Comments on: Teen discovers bat hiding in her bra http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 11:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Carole http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229635 Carole Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229635 This story prompted me to blog about my own story. When I was 13, I had a similar incident when I found a jellyfish tucked in my bathing suit. Luckily, I didn't get stung (don't know if these were stingers). http://yukonchatterbug.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/teenager-discovers-jellyfish-hiding-in-her-bathing-suit/ This story prompted me to blog about my own story. When I was 13, I had a similar incident when I found a jellyfish tucked in my bathing suit. Luckily, I didn’t get stung (don’t know if these were stingers).
http://yukonchatterbug.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/teenager-discovers-jellyfish-hiding-in-her-bathing-suit/

]]> By: phoenix21 http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228614 phoenix21 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228614 Direct quote: "I keep thinking how could I have not known it was there?" Miss Hawkins said. My thoughts exactly! Note to self: go home and check every bra for small vermin.... Direct quote: “I keep thinking how could I have not known it was there?” Miss Hawkins said.

My thoughts exactly! Note to self: go home and check every bra for small vermin….

]]> By: AAeiouy http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-230665 AAeiouy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-230665 This hoax is metastasizing. Heard a squib on NPR this morning. To reiterate, that is a plastic bat in the pic. Real UK bat pics at: http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/uk_bat_species.html Same woman, same plastic bat, even more obviously staged: http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2008/07/08/bat-discovered-in-bra/ Addie may have found a baby bat in her bra, but when media showed up hours later, they "re-enacted" the scene with a rubber bat. ...Or something like that. Pescovitz, you have been duped. This hoax is metastasizing. Heard a squib on NPR this morning.
To reiterate, that is a plastic bat in the pic.
Real UK bat pics at:
http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/uk_bat_species.html
Same woman, same plastic bat, even more obviously staged:
http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2008/07/08/bat-discovered-in-bra/
Addie may have found a baby bat in her bra, but when media showed up hours later, they “re-enacted” the scene with a rubber bat.
…Or something like that.
Pescovitz, you have been duped.

]]> By: Boomer http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229130 Boomer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229130 This is sort of amusing, but things could have turned out badly. Perhaps the garment industry needs to come up with a way to alert would-be wearers to the presence of bats. Perhaps some sort of <i>signal</i>... This is sort of amusing, but things could have turned out badly.

Perhaps the garment industry needs to come up with a way to alert would-be wearers to the presence of bats. Perhaps some sort of signal…

]]> By: Spoon http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229131 Spoon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229131 So, she's started on a series of rabies shots then? From what I understand if you ever wake up and find a bat is in the room with you you're supposed to get a series of rabies shots just to be sure... since bats can bite you leaving no marks and end up killing you with the rabies they may be carrying. So, she’s started on a series of rabies shots then?

From what I understand if you ever wake up and find a bat is in the room with you you’re supposed to get a series of rabies shots just to be sure… since bats can bite you leaving no marks and end up killing you with the rabies they may be carrying.

]]> By: Munkcy http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228622 Munkcy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228622 You can check for bats and bees and parasitic wasp larvae all you want, but they'll still find a way into our clothes. Example (and this story is 100% true): I'm driving home from work one day last summer. I'm on a major highway (I-95) and have my front windows down. There's a slight breeze blowing leaves across the road and I hear one of them actually hit the window (it sounded like a leaf crumpling) and I think nothing of it. A minute or two later I feel a stinging sensation on my left knee. Then I feel it again, and go to scratch my knee. I feel something inside my pants, on my knee, and instantly realized what happened. That leaf that I thought I heard wasn't a leaf, but a bee, hitting inside my window and falling into my car. It fell to the ground and crawled up my left pant leg and made it all the way to my knee before it stung me. With my left hand I grabbed a handful of pants and held the bee in place for the rest of the drive home. You haven't lived until you've been repeatedly stung by a bee that's trapped inside your pants while you're driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour. You can check for bats and bees and parasitic wasp larvae all you want, but they’ll still find a way into our clothes.

Example (and this story is 100% true): I’m driving home from work one day last summer. I’m on a major highway (I-95) and have my front windows down. There’s a slight breeze blowing leaves across the road and I hear one of them actually hit the window (it sounded like a leaf crumpling) and I think nothing of it. A minute or two later I feel a stinging sensation on my left knee. Then I feel it again, and go to scratch my knee. I feel something inside my pants, on my knee, and instantly realized what happened.

That leaf that I thought I heard wasn’t a leaf, but a bee, hitting inside my window and falling into my car. It fell to the ground and crawled up my left pant leg and made it all the way to my knee before it stung me. With my left hand I grabbed a handful of pants and held the bee in place for the rest of the drive home.

You haven’t lived until you’ve been repeatedly stung by a bee that’s trapped inside your pants while you’re driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229134 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229134 why can't we GMO bats to inject the rabies vaccine? why can’t we GMO bats to inject the rabies vaccine?

]]> By: ben_c http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228627 ben_c Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228627 Norwich? That's where <i>I</i> live! I can confirm that I've never found a bat in any of my clothes, just so you know this doesn't happen to everyone in Norwich. Norwich? That’s where I live! I can confirm that I’ve never found a bat in any of my clothes, just so you know this doesn’t happen to everyone in Norwich.

]]> By: Bonnie http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229141 Bonnie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229141 You have no idea how many times I start my day just like that. You have no idea how many times I start my day just like that.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229143 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229143 na na na na na na na : ! http://fullmoonmasks.com/library/accessory-bra-bat.jpg na na na na na na na : !
http://fullmoonmasks.com/library/accessory-bra-bat.jpg

]]> By: Cpt. Tim http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228633 Cpt. Tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228633 I routinely find a specific cat in my underwear every morning. Its a weird cat. "You haven't lived until you've been repeatedly stung by a bee that's trapped inside your pants while you're driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour." how about being repeatedly stung in the armpit by a bee that's flown up your jacket sleeve on a motorcyle? I'm surprised i didn't shit myself. I routinely find a specific cat in my underwear every morning. Its a weird cat.

“You haven’t lived until you’ve been repeatedly stung by a bee that’s trapped inside your pants while you’re driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour.”

how about being repeatedly stung in the armpit by a bee that’s flown up your jacket sleeve on a motorcyle? I’m surprised i didn’t shit myself.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229147 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229147 this is juvenile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTO3S6tE4Qc this is juvenile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTO3S6tE4Qc

]]> By: neuralien http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228639 neuralien Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228639 @Munkcy: "<i>You haven't lived until you've been repeatedly stung by a bee that's trapped inside your pants while you're driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour.</i>" I nominate this for Quote of the day. =) @Munkcy:

“You haven’t lived until you’ve been repeatedly stung by a bee that’s trapped inside your pants while you’re driving 70+ miles per hour on a major highway during rush hour.”

I nominate this for Quote of the day. =)

]]> By: techdeviant http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228646 techdeviant Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228646 @ cpt tim Me too! Except mine is 23 pounds and bites me everytime I try to take my underwear away. I'm also pretty sure I couldn't wear him my clothes for half a work day and not notice him in there. @ cpt tim

Me too! Except mine is 23 pounds and bites me everytime I try to take my underwear away. I’m also pretty sure I couldn’t wear him my clothes for half a work day and not notice him in there.

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228647 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228647 I wonder what happened to the bat. If that happened in America they'd absolutely have to kill it, if it even scratched her, because bats can carry rabies. But in the UK, IIUC, they don't have rabies, so they might have more options. The article doesn't say. Probably not a good sign. Lesson I'll draw from this is never, ever dry clothes outside on a line. Of course, where I live they'd be stolen while still wet anyway. Munkcy 7: why didn't you just mash it, instead of trapping it against your leg? I wonder what happened to the bat. If that happened in America they’d absolutely have to kill it, if it even scratched her, because bats can carry rabies. But in the UK, IIUC, they don’t have rabies, so they might have more options.

The article doesn’t say. Probably not a good sign.

Lesson I’ll draw from this is never, ever dry clothes outside on a line. Of course, where I live they’d be stolen while still wet anyway.

Munkcy 7: why didn’t you just mash it, instead of trapping it against your leg?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228648 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228648 FYI - bees can't repeatedly sting you, only the one time. When they sting, their stinger sticks into you and pulls out of their body, and then they die. Wasps and yellowjackets and the like, however, can sting you over and over and over and...<p>My favorite time being stung was standing high up on a 14-foot ladder with a mud wasp trapped underneath my glasses repeatedly stinging my eyebrow. <p>I'm really glad it didn't sting my eyeball, though! FYI – bees can’t repeatedly sting you, only the one time. When they sting, their stinger sticks into you and pulls out of their body, and then they die. Wasps and yellowjackets and the like, however, can sting you over and over and over and…

My favorite time being stung was standing high up on a 14-foot ladder with a mud wasp trapped underneath my glasses repeatedly stinging my eyebrow.

I’m really glad it didn’t sting my eyeball, though!

]]> By: Jason McIntosh http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228652 Jason McIntosh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228652 The viral marketing campaign for this movie is clearly getting out of hand. The viral marketing campaign for this movie is clearly getting out of hand.

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228654 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228654 It was actually a titmouse. It was actually a titmouse.

]]> By: Billegible http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228657 Billegible Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228657 Xopher, the article says they released it into the gardens by the hotel. Xopher, the article says they released it into the gardens by the hotel.

]]> By: Munkcy http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228662 Munkcy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228662 @ Cpt. Tim #9: Wow, that's definitely more intense and dangerous. How the heck did you keep control of the bike? @ Xopher #12: I actually didn't pin it against my leg. I kind grabbed a fistful of pants in the knee-area and inside that was the bee. So it couldn't reach my knee anymore but it also couldn't get to my hand either. I'm not sure why I didn't just crush it. Slipped my mind I guess. Once I got home, I got out of my car and just stomped my leg down on the ground and the bee feel right out of my pants. @ Cpt. Tim #9: Wow, that’s definitely more intense and dangerous. How the heck did you keep control of the bike?

@ Xopher #12: I actually didn’t pin it against my leg. I kind grabbed a fistful of pants in the knee-area and inside that was the bee. So it couldn’t reach my knee anymore but it also couldn’t get to my hand either. I’m not sure why I didn’t just crush it. Slipped my mind I guess. Once I got home, I got out of my car and just stomped my leg down on the ground and the bee feel right out of my pants.

]]> By: Batty Den http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228919 Batty Den Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228919 A bat the size of her hand wouldn't be a baby bat unless it's a flying fox. Not very likely for England. <a href="http://battyden.net/pictures/bek1.jpg/">This is a baby bat.</a> (One of my rescues) Even the largest UK species wouldn't have a pup much larger than that. I know rabies isn't in the UK, or here in Australia, but there is disease called lyssavirus that is found in bat populations world-wide -- even in the UK. A Scottish carer died from it a few years ago. Lyssa is related to rabies but is nowhere near as virulent or common*, so a bat's bite or scratch in the UK doesn't have the same inoculation urgency as in other parts of the world. Lyssa doesn't affect bats but it is lethal in humans after the symptoms show. *0.01% of bats carry rabies, and lyssa is found in an even small percentage. But you have to treat all bats as carriers. Bugger. A bat the size of her hand wouldn’t be a baby bat unless it’s a flying fox. Not very likely for England. This is a baby bat. (One of my rescues) Even the largest UK species wouldn’t have a pup much larger than that.

I know rabies isn’t in the UK, or here in Australia, but there is disease called lyssavirus that is found in bat populations world-wide — even in the UK. A Scottish carer died from it a few years ago. Lyssa is related to rabies but is nowhere near as virulent or common*, so a bat’s bite or scratch in the UK doesn’t have the same inoculation urgency as in other parts of the world. Lyssa doesn’t affect bats but it is lethal in humans after the symptoms show.

*0.01% of bats carry rabies, and lyssa is found in an even small percentage. But you have to treat all bats as carriers. Bugger.

]]> By: bubbleman http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228665 bubbleman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228665 I will personally check bras for bats and other critters for a nominal fee. It should only take a few minutes each morning. My kiosk is located outside the subway station. Contact me for franchise opportunities. I will personally check bras for bats and other critters for a nominal fee. It should only take a few minutes each morning. My kiosk is located outside the subway station. Contact me for franchise opportunities.

]]> By: ThreeFJeff http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228669 ThreeFJeff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228669 @Cpt Tim: I got a yellow jacket (sure as !@#$@! felt like one) down my shirt on my bike when I was sprinting to the train once. It happened as I was coming up to an intersection, and didn't have thought cycles to spare thinking about it. I got stung four times in the gut before I figured it out and swatted the thing. That was really entertaining. Also: WE CAN'T DRY OUR CLOTHES HERE! THIS IS BAT COUNTRY! @Cpt Tim: I got a yellow jacket (sure as !@#$@! felt like one) down my shirt on my bike when I was sprinting to the train once. It happened as I was coming up to an intersection, and didn’t have thought cycles to spare thinking about it. I got stung four times in the gut before I figured it out and swatted the thing. That was really entertaining.

Also: WE CAN’T DRY OUR CLOTHES HERE! THIS IS BAT COUNTRY!

]]> By: Nollie http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228671 Nollie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228671 @12 Taken directly from the article: "The teenager's general manager freed the bat in the hotel garden." The bat got away! Yay! (There is something very Beatrix Potter about this, al la 2 bad mice) @12

Taken directly from the article:

“The teenager’s general manager freed the bat in the hotel garden.”

The bat got away! Yay! (There is something very Beatrix Potter about this, al la 2 bad mice)

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228928 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228928 fox? Inspector Fox: Right. Hold it there. Man and Spreaders: What? Inspector Fox: Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Inspector Fox of the Light Entertainment Police, Comedy Division, Special Flying Squad. Man and Spreaders: Flying Fox of the Yard. Inspector Fox: Shut up! (he hits the man with a truncheon) Man: Ooooh? Spreaders: No, no, no - Waagh! Inspector Fox: And you. (he hits Spreaders) Spreaders: Waagh! Inspector Fox: He's good! You could learn a thing or two from him. Right now you two me old beauties, you are nicked. Man: What for? Inspector Fox: I'm charging you two under Section 21 of the Strange Sketch Act. Man: The what? fox?

Inspector Fox: Right. Hold it there.

Man and Spreaders: What?

Inspector Fox: Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Inspector Fox of the Light Entertainment Police, Comedy Division, Special Flying Squad.

Man and Spreaders: Flying Fox of the Yard.

Inspector Fox: Shut up! (he hits the man with a truncheon)

Man: Ooooh?

Spreaders: No, no, no – Waagh!

Inspector Fox: And you. (he hits Spreaders)

Spreaders: Waagh!

Inspector Fox: He’s good! You could learn a thing or two from him. Right now you two me old beauties, you are nicked.

Man: What for?

Inspector Fox: I’m charging you two under Section 21 of the Strange Sketch Act.

Man: The what?

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-229699 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-229699 Oh sometime it feels like I too have an animal in my pants... Oh sometime it feels like I too have an animal in my pants…

]]> By: jimbuck http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228677 jimbuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228677 My friend's girlfriend, one night, went to the bathroom and found a bat doing laps. She screamed out, of course, and my friend's roommate killed it with a kitchen knife. My friend’s girlfriend, one night, went to the bathroom and found a bat doing laps. She screamed out, of course, and my friend’s roommate killed it with a kitchen knife.

]]> By: SamF http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228679 SamF Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228679 It sounds like what we need is a bra-bat detection center. I will get on that right away. Ladies, come see me and I will inspect your bras and any other articles of clothing that you happen to be wearing for bats, rats, cats, and any other small creatures or insects. I am happy to provide this service at no cost to you, in the interest of keeping ladies' undergarments completely bat-free. It sounds like what we need is a bra-bat detection center. I will get on that right away. Ladies, come see me and I will inspect your bras and any other articles of clothing that you happen to be wearing for bats, rats, cats, and any other small creatures or insects. I am happy to provide this service at no cost to you, in the interest of keeping ladies’ undergarments completely bat-free.

]]> By: Tits McGee http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228685 Tits McGee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228685 No. Just <i>no.</i> No. Just no.

]]> By: Nelson.C http://boingboing.net/2008/07/08/teen-discovers-bat-h.html#comment-228690 Nelson.C Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-228690 Bats are protected species in the UK, so releasing it was probably the best option. Hopefully it was old enough to look after itself, but releasing it near the original washing line would probably have been better. Bats are protected species in the UK, so releasing it was probably the best option. Hopefully it was old enough to look after itself, but releasing it near the original washing line would probably have been better.

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