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Good story with bats right here:

I was 10 years old... i was in my room upstairs with the window open. I think I was reading a book for school and my bedroom light was "flickering"... no, it was a bat flying around!!! So I did a swandive on the floor with the phone and rolled under my bed and did the 550 trick (before the whole area code thing, u dial 550 and the last 4 digits of your phone, hang up, turn it back on, and hang up and it'll call back your house) . With that trick, the our phone rang, I picked it up and my mom picked up cuz she was downstairs (whole part of the trick) . So i told her about the bat in my room, and my dad which was bagged at the time with a dozen beers, comes up to my room with a broom. Now this was a funny site, he swung at it once almost falling over, he said "Steeerike 1" ... he swung again, missed, fell on the ground and said "Steeeeerike 2" ... third time, he swung, the bat was hit and died on the spot and he said "Hooooooome run" ... he then picked it up with a broom + dustpan, and flushed it down the toilet!!!!!

Next day we painted my room to make sure rabies wasnt anywhere lmao.