Anyone ever had to deal with a bat?

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  • Arcticangel
    Arcticangel Posts: 1,443
    Drowned Out wrote:
    Arcticangel wrote:

    Oh man, "heeeeeeere's BATTY!" :lol: That is EXACTLY what it felt like! I swear that as long as I live I will never forget what it looked like to have that thing crawling under my door... just digging it's little claws into the carpet and pulling itself along. *shudders*

    Are Travels With and Captainwisejam the two guys from your second story or wtf? :? :lol:
    Why are people quoting your story without responding or even a :lol: ??
    funny stuff too, btw!...except it's a little disturbing to hear about something being stomped to shit :shock:
    ...and oh, do I have mouse stories. A few. I guess most people would, but this one's special.
    We got a couch back from storage that was INFESTED....somehow, none of us noticed anything out of the ordinary while moving it...we get it in the house, put it down and went for drinks...go back in the room, my sister sits down, and one runs across her lap.....she loses it, we look up, and there were DOZENS of mice crawling thruout the brick around our fireplace...it looked like it was moving. had to move out for a couple days while exterminators did their thing :shock:

    I have no idea why people are quoting my story without commenting. One was a fluke.. but two now. Neil? Neil's roommate whose name escapes me? Is that you?

    Ew. Mice. Plural.
    PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010

    EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Travels With wrote:
    Arcticangel wrote:
    Here's another bat story for you. :) This was actually at a different house too! It was our first night moving in and a couple of neighbors stopped by (on their way home from the bar) to welcome us to our new house. Of course we offered to give them the grand tour... showed them all the rooms and said "The basement is really sketchy, I don't think you want to see it."

    Being boys, they insisted. So I walk them down to the basement.. and I'm on the steps behind them when all of a sudden a bat DIVE BOMBS my head! I mean it went right by my face!! I screamed and ran upstairs... shutting them in the basement. :lol: When I finally calm down and open the door to let them out... I see them, drunkenly dancing around the basement... one with his shirt off trying to parachute it over the bat (not a very effective strategy :? ) while the other has his baseball cap off swinging it around.

    The one guy finally connected with his baseball cap and knocked it to the ground where him and his buddy both stared at it for a second... then stomped the shit out of it!! :shock: The one guy scooped it up with his hat and threw it out the back door...

    I totally needed these guys. They sound much more effective than me with my old kitchen broom. Perhaps if this happens again I'll take a break, pound a few beers, take a couple shots, and then go settle things with the bat!

    The next day we went over to their house with a six-pack as a thank you. We handed them the beer and said "hey, thanks for taking care of the bat for us last night..."

    Their response... "what bat?" :lol::lol::lol:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    captainwisejam wrote:
    Arcticangel wrote:
    Here's another bat story for you. :) This was actually at a different house too! It was our first night moving in and a couple of neighbors stopped by (on their way home from the bar) to welcome us to our new house. Of course we offered to give them the grand tour... showed them all the rooms and said "The basement is really sketchy, I don't think you want to see it."

    Being boys, they insisted. So I walk them down to the basement.. and I'm on the steps behind them when all of a sudden a bat DIVE BOMBS my head! I mean it went right by my face!! I screamed and ran upstairs... shutting them in the basement. :lol: When I finally calm down and open the door to let them out... I see them, drunkenly dancing around the basement... one with his shirt off trying to parachute it over the bat (not a very effective strategy :? ) while the other has his baseball cap off swinging it around.

    The one guy finally connected with his baseball cap and knocked it to the ground where him and his buddy both stared at it for a second... then stomped the shit out of it!! :shock: The one guy scooped it up with his hat and threw it out the back door...
    I had a very simular story, I was going down into the basement, concentrating on the steps because they are kind of steep and ricketty. When I get to the bottom I start to look up and see a bat flying right at me, so I take off my hat and start flailing wildly at it, manage to make contact, knocking it onto a pile of clothes that were waiting to go into the wash. so I throw a towel ( a white one of course) on him and look for something to smash him with. To my luck my wifes high heel boots were right there. so needless to say we don't use that towel anymore. :D
    The next day we went over to their house with a six-pack as a thank you. We handed them the beer and said "hey, thanks for taking care of the bat for us last night..."

    Their response... "what bat?" :lol::lol::lol:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Arcticangel
    Arcticangel Posts: 1,443
    Ahhh good call. :)
    And yes. Liquid courage is essential when dealing with flying rats.
    High heeled shoes... not so sure.. :?

    Man... how's we miss that twice? Thanks. :)
    PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010

    EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Arcticangel wrote:

    Man... how's we miss that twice? Thanks. :)
    i always do that... so I knew where to look for the mistake :P
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Arcticangel
    Arcticangel Posts: 1,443
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Arcticangel wrote:

    Man... how's we miss that twice? Thanks. :)
    i always do that... so I knew where to look for the mistake :P

    Good call. I tip my cap to you. 8-)
    PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010

    EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Travels With wrote:
    One woke up my wife and I this morning at 4 AM flying circles around our bed. After getting it out I didn't think much of it. Now that I've read some things on line I'm almost convinced it was probably rabid and we were unknowingly bit. The health department said we probably need to be given a series of 5 shots just in case. Have any of you had the shots before? This has been a horrible day, I just keep having flashbacks of old yeller. :shock:

    OMG ! My wife would have had a fuckin heart attack !

    I've only killed one with a tennis raquet when it got into a buddy of mines apartment and also i killed one with a shovel in my backyard right before my dog got near it !


    Call me BATMAN Mother fuckers !! :?
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    This thread is going to keep me awake all night! :shock:
  • jammergirl
    jammergirl Posts: 599
    omg, this thread is hilarious! my bat story is pretty funny, i grew up on a ranch and we had bats in one of our barns. well, we noticed our cat started leaping around on the lawn one evening. we assumed she was jumping up to catch bugs or something. well, then she sauntered in the house, walked right up to my mom's feet and set a live bat down that she had caught! my mom was like "wtf...oh my god!!!" we all started screaming as the bat began dive-bombing us. luckily my dad grabbed a tennis racket and beat it, then threw it outside. this happened a few times that summer. :?
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,092
    Arcticangel wrote:
    I live in college housing and I've had bats before.. they always seemed to show up when I was too drunk to know what to do with them... I digress.

    The WORST was one night I came home from a party to find a bat flying in circles in my living room... so I ran like hell and locked myself in my bedroom figuring that the problem would resolve itself by morning.. Well, 10 minutes later I'm sitting on my bed and the sucker crawls under my door.

    I mean, there was maybe an inch crack where the floor wasn't level and it crawled underneath. Obviously, I freak out and run out of the room and lock myself in the bathroom (because it seemed like the most obvious place to be safe)

    Then I realized I left my cell phone and my computer in my room with the bat and no one else was home. When I finally had the courage to open the door to get my phone the thing was clinging to my window just squealing.. you know the horrible noise they make.

    So I retreated to the bathroom where I called a male friend to come deal with it because I'm no feminist when it comes to the creepy crawlies. He caught it in a tupperware container and released it to the wild. (He screamed like a girl when he did it too.)

    My roommate thought we should get the shots - but none of us did and we're all still here. I guess I like to live on the edge :lol:

    Good luck! They're little shits!
    all i know is.....

    if a fucking BAT crawled under the door and in to my bedroom.....

    my girlfriend would be on her own.....

    because i would LEAP right out the fucking window.....hehehehehehehehehe
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    :cry::cry::cry:

    I love bats, and I wish I could have one as a pet actually.

    This thread makes me a sad panda.
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Arcticangel wrote:
    Ahhh good call. :)
    And yes. Liquid courage is essential when dealing with flying rats.
    High heeled shoes... not so sure.. :?

    Man... how's we miss that twice? Thanks. :)
    Two of us missed it twice... :ugeek: :oops:
    :idea: But how do TWO people post right in the MIDDLE of your story, when they're not even trying to split it apart into multiple quotes or anything? :D
    I refuse to take the blame for this misunderstanding :P
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    nevermind, I figured it out :lol:
    if you quote the story, the paragraph break they both posted in is at the bottom of the text window...
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    All the laughs aside I'm really kind of surprised. I thought bats didn't mess with people and are harmless if you leave them alone. I've never heard of them coming inside a house. :?
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Travels With wrote:
    I BrisK I wrote:
    Travels With wrote:
    One woke up my wife and I this morning at 4 AM flying circles around our bed. After getting it out I didn't think much of it. Now that I've read some things on line I'm almost convinced it was probably rabid and we were unknowingly bit. The health department said we probably need to be given a series of 5 shots just in case. Have any of you had the shots before? This has been a horrible day, I just keep having flashbacks of old yeller. :shock:

    where do you live!?

    northern California

    Shit, that's where I live!!! What part?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Arcticangel wrote:
    Here's another bat story for you. :) This was actually at a different house too! It was our first night moving in and a couple of neighbors stopped by (on their way home from the bar) to welcome us to our new house. Of course we offered to give them the grand tour... showed them all the rooms and said "The basement is really sketchy, I don't think you want to see it."

    Being boys, they insisted. So I walk them down to the basement.. and I'm on the steps behind them when all of a sudden a bat DIVE BOMBS my head! I mean it went right by my face!! I screamed and ran upstairs... shutting them in the basement. :lol: When I finally calm down and open the door to let them out... I see them, drunkenly dancing around the basement... one with his shirt off trying to parachute it over the bat (not a very effective strategy :? ) while the other has his baseball cap off swinging it around.

    The one guy finally connected with his baseball cap and knocked it to the ground where him and his buddy both stared at it for a second... then stomped the shit out of it!! :shock: The one guy scooped it up with his hat and threw it out the back door...

    The next day we went over to their house with a six-pack as a thank you. We handed them the beer and said "hey, thanks for taking care of the bat for us last night..."

    Their response... "what bat?" :lol::lol::lol:

    You have the best bat stories ever! You should write for DC!!!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I too will not be able to sleep tonight thinking about the bat crawling under the door! I have heard that mice can get in really small spaces so I guess bats are the same. Holy fuck!!!!!!!!

    I know it is late for everyone (11:30pm Pacific time), but please wake up, original poster, and tell me which part of Northern California you live in and please make it far from my part of Nor Cal!!!!!!!!!!!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Travels With
    Travels With Posts: 615
    rrivers wrote:
    I too will not be able to sleep tonight thinking about the bat crawling under the door! I have heard that mice can get in really small spaces so I guess bats are the same. Holy fuck!!!!!!!!

    I know it is late for everyone (11:30pm Pacific time), but please wake up, original poster, and tell me which part of Northern California you live in and please make it far from my part of Nor Cal!!!!!!!!!!!

    Wake up??? Like I can sleep at all tonight. What kills me is my wife is sleeping like a baby. Unbelievable! I live in Nevada County.
    “I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
  • Travels With
    Travels With Posts: 615
    So I thought I would try and watch a little Giants baseball wrap up to distract me and what title is in bold across the screen....."A Giant Need: How do they get the BIG BAT?" WTF???
    “I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
  • jammergirl
    jammergirl Posts: 599
    ha, I'm from NorCal too! maybe its a northern cali thing?

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