But the plan wasn’t sinister.
A snowy owl had become trapped in barbed wire in a perimeter fence at the Smithfield State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon.
The owl is expected to make a full recovery.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission said snowy owls are infrequent visitors to Pennsylvania. However, the birds have been seen more frequently in the Midwest and East Coast in recent years.
(Q13 Fox - December 28, 2017)
