I LOVE BATS!!!

[Nomik]

I'm crazy about bats!!!

Does anyone else share this weird affinity for these adorable creatures?
My mom is constantly sharing bat related pictures on my FB page.
This is the most adorable video about Lil Drac. Check it out!
If you have any good bat pictures, videos, or stories, post then here.

 

[Grandpa]

I like bats. Amazing animals.

Besides, like spiders, they eat mosquitoes.

 

[Out of Order]

 

[Nomik]

Yep. I should have expected that
...

 

[Grandpa]

OoO, master of all things homonymical.

 

[mal]

Not after what they did to Cujo...those little bastards!

 

[Out of Order]

OoO, master of all things homonymical.

Not that there's anything wrong with that........(blatant Seinfeld reference........)

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Nope! Nothing but flying rats!

 

[Nomik]

Nope! Nothing but flying rats!

They are so much more.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...here's a belfry to store those in.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

....I am ambivalent about bats......disease ridden in a lot of cases, but also great insect sweepers.....

 

[Nomik]

....I am ambivalent about bats......disease ridden in a lot of cases, but also great insect sweepers.....

That bat is awesome.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

They are so much more.

OK, flying rats with sonar!

 

[Grandpa]

OK, flying rats with sonar!

Who eat mosquitoes.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Who eat mosquitoes.

Oh, I know their role in the eco-system. Flying rats just creep me out!

 

[morgan]

I absolutely love them in theory.

But a few months ago I was at my old house and all of a sudden something came soaring down the stairs at lightning speed. I was in its path and so I hit the ground, banging my head on the exercise trampoline as I went down. It flew into the bathroom and thank God I had enough sense to run and open the door that leads to the garage. It flew into the garage and I had the door cracked so I could see what it was. Wasn't completely sure it wasn't a bird until it settled onto the rafters and folded its wings under itself. That bat is probably still living in the garage for all I know. Nightmares and terror for weeks (and a dislocated shoulder and lump on my noggin)!

I will appreciate them from a distance (a great distance!) or in pictures.

 

[not_nadine]

They always get stuck in my hair.

 

[morgan]

They always get stuck in my hair.

Haha! I used to make jokes about my hair looking like something out of a Tim Burton movie.

 

[GNTLGNT]

....I've told this story before, as a college freshman in 1979, my roomie and I were able to move into our dorm a bit early because his mom was the Deans secretary....as we started shlogging our crap up the hall, we noticed something flitting up and down the hallway...it was, of course, a bat...I had the bright idea of tossing my hat into its flight path and so much for echo location, it and my hat fell to the floor-whereupon my buddy stomps it....thus the bat in my hat(sorry Dr. Seuss)and my chapeau both met an untimely demise....

 

[staropeace]