It was a case of life imitating art near Griffith last week with hundreds of birds doing their best Pixar re-enactment.
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Essential Energy workers were investigating line faults on Friday when they saw a low-hanging power line covered in birds, which snapped upwards when they took off, only to weigh down the line a little further along the road.
It was a scene reminiscent of an early animated short film from Pixar, the company that rose to fame with Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up and Monsters Inc.
In For The Birds, a flock of birds sitting on a power line has an unfortunate encounter with physics after a large bird weighs them all down.