iembalm wrote:I was at summer Boy Scout camp once. It was late dusk getting well on to dark. A bunch of us were sitting at a picnic table. Our Senior Patrol Leader said, "Watch this!" He took out his cock and sprayed us silly.

FYP.








Sorry... really fucking bored.

gmilner wrote:I live near a large park that has somewhere between 500 and 1000 bats during the warm months (mostly little browns, some big browns, and possibly even some reds). I've heard that a lot of them roost in the eaves of buildings near the park.

Have you been to one of their "Night with the bats" events?

Where you sit in the middle of Prospect Park and they bring out the Bat Box?

Fuckin' incredible.

Tom wrote:

iembalm wrote:I was at summer Boy Scout camp once. It was late dusk getting well on to dark. A bunch of us were sitting at a picnic table. Our Senior Patrol Leader said, "Watch this!" He took out his cock and sprayed us silly.

FYP.








Sorry... really fucking bored.

No, no, no.....that's for an entirely different thread.

djimbe wrote: If you ever need to catch a bat that's in your house try this:

get a bath towel. Now, hold your elbows down to your sides, and bring your hands up by your shoulders. Drape the towel the long way across your hands. The bat will fly towards you then veer off. He is NOT going to fly into you! They are FAR superior at avoidence than you think. Let the bat fly towards you, but before it veers, toss the towel and bring your hands together in one motion. The towel kinda folds itself around the bat and drops to the ground. Gather it up and shake it out outside. No bat in house. No dead bat. No bitten human. Nice work...

I could have used this trick a few weeks ago at the cabin. Had a bat fly in the door when I took the dogs out in the middle of the night. Didn't notice it at first, but when I got back in bed my girlfriend noticed something swooping around the room. Managed, after a few minutes, to get it to swoop on the back porch, and shut the door behind it. Then went around the outside of the cabin, and opened the outside porch door, and it flew out after a minute or so.

i work at a barracks and had to rescue a brown long-eared bat which had got stuck in an office - soooo cute. tried to get it to have a little drink and fly off under it's own steam but he was too far gone. he died the next day. buried him in my garden and a flower sprouted over his grave about a week later - suspect the bat was a buddhist.

apparently it's a bad year for bats in the UK as weather conditions have reduced their ability to feed. the result is starvation for many and the babies being abandoned en mass - nowt you can do about it in the short term, but the suggestion is climate change may be resonsible.

i've organised local experts to do a survey of the whole site tomorrow, which should be fun. i suspect we'll find the little beasties in some buildings scheduled for demolition (a £5 million project) - under UK law that'll be shelved unless mitigation can be achieved. the potential for lots of military types going schiz over this fills me with joy.

behold the power of the bat!