It's a bat, man: prankster releases actual bat at The Batman screening

[pesco]

Originally published at: It's a bat, man: prankster releases actual bat at The Batman screening | Boing Boing

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[mcsnee]

What a jerk. The poor thing was probably terrified.

[Brainspore]

Just be thankful this jerk didn’t get the same idea for Black Panther.

[Otherbrother]

Ditto The Wolverine.

[Gyrofrog]

In Austin, Texas on Friday, a prankster released a live bat during a showing of The Batman.

The article says the manager believes this is what happened – Are they sure it was a prank? Austin has a huge (largest?) urban bat colony. It’s not out-of-the-question that local fauna might find its way into a building…

When we used to watch movies in Hogg Auditorium* at UT, more often than not there was at least one bat buzzing the screen. (This went particularly well with Nosferatu the Vampyre.)

*(but, granted, I don’t remember this happening anywhere else)

[anothernewbbaccount]

@mcsnee

What a jerk.

In the UK that may well have resulted in a prosecution. Bats are a protected species here.

[generic_name]

Where the hell is Ozzy when you need him?

[Bfarnn]

Strange Brew - moths in the theatre

[FGD135]

Beauty.

[knoxblox]

Having lived in Austin for several years, I find this plausible. Our pedicab company had a bat get into one our storage units once.

ETA: I also used to work with a guy in Austin whose wife worked at the Bat Refuge there. Good person.

[Mangochin]

@Gyrofrog

Austin has a huge (largest?) urban bat colony. It’s not out-of-the-question that local fauna might find its way into a building…

I really hope that is the case and not animal abuse.

I am totally smitten with the baby bat rescue videos.

Bat Orphans

Baby Bat Burritos

[Mangochin]

Banned from Austin.

[_osivot]

[timd]

@pesco

a prankster

Here’s a bat to use on pranksters who abuse bats

[generic_name]

@Mangochin

Banned from Austin.

I thought it was San Antonio, after he “marked the Alamo with his scent.”

[HMSGoose]

Someone had a strange takeaway from the Schitt’s Creek finale…

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[atteSmythe]

@Gyrofrog

Hogg Auditorium

Be thankful it wasn’t 30-50 feral hogs

[Mangochin]

You’re right. My bad.

[LutherBlisset]

Just FTR, these are fruitbats. Sub-order Yinpterochiroptera inside the Chiroptera. The path of those and the Yangochiroptera, i.e. the bats most people associate with the batman diverged maybe some 63 million years ago.

I, for one, don’t want to be with either in a closed room, unless I have proper PPE.

[atteSmythe]

I once found myself in a closed room with a bat! It fell down the chimney.

I then found myself in an open room with a bat, as it felt that flying laps around the ceiling was better than trying the newly opened windows.

Eventually, it tired and landed. When we grabbed it and got it over to one of the windows, my PPE consisted of a pair of salad tongs. (I think we threw out the salad tongs, as we’d never used them before and didn’t foresee needing to catch another bat with them)