Originally published at: Women who rented an Airbnb "castle" were attacked and bitten by bats | Boing Boing
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The bats got entangled in some of the women’s hair, some were struck by the creatures and others were bitten, the complaint said.
Yeah, bullshit.
As an immediate relative of someone who has studied bats for over 40 years, I can say with certainty: they don’t ‘strike’, they don’t get stuck in your hair, and they don’t attack you.
Fly around you? Sure. But you’re going to have to get aggressively up in their shit to the point of grabbing them to get them to bite you.
I totally get being pissed that your AirBNB vacation took a left turn when you found out you were sharing a roof with a bat colony - and yeah, the cleanliness is a definite issue - but don’t blame an animal for existing in the same space as you and then fucking lie to wrongly villainize them in an attempt to make you seem like more of a victim.
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I have occasionally had a bat flying around the inside of the cottage; once you’ve been woken up at 1:00 a.m. by the unmistakable “fwoop fwoop” of bat wings, you never forget. Once, one of the cats caught the bat in the pitch dark, within about 30 seconds of its entry into the room. He was a good hunter.
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Well that sounds like a party
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Or a villain origin story.
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Unless, of course, if bat had rabies.
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It could be worse…
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Yep. “Entangled” in hair is a bit of a tell.
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Are we sure this wasn’t a group of vampires attacking some old ladies?
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“It’s a feature!”
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Yes. I had this happen once too. In my case I closed a window that was usually open and the bats had been using as egress/ingress, makes me wonder if the guests at this Airbnb did something similar, and the bats had to find another way outside to feed.
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What part of “castle” did they not understand?
You want a castle, it comes with bats. I don’t make the rules.
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