Fun with Bats

Eeek eeeek uck. We were discussing our run in's with bats the other day, and thought I would write them down and share them with you. I mean little bats are a common thing around here. You see them flying in the street lights at night eating all the bugs buzzing around. You can find bat hidey holes in the rock walls where the dam is built. So...all in all they are pretty friendly. Except for these two times. hehehehee

One night Gigantor was out night fishing on "the big pond" (lake Powell people, sheesh) At night him and some buddies have been known to pull in 60lbs of stripers. Anywhoooo he was out night fishing, and he feels this major Yank. So he jerks up to set the hook, only nothing there. Yank Yank, he jerks up again to set the hook, nope nothing there. Then YANK YANK YANK YANK YANK He's like what the hell?? So he starts slowly reeling his line in while the yanking continues. Then his line stops reeling in, and he can't find that it's stuck on the bottom of the lake. He looks up and it looks like he's got a mess of dead leaves at the top of his pole, he thought he just got junk on the line, and it got caught. He goes to brush it off, and it moves. WHAT THE HELL??? he yells. He pulls his pole closer to his face and notices a little bat tangled in his line, and when he reeled it in, he had reeled the poor things little wing in through the top eye hole of the fishing pole. Apparently Mr. Bat, had been skimming the top of the water flying along eating the little bugs that hop along the water. And he flew right across Gigantor's fishing line and got tangled. I mean seriously what are the odds of that?? So....Gigantor the big softy decides he's gonna try to dislodge the poor thing and hope his wing is rubbery enough and okay that he can just fly off. He's talking soft, and gently trying to remove this poor bat, and just when he's almost got it done, the little sucker bit the crap our of him. (insert insane screaming here (BATS=RABIES, BATS=RABIES) ) Okay that was me after I found out that he got bit. hehehehe Anywhoo, Gigantor being the good E.M.T. and outdoorsman that he is, knew he could be in big trouble now, so he packs up, puts the bat in an old box he had, and he drives himself to the hospital. Well at first the doctors are all laughing at him, cuz in walks this GIANT with a little boo boo bite on his thumb. And then Gigantor whips open the box and the doctors starting running and screaming BATSSSS BATSSSSSSSSSS hehehehe So... poor Mr. Bat had to be sent off and tested for rabies, and poor Gigantor had to start undergoing the series of rabies shots. Until the results came back, better safe than sorry. Well the rabies shots are a series of 8 shots over a 6 week period, and they cost a couple hundred bucks a shot. We were told the county could have Mr. Bat tested in a week. Okay that's 2 maybe 3 shots. Well the county drug it's heels, and Gigantor had to get 7 of the 8 shots, before we were told the bat did not have rabies, and we were very lucky. About then I was pissed, cuz they admitted that they could have had the tests in 48 hours of when it was sent in. Needless to say, we didn't pay for one single shot, it ended up being the counties bill. hehehehe

Well our second bat encounter is much more comical. We will never live it down at McDonalds again. About say 3 years ago, we were in our car, and decided to go grab some dinner and mickey dee's. We are in the drive through and the lady goes, "may I help you" right about then, the lady hears "OH SHIT GET OUT GET OUT A BAT!!!!" She's like "excuse me" A mother bunny humping bat flew in our car window and dive bombed me and Giganotor, and tried to fly to the back seat. (kiddo was strapped in back there) Gigantor slapped it down and it hit the floor of the car. I was out of that car like a bullet, and grabbing kiddo as I ran. I think the car seat may have still been strapped to his ass I moved so fast. Gigantor bales out of the car, and is screaming in the drive through speaker, "we need a flashlight, a BAT!!!!" By this time there are like 4 cars behind us, watching us running around freaking out, and McDonald employee's and managers are coming out to see what's wrong. One employee in his infinite wisdom walked up, and hands Gigantor a broom, and leaps back, and goes, "there man, bash it, bash it with the broom" (now bats don't freak me out by any means, I'm actually fascinated by them, but the whole rabies shots, and maybe my son having to go through that had me flipped out) So, Gigantor looks at the broom, looks at the guy and starts laughing. He gives the broom back, and goes "dude I just need to find it and help it out of the car so he can be on his merry way" Gigantor puts on some leather work gloves that happened to be on the dash ( he didn't want bit again either) and right in the drive through proceeds to empty the car, even going as far as lifting all the floor mats. I think he would have taken the seats out, if we let him. We then see something fly up from the growing pile of stuff out of our car that he started. I'm like "there he goes, there there" and Gigantor is like "are you sure" So now I'm second guessing myself. I'm like "ummm maybe???" So..we put the car back together, and realize all 4 cars behind us are not angry but laughing their butts off. The Mc Donalds employees thanked us for the entertainment, and many people said they had never seen a family bale out of a car so fast. All the way home, we continually turned the light on and checked the floor, and moved things, just wondering if the bat was gonna come out and go all mutant vampire on us or something.

I hear some parts of Texas have HUGE bats. I think I'm gonna keep my windows up the whole time I'm there. heheheheeh

Happy batty Wednesday everyone.