doody Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Just got roused from sleep by a big creepy bat flying around my bedroom. I did what any other red blooded man would do. I screamed like a girl and fled the room.(well the damn thing is the size of a pigeon!) I've lived in houses with mice, roaches, silverfish, spiders, boxelder bugs, earwigs, even squirrels but this is my first bat. When I was night supervisor at work, I would get the call a couple times a week of a bat on one of the wards. It always creeped the shit out of me then, too. But, at least at work I was fully dressed and had whole hallways to work with. Battling one in my underwear, in the middle of the night is a different ballgame alltogether!!! If you hear blood curldling screams tonight, it's probably me battling to the death with a rabies infested bat. I'd call for help, but my phone is trapped in the bedroom with the bat. If I should die, tell my family I died fighting.(leave out the part about me screaming like a little girl.)
kizanski Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 This actually happened to me TWICE!And I didn't have the benefit of underwear, either.
Brooks Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 haha!!! when i was a kid the same thing happened (in my folks' room). the bat crash landed in the toilet!
Steve Haynie Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Did your wife forget to tell you her mother was coming over?
tafkathundernotes Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 +1 on the tennis racket. They can't see and will try to fly through the holes in the racket.
Feynman Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Toss those pics of Joan Jett from the other thread into the room. It will either die of fright or start humping it.
serial Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Trash can and a broom or tennis racket. They tire out quickly and are much easier to get. Get them in the trash can and let them go outside. We've had em get in twice over the past decade. The first time was no big deal, but the second time, my daughter was about a year old and asleep-the first thing to do was to close her door so it couldn't get in there. Try to isolate it in a smaller room (low ceiling preferable if you can do that) and close the door.
Guest Meshuggah Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Spiced Bat Wings RecipeIn the reservoir of Halloween all time favorite dishes, it is the spiced bat wings recipe that has been sailing smoothly. Talking about the nutritional value of spiced bat wings dish, it contains about 110 calories, 7-gram fats, 30 mg cholesterol, 65 mg sodium, 2 g carbohydrates and 7 g proteins. Here are the steps as to how to make the receipe of spiced bat wingsIngredients:4 teaspoons curry powder 2 teaspoons ground ginger 1-teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4-teaspoon salt 2 pounds (20 to 24) chicken wing drummettes 3 tablespoons LAND O LAKES® Butter, melted 1-cup mango chutney Method:Take large size resalable plastic food storage bag and put curry powder, ginger, cinnamon and salt in it. Also add chicken and now seal the bag. The next step in the preparation consists of shaking the bag properly, so as to make sure that the chicken is uniformly coated with spices. Now refrigerate the marinated chicken for at least 3 hours or overnight. Take the oven and heat it at a temperature of 350°F. Place chicken on aluminum foil-lined on a 15x10x1-inch jellyroll pan. Drizzle with butter. Now bake the chicken for about half an hour or till the chicken turns golden brown and your easy spicy bat wings receipe is ready. Enjoy this yummy dish with mango chutney.
anotherfreak2 Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Ceiling fan I htink it makes them think they're flying really fast! +1 on the tennis raquet/Trash can If you need pointers go rent "The Great Outdoors" John Candy is the best!
Faust Wurstkotzenhauser Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Tennis racket. Yep... obliterate it with the Chaos Grid...
doody Posted July 20, 2007 Author Posted July 20, 2007 Well after closing it in my bedroom, I came downstairs to hide...errr...formulate a battleplan. The bugger must have crawled under the door to continue to stalk its prey. In a few minutes it was downstairs flying laps through the kitchen and dining room. I went upstairs and got dressed, got a towel, cried a little bit, took a nap, and came downstairs this morning to do battle in the daylight and the little bugger has disappeared. I've spent the morning peering behind doors, under couches, behind curtains, etc. and can't find the damn thing. I think its lying in wait to pounce on me tonight when I'm sleeping.Now I am paranoid, tired, and creeped out. Guess I'll call one of those bat removal services to see if I have them in my crawlspaces. Upon investigating the attic, I found bat scat. I don't want a repeat preformance of the underwear batdance at 3am.Oh the joys of home ownership just never cease.
cmatthes Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 It's still there. It is waiting for you to sleep so that it can suck out your soul. Bats do that you know.
Pieman Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I brought down a bat in 1969 with a bamboo pole. One end was split. When I swung it through the air, the ends flared and knocked it down. They can fly around aother ridgid objects, but not split-end bamboo poles. Do you have any bamboo growing in your neighborhood> And not that little green feng-sheu shoots-in-a-jar thing. I mean the real stuff. An old fishin' pole? A couple years ago in Boulder, I used a blanket. No bamboo in Boulder.
HAMERMAN Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I had one in my previous house about 10 years back. The night it showed up I went looking for it with a fishing net about an hour after the initial panic was over and couldn't find it. Two days later I get home from work and it's circling the entry way. After a bit of screeming like a girl I came to my senses, found the fishing net, caught it and then beat it to death with a boot. I know, not the PC thing to do but I was in a state of panic. Using the "if it found it's way in once it can find it's way in again" train of logic I later decided that I propably would have still done the same thing (except for the girly screaming of course!) even if I hadn't been a bit freaked out. :-)
cmatthes Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 99.9% of the bats that are in your home won't hurt you unless YOU do something stupid (or if they happen to be rabid). I don't mind having them around (preferably outside, of course), because they eat a crapload of mosquitoes.
kizanski Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I'm not gonna lie.. Like I said, this happened to me TWICE about 11 or 12 years ago.The 1st time, the Wife and I were fast asleep and, at about 2:30am or so, we hear our cats jumping up in the air and landing on the floor. We switched on the light to see the bat flying in a circle around the bed, about 3 feet above our faces. He was getting tired because he was spiraling slowly downward with every revolution as we watched in horror - the sheets pulled up to our eyes.Apparently, he was trying to land, but the cats were right on his ass every time he tried.Wifey and I slithered out of the bad and crawled out of the room, Army style."We could get him out of there with a vase and a big piece of cardboard," she said."Yea. Let me know how you make out," I said, and hit the sofa.She got that one out and proceeded to mock me. I took it like a man, though. There are three things that creep me out: Mice, flying mice (bats), and carnies.The following week, literally to the day and time, we wake up to the sound of one of my cats growling on my wife's side of the bed. Along with the growling, we hear this clicking."Oh crap. She has something," she said. "See what it is."Since the clicking made me think it was a cricket, and my wife is deathly afraid of them, I snapped into Hero-mode and told her I'd handle it.When I peered over her side of the bed to see where the cat was, the cat let go of the "cricket" which turned out to be a bat and it took off right at my face."Ok. I'm out. Let me know when you catch him" Then it started to circle the bed much like his buddy from the week before.It turns out that this house that we were renting at the time had an opening in the crawlspace over our bedroom and the bats were setting up camp in the attic and made their way in to the bedroom.Luckily, we haven't seen any action like that in our current house....but the cats are ready...
SteveB Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 this is why you don't mess with bats:http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=423526
Guest Meshuggah Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 I'm not gonna lie.. Like I said, this happened to me TWICE about 11 or 12 years ago.The 1st time, the Wife and I were fast asleep and, at about 2:30am or so, we hear our cats jumping up in the air and landing on the floor. We switched on the light to see the bat flying in a circle around the bed, about 3 feet above our faces. He was getting tired because he was spiraling slowly downward with every revolution as we watched in horror - the sheets pulled up to our eyes.Apparently, he was trying to land, but the cats were right on his ass every time he tried.Wifey and I slithered out of the bad and crawled out of the room, Army style."We could get him out of there with a vase and a big piece of cardboard," she said."Yea. Let me know how you make out," I said, and hit the sofa.She got that one out and proceeded to mock me. I took it like a man, though. There are three things that creep me out: Mice, flying mice (bats), and carnies.The following week, literally to the day and time, we wake up to the sound of one of my cats growling on my wife's side of the bed. Along with the growling, we hear this clicking."Oh crap. She has something," she said. "See what it is."Since the clicking made me think it was a cricket, and my wife is deathly afraid of them, I snapped into Hero-mode and told her I'd handle it.When I peered over her side of the bed to see where the cat was, the cat let go of the "cricket" which turned out to be a bat and it took off right at my face."Ok. I'm out. Let me know when you catch him" Then it started to circle the bed much like his buddy from the week before.It turns out that this house that we were renting at the time had an opening in the crawlspace over our bedroom and the bats were setting up camp in the attic and made their way in to the bedroom.Luckily, we haven't seen any action like that in our current house....but the cats are ready...So what your saying here is, you and the wife sleep nekkid.
Zork Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Bats are very difficult to get rid of. Many times, if you have one there may be many. Check the upper floors and attic for droppings. There's usually an odor. They could be there a long time with out you seeing one. They come out right at dusk and like to use the same portals. Watch at dusk and you may see where they enter/exit the house. Also they sound out a click even before they leave the nest so listen for it a few minutes before dusk . Look for holes anywhere in the soffit/siding. Any hole dime size or larger are likely suspects.Exterminators use a one way valve in the holes that let's them exit, but they can't get back in. They leave them in about a week then seal the holes.I had a house that had bat issues and it took a long time to get them to leave. I never got used to them.I still have a Wilson T-3000 I used for Batminton. Very effective. Got a few with my trusty Cole Haan Kiltie Flap loafers too, real leather heels that get as hard as acrylic.Lots wives tales; moth balls, ultrasonic devices, predator urine, etc. Hell, somebody told me to run a chainsaw in the second floor.Good luck and I hope it was just a trespasser.I know they are all God's creatures....but I still hate the little pricks of misery.
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