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EasyToForget

2010-03-12 08:47:38 PM

Cocaine's a helluva drug.

beanx

2010-03-12 08:49:06 PM

that acutally kinda blows a LAWT because bats eat lots of bugs, and well, bugs eat...US.

:( sad bat is sad....

Ed Finnerty

2010-03-12 08:52:01 PM

They forgot to brushie.

wildsnowllama

2010-03-12 08:52:50 PM

experimental

Back to the drawing board.

ProdigalSigh

2010-03-12 08:55:17 PM

WHAT?

/hot

DBLWide

2010-03-12 08:56:21 PM

/hawt

Rat

2010-03-12 08:58:05 PM

They should've used Congress Avenue Bridge bats seeing as its The Nat'l Zoo near Congress and all.

© viva la mexican freetail!!!

Aufdie

2010-03-12 09:00:45 PM

I don't understand why mesh fencing with holes too big kills bats. I also do not understand how to hold a bat to avoid hurting it or stabbing myself with a needle. That is why I'm not a bat expert, the zoo should have listened to their expert rather then letting some idiot with a vet degree just make stuff the fark up.

/bonus points for acting like they expected dead bats

ColonelCathcart

2010-03-12 09:04:53 PM

/+1 Internets to subby

irgunner

2010-03-12 09:11:17 PM

Wow. I got half way through the article before I made the connection. I need sleep.

Larger Than Marge

2010-03-12 09:13:03 PM

I guess someone decided to turn off the flashlight halfway through.

/obscure?

rppp01a

2010-03-12 09:17:46 PM

So ... the experiment failed?

brightestfell

2010-03-12 09:32:47 PM

SharkInfested

2010-03-12 09:44:11 PM

good. Because they would probably end up like the black squirrels
Link (new window)
and invade my neighborhood (live directly across Conn Ave from main Zoo entrance). And than the overly fortified uphill challenged Real Americans (fat people from the mid-west)who feed the squirrels and such and then twaddle off would leave me with another species that tries to break into my apartment.

Yes, I know I'm going to get shiat for the "black squirrels" but the farkers chew through window screen and invade like nobodies business

FriarReb98

2010-03-12 09:53:53 PM

\oblig

CaesarSneezy

2010-03-12 10:04:08 PM

Batmurdered?

astrotri

2010-03-12 10:15:10 PM

died as a result of "...ignorance and incompetence." Ouch. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

Tillmaster

2010-03-12 10:31:16 PM

Very sad. We're losing bats and amphibians - both on our side in the war against really annoying things.

Regnad Kcin

2010-03-12 10:39:32 PM

This time last year, I had a bat living in my bathroom. ("Bat"-room, we called it. Get it?) His name was Echo and we kept him in a cage there all winter. Sometimes bats get un-hibernated in the wintertime and they starve to death. My wife is a biologist who studied bats for her master's degree and she knew how to take care of him. We fed him mealworms and other things all winter and finally let him go when the weather got warm enough.

And that's my bat story.

studebaker hoch

2010-03-12 10:57:35 PM

Not sure if serious cat.

End_Of_Line

2010-03-12 11:01:09 PM

We have bats that live in the shutters of our house. Last summer one of our cats decided to wait for them on the porch. You see when they would fly out they would be very low to the porch. The little bastard killed at least three of them. I had never wanted to kill a cat before I met this one.

/I know, I know, cool story.
//Loves bats

heywood-jablome

2010-03-12 11:22:58 PM

heywood-jablome

2010-03-12 11:27:24 PM

vabeard

2010-03-12 11:29:41 PM

ANOTHER link on FARK mentioning my hometown, Front Royal!

Day_Old_Dutchie

2010-03-12 11:46:40 PM

Zero!

ZERO BATS!

Hahahahahaha!

SinPoker

2010-03-12 11:50:47 PM

Came for brushie brushie, leaving satisfied.

harrich

2010-03-13 12:23:16 AM

Day_Old_Dutchie: Zero!

ZERO BATS!

Hahahahahaha!
Best. Post. Ever.

craxyd

2010-03-13 12:48:58 AM

+5 to Zatoichi X for the hot chick and early Baturday awws

+3 to heywood-jablome for the kewl pics

kiwichan

2010-03-13 01:22:29 AM

ironrat

2010-03-13 01:31:50 AM

So ugly it's cute.

farked3ways2sunday

2010-03-13 01:53:54 AM

Wanted for questioning.

Skwidd

2010-03-13 04:40:49 AM

i am now a fan of baby bats. That is all.

averagejoe42

2010-03-13 05:08:26 AM

2010-03-13 07:29:10 AM

Poor bats :( the National Zoo sucks, they'd be better off in Omaha fer cryin out loud. (no, seriously, they would!)

Jon iz teh kewl

2010-03-13 08:09:02 AM

This is no longer bat country :(

Ow My Balls

2010-03-13 08:21:16 AM

Bridges, magnets, swords and dead ducklike dragons are safe everywhere...

cryinoutloud

2010-03-13 10:29:35 AM

This reminds me of the story on Fark about a guy who had 700 turtles on his property, something like that, and was raising them and taking care of them. He'd had them for years, but suddenly the state came in and told him that he didn't have the right permits to keep that many turtles or some damn thing. They took all the turtles and turned them over to the state wildlife people.

Well, the guy sued and by the time the case had made its way through the courts, all but about 10 of his turtles were dead. And some of them were rare species. The wildlife people didn't know how to take care of them and refused to let anyone else come in who did know.

cryinoutloud

2010-03-13 10:33:13 AM

Ah, here it is. I got a lot of the details wrong, but this is the original story.

Turtle Guy (new window)

MBA Whore

2010-03-13 11:41:06 AM

We can't stop here. This is bat country!

/ oblig

MeanJean

2010-03-13 12:32:41 PM

BATURDAY!

glassgrl

2010-03-13 04:56:35 PM

SharkInfested: good. Because they would probably end up like the black squirrels
Link (new window)
and invade my neighborhood (live directly across Conn Ave from main Zoo entrance). And than the overly fortified uphill challenged Real Americans (fat people from the mid-west)who feed the squirrels and such and then twaddle off would leave me with another species that tries to break into my apartment.

Yes, I know I'm going to get shiat for the "black squirrels" but the farkers chew through window screen and invade like nobodies business

That was really interesting, thanks for the linkie

craxyd

2010-03-13 05:04:49 PM

OK, stupid question.
What's with the brushie, brushie, brushie thing?

Ragnarok2kx

2010-03-13 05:06:34 PM

Came for the Zubat reference.
Left pleased

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