did not spot it, co-workers behind me did.

After not having good results from a “humane” trap door cage type squirrel trap,
I am now having far better results with a $49 high voltage rodent/squirrel trap.

No visible burn marks, no smell, no vomit.
Peach slices and dry mixed bird seed seem to work better than peanut butter.

Fog and dew will set it off, unfortunately.

that fake video reminded me of the time someone made a video of an eagle trying to fly off with someone's kid. That ended up on the news and millions of people though it was real.

Those woodpeckers are destructive pests like termites

They destroy power and telephone poles. They’ll ruin one in just a few years.

Now their putting in composite fiberglass poles

Squirrels and woodpeckers both raise hell on both power and telephone networks, I've seen both dig into and eat lead covered telephone cable as well as make a pole unsafe due to making nests in them like they do in trees
I had one squirrel scare the holy beholy out of me while I was on a pole belted off and working and that little turd came hauling down the opposite of the pole until it got to my safety belt and climbed around it towards me and stopped, I whack him off my belt with my bare hand before thinking Scare me bad
He landed in a tree and ran off making all kinds of chirping and squealing noises, better him than me

LOL I was up a pole and had a squirrel come mid span towards me so I started shaking the cable and he looked like he was breaking a wild horse until he fell into a snow bank. He came up the pole just below me and cussed me out in squirrel talk and ran off.

My dad used to shoot Starlings with hollowpoints, and there'd be evidence of some remains.

Bought a new (to us) lake house. The front porch overhang has a dozen nearly pefectly round 5/8" dia holes. Some through (about an 1/8" dia). Most nearly through. I'm pretty sure they are Pecker holes! I noticed thge light coming through small holes when inspecting the attic area for bats. PS BATS SUCK

Are the Bats entering the attic and/nesting in the woodpecker holes?

Bats were entering at a transision between like a bay window and the main roof. Litterially slipping under a shingle. When I saw approx where they were coming out I put a next camera on the roof. They were slipping under a spot about the size and thickness of a butter knife handle!!! They slipped in and out almost like magic. Local "bat expert" wanted $5000 just to tell them to leave LUCKILY there is a bunch of info online. The camera on the roof was the best investment/method. The CRAZY part is you can't just seal them in. I had to wait till 9:30PM every night when the left (about 4 of them) like clockwork. Then go up on the roof and cover/block that spot. Opened it back up in the morning. Had to do this for about a week to make sure they all wetre out and had left. Then sealed for good. Then paid almost $1000 to have strips of Z shaped metal mesh over the edges of all the ridge vents. Guess that the most common place for them to come and go. WHEW. What a learning curve that was.