I know many of you would not have freaked out about this, but after a nice day of work I get to my house at midnight to sit down with a cold beer and a mac n cheese. Suddenly out of nowhere I was attacked by a viscious bat flying at me at least 45 mph. Likely avoiding both side walls with his echosystem, this brought him inches away from me.
These attacks happened several times until I escaped to the upstairs bathroom. I finally got the nerve to venture out toward the front door when he attacked again with a ferocity I doubt has ever been seen. Armed now with a towel, I swatted at him repeatedly until he managed to coral me back to the bathroom. Again I tip toed back down and this time went out the back door and set off the alarm (from the other story and the stolen cell phone). The police came as I was unable to disarm the alarm in time with my remote control and the game warden was called. His advice was to sneak back to my bedroom and sleep overnight until a game warden could come over. For some reason I didn't like this advice.
I called a friend of mine who came over. We located the bat and trapped it with a broom. It was hanging high up on the wall. We managed to get him to the outside porch, garbage bag him after a few more broom swaps and box and tape him. The game warden was notified and I was to make the drop for rabies testing the following day. So, I brought the box to work only to find out that it was still alive.
The game warden said he would be over to get the bat, but he wondered how he would get the live bat out without being bit. This is the same game warden he advised me to go back in the house.
Anyway, the warden just stopped by to get the bat. I will let you know if he has rabies.
I suppose I am rather wimpy, but it scared the living hell out of me.
