Tucked away in today's Scotsman is an account of what must be an omen for something.

The article recounts that following the severe weather an electricity repair team on one of the Hebrides found three dead creatures near a downed power line.

The first was a dead sheep which it seems was unlucky enough to be caught by the still live power line when it fell to the ground.

The second was a golden eagle which presumably found the dead sheep and saw only a free meal not a "live" but dead sheep.

The third was a fox which it can only be assumed never stopped to question why both the sheep and the eagle were deceased (but were still unfortunately "live").

There must be a moral in the tale somewhere. "There's no such thing as a free lunch" seems rather obvious. Perhaps its the Hebridean equivalent of a multiple pile up on the Motorway? Personally my sympathy is with the poor sheep - minding its own business when fiz crackle and pop the next thing it knows it is both dead and live at the same time. Can one have a Heisenberg sheep?

Or perhaps you just find the whole story rather shocking?