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davec
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Username: Davec
Post Number: 75
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:04 am: |     |
Kind of a funny story.
On Superbowl Sunday we had some friends over to watch the game, when suddenly a cry goes out, "There's a bat in here!!!"
One of our friends is terribly afraid of bats. Her newborn was in the living room with us and she was trapped in the kitchen.
Much mayhem ensued. There's my wife with a broom, alternating between defending the area around the baby and trying to "encourage" the bat out of the room. Dogs are going nuts thinking this is all a great game. I open the front hoping the bat will fly out and out dash the dogs. Baby's dad is flapping his arms trying to ward of the bat and laughing his head of. Baby's mum is wailing from the kitchen "How's my baby?"
So Baby's dad gets the dogs in and puts them into the kitchen, wife takes baby into the kithchen, defending as she goes. So now all the guests, my wife and the dogs are in the kitchen with the door closed. I get a towel, throw it over the bat as it flys by, and grab it. Poor thing is scared out of its mind. Took it outside let it go.
Everyone comes cautiously out, nervously looking around, expecting to be dive bombed.
All this from a creature that was barely two inches long.
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DBrown
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Username: Dbrown
Post Number: 113
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:15 am: | |
Very funny story.
I grew up in southern NJ with a cemetary behind our backyard. A bat, supposedly from the cemetary, flew down our chimney 2 or 3 times. On one ocassion, my parents returned home to find my then 13-year-old brother frozen with fear on the couch as a bat hung upside from the curtain rod directly above him. |
#9Dream
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Username: 9dream
Post Number: 66
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:17 am: | |
Bats...yeech. They're just so creepy looking and of course there's all the mythology around them that makes them so frightening.
Your story reminds me of the time my wife was chased around a parking lot by a bumblebee. She must have looked like a total loon to anyone not close enough to see the bee. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1328
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 8:17 pm: | |
Davec:
Bats are the major source of rabies in this country. If you touched the bat with anything other than that towel, you should get checked out just to play safe. |
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