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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on July 27, 2005, 07:52:38 PM
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Not much bothers me at work. Sure I get startled by things but nothing really bothers me
I've come across bee hives, Wasp nests, Even came across a hornets nest once.
Had customers dogs that didn't like me including one Boxer that made it perfectly clear that if he could ever get me he was gonna eat me.
I've seen hoards of roaches, termites, Ticks, and even got my clothes infested with fleas once.
One time while working on some trim I had a bat fly out from behind it and that startled me pretty good.
This time was a true first though.
While working on the trim near the peak of a house a flippen bat flew out and actually landed on my shoulder next to my neck and stayed there.
WHOA! did the ol shimmy & shake and flung him off with the back of my hand. Freaked me out so much I was shaking and my heart was racing for like 10 minutes.
One thing I learned though. As it was nestled along side the side if my neck. Bats, are quite warm and furry. and as an afterthought it wasn't at all an unpleasant feeling. I just wasn't expecting it so it kinda weirded me out.
Not sure I'd want to experience it again though LOL
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You evil man, bat was just trying to get lucky. :p
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Did it do the eerie 'clicking' sound? I used to be an exterminator. I have experienced much of what you wrote about to some degree...
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hahaha that's awesome
You evil man, bat was just trying to get lucky.
hahahaha what
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Just be glad it didnt suck your blood...
(http://www.pomegranatearts.com/project-archive/images/philip_glass-dracula.jpg)
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Originally posted by skernsk
Did it do the eerie 'clicking' sound? I used to be an exterminator. I have experienced much of what you wrote about to some degree...
No it just sat there. Or at least I didnt notice it making any noise
Whole episide couldnt have lasted more then a few seconds. Guess I didnt give it a chance to.
Tell me. I seem to remember reading that most common bats dont possess the jaw stregnth to break skin as they are primarily designed to eat very small bugs like mosquitos.
Is this true?
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Originally posted by RightF00T
Just be glad it didnt suck your blood...
(http://www.pomegranatearts.com/project-archive/images/philip_glass-dracula.jpg)
Well my RL Nickname originally given to me by my 5th grade English teacher is "Gomez"
Perhaps it knew that LMAO
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Don't know about jaw strength, Vampire ats have a "straw" tounge which they use to suck the blood after breaking skin with their teeth so they might possess the strength. Couldn't be that bad anyway, they have little mouths. Who had the Bat Signal on by the way?
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edited-not nice, didn't even need Skuzzy to tell me.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Not much bothers me at work. Sure I get startled by things but nothing really bothers me
I've come across bee hives, Wasp nests, Even came across a hornets nest once.
Had customers dogs that didn't like me including one Boxer that made it perfectly clear that if he could ever get me he was gonna eat me.
I've seen hoards of roaches, termites, Ticks, and even got my clothes infested with fleas once.
One time while working on some trim I had a bat fly out from behind it and that startled me pretty good.
This time was a true first though.
While working on the trim near the peak of a house a flippen bat flew out and actually landed on my shoulder next to my neck and stayed there.
WHOA! did the ol shimmy & shake and flung him off with the back of my hand. Freaked me out so much I was shaking and my heart was racing for like 10 minutes.
One thing I learned though. As it was nestled along side the side if my neck. Bats, are quite warm and furry. and as an afterthought it wasn't at all an unpleasant feeling. I just wasn't expecting it so it kinda weirded me out.
Not sure I'd want to experience it again though LOL
LOL!! Whotta picture!
I was under the house once.. a crawl space, trying to get to the underside of the bathroom floor to fix a plumbing problem. Botton of the floor's about 6" from my nose... turned on the flashlight and the entire underside of that wet floor was covered with spiders..
AGGGGGGHHHHHHGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I was out from under the house and at the bottom of the pool in less than 5 seconds.
Yah know, I scream like a girl under water too..
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I wish I got paid for workin' on trim. Couple of 'em I wouldn't have been suprised by bat attacks.
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Similar story as Hang's....was crawling under the crawlspace in the very back part looking for a can of paint I had stored back there. As I was rummaging around a box I pulled a tarp back, and lo and behold a very large black snake drops not a foot in front of me. Now, I'm not the smallest guy(6'3") so I am still amazed to this day how quickly I scuffled back to the entrance, fully expecting the snake to be right in tow. I ran nearly 10 yds away from the house just to get away. I generally hate snakes in general so my heart was on the verge of exploding.
I gathered my courage, picked up a hoe and proceeded to go in and wack the crap out of the thing. It got away somehow under the house. I gave up and went to bed that night half awake, paranoid at the fact the big guy could be crawling up the air vent any minute. The next day, it was like going back into the lion's den. I wacked everything I saw that looked slightly serpentine like(cable cords, garden hoses :lol ). Finally, I found him wounded on top of a box and quickly scooped him into a box I had, repeating the quick dash I had made before.
As scared as I was, I just couldn't justify killing him if I didn't have to. So I jumped in the car and drove down the road. When I let him out after driving a couple miles up the road, he went slithering like all get out. I'm just glad he didnt decide to get out of the box on the ride.;)
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When I was eleven it was my responsibility to take out the garbage from the metal shed we had and put it on the curb every week. One week in the middle of summer I forgot to do it. So the next week rolls around and I open up the shed doors. I notice there are seeds on the floor shaking in the wind and the wind was making the bags russle, of course I then realise there was no damn wind and the were freaking maggots everwhere. The garbage bags were pulsating with them. I think I peed my pants six times. I freak out and get my older sitter to help me triple bag them, and then we unleashed full scale chemical warfare on those little bastards left in shed. Ovencleaner, Raid, you name we fried those suckers with it. I think to this day that shed may be the most toxic structure in Ontario.
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betcha never forgot to take the trash out again.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
LOL!! Whotta picture!
I was under the house once.. a crawl space, trying to get to the underside of the bathroom floor to fix a plumbing problem. Botton of the floor's about 6" from my nose... turned on the flashlight and the entire underside of that wet floor was covered with spiders..
AGGGGGGHHHHHHGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I was out from under the house and at the bottom of the pool in less than 5 seconds.
Yah know, I scream like a girl under water too..
I'd have used a flamethrower before attempting to go back in there...uggg...spiders in closed spaces.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
LOL!! Whotta picture!
I was under the house once.. a crawl space, trying to get to the underside of the bathroom floor to fix a plumbing problem. Botton of the floor's about 6" from my nose... turned on the flashlight and the entire underside of that wet floor was covered with spiders..
AGGGGGGHHHHHHGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I was out from under the house and at the bottom of the pool in less than 5 seconds.
Yah know, I scream like a girl under water too..
well you can just rock me the **** to sleep tonight :mad: :eek:
there is nothing on this planet more evil than spiders
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The biggest worry with bats is rabies. Especially if they don't fear humans. Fear of humans is one of the first things that leaves animals infected with rabies.
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You mean like this? (http://taenia.homestead.com/files/hostscare_1_.wmv)
:lol
Thrawn, the same thing happened to me, except I didn't notice them till the tin garbage can actually bottomed out spilling everything in front of my feet.
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I'm Batman
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Originally posted by moot
You mean like this? (http://taenia.homestead.com/files/hostscare_1_.wmv)
:lol
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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A Cornell gradute student gave a talk at our company last month. He does research on the locomation of bats on the ground. He took video of vampire bats and how they run. Apparently the buggers are fast as lightning on the ground. Here's some video of them and an article about them.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/riskin.mov (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/riskin.mov)
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/Riskin.bats.snd.html (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/Riskin.bats.snd.html)
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Originally posted by Mustaine
well you can just rock me the **** to sleep tonight :mad: :eek:
there is nothing on this planet more evil than spiders
Bah. spiders are nothing.
the house im working on now is in a semi rural setting. Spiders of all sizes and shapes are everywhere. Must be hundreds if not thousands of them.
Under the awnings. in the eves. attached to the gutters and downspouts. where the siding overlaps. in the bushes. in the grass. in the ivy. You mane a place and Im seeing them there.
Must be at least 10 different species including one with a kinda stick figure shape to it that gyrates wildly back and forth whenever its web is disturbed. Pretty cool actually.
Had another experiance today. Got stung on my back by a carpenter bee when I leaned against the hole in the wood it had burrowed into. Fist time I've ever known one to sting
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Bats Im referring to are common bats. Vampire bats arent endogenous to the northeast.
My understanding that bats are actually benificial and can eat up to their weight in mosquitoes every night.
thats alot of skeeters
Im not afraid of bats. Just wasnt expecting one to land on me. though Im sure the bat was as surprised to see me as I was it. LOL
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Yep, if you have bats near you probably don't have many insects. Might be good things to have as pets or something, don't have to feed them.