Holy Shit - BATMAN

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

So, I'm tired, just got done watching some B rated scary movie... go upstairs to call it a night. For a change, I actually turn on the light in my bedroom, normally I just go by a nightlight, brush my teeth, and go to bed. Anyway, I flip on the light, and see a FUCKING BAT flying around in my room.

Suddenly, I was no longer tired. I went back downstairs, got a big broom, and knocked it down, then put a plastic container over it, took a few pictures, and let it go outside. I tried to get a picture of it baring its teeth, but he wasn't vary cooperative. Goddamn bats!

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More here (http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/imagedream/Misc/), but not a lot different than what you see here.

[Nilandia]

I hate to say it, but it's cute!

Gretchen

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Yeah, cute until he dive bombs you! I wasn't really scared after the initial shock. It gets the adrenalin pumping when you see something flying around your head that you didn't expect. He didn't even make a sound flying, like you'd expect from a bird. He was PISSED when I knocked him down though, squeeked at me a bunch.

[SolitareConfinement]

i live out in the country and we have bats out here and since there is a mercury light outside my garage, at night you can be standing outside and if you are careful and watch close enough the quick little bastards dive in and out of sight extremely fast but its kind of cool to watch em for those split seconds just happy in the fact that they are devouring mosquito after mosquito

[iJin]

that bat totally looks fake. lol

[Danical]

I just had a Great Outdoors flashback.

Fucking rad.

[Tisket]

Flying rats should be killed on sight. Horrible things.

[Danical]

bats kills all sorts of pesky insects though! They're awesome in my book.

[Tisket]

I didn't say they don't serve a purpose. They should still be eradicated from the earth though.

[Danical]

:(:cry::(

[Durgrimst]

This is hilarious to me cause on Weds night I was laying in bed when my buddies wife started screaming. I go into the living room and she is freaking out....

Eventually she is able to tell me that there is a bat in my kitchen. It was really small and just laying on the floor. I threw a towel over it and it started making weird noises. I threw it outside so it was pretty easy for me. I would've been pissed if it was flying around in my house though.

[Sean of the Thread]

I just had a Great Outdoors flashback.

Fucking rad.

First thing that came to mind. Awesome.

The funny thing is you kinda look like John Candy SHM. /shrug

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[Back]

Thats full of awesome. A broom? Thats so... I don’t know... cliche? And humane.

Thanks for the pics. And for being humane.

Around here, just at twilight, you can toss anything up in the air and they will dive bomb it.

[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

that bat totally looks fake. lol

You heard the woman, everyone, the bat is fake.:forehead:

At any rate, kudos on the awesome broom speed to take out that mofo. Not sure I'd be able to get it with anything short of a trash bag, and even then, it would probably fare as well as it did on The Office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3XG9tY2zLQ

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Not sure I'd be able to get it with anything short of a trash bag, and even then, it would probably fare as well as it did on The Office.


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[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

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For a pastry chef, I deem your internetzing admirable.

[Skeeter]

Yeah those things carry rabies like a mofo.

[Audriana]

Racoons are still the #1 rabies carrier by far in the US. They don't infect humans much, but anything else that bites you with rabies probably got it from a racoon.

[Sean of the Thread]

Racoons are still the #1 rabies carrier by far in the US. They don't infect humans much, but anything else that bites you with rabies probably got it from a racoon.

Wrong.

This is the number one rabies carrier in the US.

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[Kitsun]

Ah, hell. I'd actually want a bat inside my house at this point. We've got an ass ton of mosquitos getting inside this year.

That little sucker is cute as all get out.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I went out for a smoke at like 3:30 this morning and it was still out near my deck, dive bombing the insects. I hope it sticks around. At least, I think it was the same one.

Still kind of creeps me out that it was so quiet.

[Snapp]

It's really cute for a fake bat.

They scare the hell out of me when they're flying around my deck though. They move so fast and I can't actually see them. I can just see shadows flying passed my face.

[Stretch]

This is why God invented water guns.

[Tea & Strumpets]

I had a dream once that there was a bat flying around my room and that I was waving my hands around trying to knock it down. When I woke up in the morning and went to use the bathroom adjacent to my bedroom, there was a dead bat in the toilet.

Apparently I wasn't dreaming, just groggily half awake, and the bat somehow managed to commit suicide before I woke up.

[Peanut Butter Jelly Time]

Apparently I wasn't dreaming, just groggily half awake, and the bat somehow managed to commit suicide before I woke up.


Or maybe... <insert suspicious music here> HE WAS MURDERED!

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[diethx]

I hate to say it, but it's cute!

:yeahthat:


You heard the woman, everyone, the bat is fake.:forehead:

Quit being an idiot.

[Sweets]

I have a family of bats living in the gazebo in my back yard. It's far enough away from the house that the ick factor isn't there and close enough to keep the insects down. I call the big guy Bob.

[Stanley Burrell]

Cute bastard.

[Numbers]

I'd take a bat over insects any day. Unless it was like...a whole swarm of bats. And they all had rabies.

But yeah, bats > insects.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Yeah, I hope I didn't hurt it any when I knocked it down, but I unfortunately didn't have a butterfly net or anything like that to try and get it. He seemed fine, but I bet the pictures pissed him off.

[Sean of the Thread]

A 20 gauge salt load would take care of any bat bullshit real fast without fucking up the house. Unless you're a dumbass of course.

[Back]

Did it ever cross your mind to buy a birdcage?

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Nope, I think wild creatures should remain wild.

[Back]

Agreed on that though it might have been interesting to observe for a few days.

[Keller]

Agreed on that though it might have been interesting to observe for a few days.

Bats exhibit all sorts of genuine behavioral tendencies while in a cage.

What is wrong with you?

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Agreed on that though it might have been interesting to observe for a few days.

Or you could watch National Geographic and look it up on Wikipedia.

[Clove]

I didn't say they don't serve a purpose. They should still be eradicated from the earth though.So mean. My grandfather used to say this to people with your sort of attitude:

"May you be plagued by all they consume."

Bats are good things to have around, although when I was a boy and we lived in rural PA, we'd get them in the house sometimes. They can really get your heart thumping, but they don't mean you any harm and they're just panicking themselves trying to find their way back into open spaces. Usually if you open a window, close the room up and give them enough time, they'll find their own way out.

Years ago I volunteered for our local library and they had a huge bat problem. I think they finally bat-proofed the building but back in the day, bats would come into the historical building at dawn and make their way into the main library rooms and sleep. They'd hook their claws into the foam-tile suspended ceilings and every morning the staff would have to do a "bat-sweep" and get them out of the children's library and every other room that had low-enough ceilings for us to safely get to them. They were pretty docile. We'd just scoop them into a net and take them outside.

The main library had a 24' ceiling and we didn't have a high enough ladder to get to it. We'd leave those bats there all day. Nobody ever looked up and saw them, but to the staff they were plain as day. It was hilarious seeing readers going about their business with 1/2 a dozen bats sleeping overhead.

[Tisket]

So mean. My grandfather used to say this to people with your sort of attitude:

"May you be plagued by all they consume."



If I had a button in front of me that, when pushed, would kill all bats and spiders in the world I'd push it so fast it'd make your head spin. Bring on the fucking mosquitos! I'll trust in chemicals to keep their population down. Raid FTMFW.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I have insane allergic reactions to mosquito bites. Not only does five inches around the bite swell to epic proportions, but I get runny eyes and nose and numbness in the whole area, broken only by incredible itchiness.

When I was in culinary school, one weekend I went to a party at a beach house along the CT river, and since we all got wasted and it was the summer, I was wearing flip flops and didn't remember to keep spraying that bug spray. My foot got three bites and was so swollen that I couldn't even fit it into my shoe. I had to wear an oversized slipper to class for nearly a week just to get the swelling to go down.

I got bit again recently on my toe taking the garbage out to the sidewalk on trash day and my toe was so massive that my foot didn't even fit into my uggs.

If I had a button to kill all mosquitoes, I'd do THAT in a heartbeat, haha.