Bats and Lightning
Wow, what a strange night last night was! First of all, there was tons of lightning, but only about 3 drops of rain. It was so strange. The light show was awesome, though! Totally loved it.
Then later my cell phone rang, and it was my daughter. She was at Dave’s house (my son) and said, “What do you do with an injured bat?” I was like, “An injured bat!?”, to which she replied, “yeah, an injured bat”. First thing I said was to stay the hell away from it! Bats are notorious for carrying rabies ’round these parts, and then I told her to keep Dave’s dogs out of the yard and not to let them get near it. Then I asked her what was going on. She said that they had been in the house and heard a strange noise. She thought nothing of it, thinking it was just the water heater or something. It was, as she described, a squeaky noise. Dave got up and went out to the back yard to look around, and quickly came back in and said “There’s somethin’ messed up out there!”. LOL! He grabbed his big flashlight and they all (Dave, Callie and her b/f Darin) went out to see what it was. What they saw shocked them all — two bats on the ground beside his house! They’re not sure if they were fighting or what, but Dave told Callie it looked like one was chomping on the other. Anyway, the one doing the chomping flew away immediately; the second one just laid there, but when Dave would shine the light on it, it would start flapping its wings and making that funny squeaky noise. Somewhere along the line it got to a pipe running along the bottom of Dave’s house and starting hanging from it! LOL You know, like bats do. Dave slowly walked closer and shined his flashlight on it again, and that’s when it suddenly got pissed off and flew directly towards his head! LOL Scared the crap out of him! LOL! Oh man, I so wish I had been there to see that!
After the whole bat thing was over, another lightning show came along. Totally cool. It was truly a batty and beautiful night! 
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Batty and beautiful, hey!
When Craig was just 4 years old he had a fruit bat fly over and land straight on top of his head. The damn thing wrapped its wings right across the front of his face. You can imagine his screams!! I’m so glad Randall was able to get that bat off of him fast! I can remember Randall laughing. He was quite amused, but all I could say was, Get it off him, get it off! lol
This happened while were having lunch in a picnic ground outside some limestone caves in North Queensland. A place where fruit bats like to “hang-out.” Anyway, this overly friendly and very curious bat got way too close for comfort. I think it may have liked the look of Craig’s meat pie. LOL
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A bat chomping on another bat? That’s a first for me. Never knew there were cannibalistic bats out there .. LOL! I’d have just freaked out and bolted the hell out of there.
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Debbie - OMG!! The visual, as you described it, is HILARIOUS!! I’m sure it wasn’t funny to him at all, though! But oh man, that should’ve been put on video!
Nick - I know, huh. I’ve never heard of that happening, either. I’m sure it wasn’t really chomping away on its buddy — or sparring partner, as it were. LOL Dave didn’t get a real good look at them before the one flew away. The whole thing just makes me laugh.
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