Nice try, but I hear you were caught in the act.
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Posted on 08/03/2005 9:10:25 AM PDT by Cowman
Girl battles flying bat!
By:De Anna Sheffield
Seminole, Florida -- Last Friday night in Seminole, 17-year-old Teresa Shields was heading home after work, when she got a strange surprise.
Teresa Shields, bitten by bat "I was driving down the street, and something flew in my window, I heard it come through, and it landed in the backseat. I wasn't sure, I thought a little kid threw something plastic, because it (the object) looked brown and plastic. I turned on the light, I reached back and it hissed. I said, oh my goodness! I dropped it. It spread its wings out and I saw it was a bat!"
The bat bit her between her fingers, and as she headed home, she called her parents on her cell phone. Her dad, who is a doctor, knew they had to save the bat to have it tested for rabies.
Dr. Stephen Shields, daughter bitten by bat "I opened the passenger door and it was in the backseat, I had a broom in my hand. I was anticipating it might fly out, so I was trying to pin it before it got out. So I pinned it on the seat and swept it out. Momma was on hand with a Tupperware piece and trapped it in the yard."
The battle with the bat ended, and luckily Teresa's wound didn't break through the skin; she's doing just fine. Except for the fact that she has a new nickname--BatGirl!
De Anna Sheffield, Tampa Bay's 10 News
Did they leave their victims coffee and sandwiches like the Red Cross does?
My son was at camp when the couselor woke up with a bat on his bed. Everyone in the cabin got rabies shots as a precaution as sometimes you don't know if you have been bitten because the bites can be as small as a mosquito bite. The shots were no big deal.
Agreed,
from what I gather, the saliva can carry rabies and enter through mucous membranes or microscopic skin tears.
So better check the bat and be safe.
Well, we had a bat in the house five years ago - we opened the door and it flew out - but as we had been sleeping and did not know for sure we had NOT been bitten (you really cannot tell) we all five of us got- the bat was in there- rabies shots. VS had been sleeping on the living room couch and at first we thought just he would need them, but his doctor said, "All of you."
Mrs VS
All five of us had to have rabies shots a few years back. Insurance covered most, but it wasn't anything like $1800 apiece as I recall. Still pretty steep, though.
Mrs VS
Awesome bat ping - thanks!
Welcome!
This one's up your alley.....
get these in my house everyonce in a while. i have a 100+ year old house, which has a couple of openings aparently. i've gotten to the point where i can cut them out of the air first try with a ghurka.
They did slap on some "you saved my life by giving blood" sticker on the wound. :)
You're right about that. I've had three bats in my living room this summer. All separate episodes.
No ticks on them either after 3 frosty nights in the fall.
Nice try, but I hear you were caught in the act.
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LOL!
Uh oh..
Hubby won't kill anything.......not spiders, bees or bats.
I feel sorrier for the bat than the girl.
Much easier than cutting them out of the air with a gherkin...
No you don't. Rabies shots are painful. They caught the bat and tested it and fortunately she doesn't need one.
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