Author Topic: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.  (Read 612 times)

Offline Elfie

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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2008, 10:30:36 AM »
Important to learn that bats are our friends, a typical colony of those can consume a half million pounds of mosquitos every night. :aok

Wonder how many mosquitos per pound? heh
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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2008, 11:17:44 AM »


Great pics Eskimo!

The really funny part is that once you discovered the bat in your room, your first action was to grab your camera!  :rofl :rofl :rofl

I can just imagine what Mrs. Joker would have said if I hadn't grabbed a towel or blanket to trap it with at once!  :lol :lol

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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2008, 11:21:27 AM »
All i could think about was the Dan Akroyd / John Candy scene in that vacation movie and the tennis racket - still laff--

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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2008, 04:20:18 PM »
Great pics.  By coincidence, for the first time, a large bat got into our house and was doing laps around the bedroom ceiling.  It was very skilled, never hit anything and orbited tirelessly until wife and I held up a dark sheet and enveloped it.  It quieted down immediately.  We took it to the back deck and unfurled the sheet.  That bat had some interesting stories to tell back in the cave or wherever. 
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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #19 on: August 20, 2008, 04:44:20 PM »
Summer Rental. And you beat me to it! :p

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I couldn't find a youtube clip of that scene though.

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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2008, 05:08:20 PM »

I know i would have run out of the room covering my head and screaming like a sissy girl :)

Cool pics   :aok

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Re: “Joan, don’t freak out, but there’s a bat in our room”.
« Reply #21 on: August 20, 2008, 05:16:30 PM »
A large colony of 500,000 bats, consuming 500,000 lb...

weight of a mosquitos being 2.5 mg (or 0.005511  lb)

basically means each one is eating more than 180 mossy's each night.
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