A couple of weeks ago I returned from a week long trip to upstate New York to an empty house. I threw down my stuff grabbed some food and settled in.
I recently I got into Lost, which was a mistake cause now I'm hooked. I spent most of the evening relaxing watching Lost on Netflix and around 11:30pm
I felt something wiz by my ear. Ever since it got warmer moths and other insects like to invade my space and usually I send them a message with a rolled up newspaper or magazine.
I bend over to grab and old Metro paper off the floor to look up and realize, "I'm gonna need a bigger newspaper."
Circling above my head in my room was a bat with about over a foot wing span. To give you the layout my room is really two rooms divided in the center by a wall and door.
Having a slight freak out I dash into the other half of the room to get a good look at the flying rodent who decided to invade my space.
While standing near the door to exit my room, the bat made a b-line for me forcing me to duck. The bat took to the air again to circle the room while I made an exit.
I stood outside the door a while attempting to comprehend what just happened. "Really!? A bat!? There's a bat in my room!?"
My original thought was to recruit a friend to capture the invader, but that didn't work out. Also thought about animal control as a back up, but the AC of Lynn doesn't do removal.
It was gonna be a one-on-one fight or so I thought. When I entered my room there was no sign of the bat, in fact I never saw it again. I did, however, spend the rest of the weekend
tearing my room apart looking for a possible dead bat or droppings, since some sites around the net say bats sometimes enter homes when they're about to die.
You're probably wondering, "how did the bat get into your room in the first place?" Well there's a decent size hole in the screen of my window and this is how he got in and eventually exited.
The whole ordeal left me exhausted for two reasons, 1) it was a freaking bat! and 2) the day after going through every nook and cranny for the thing was a pain.
The hole in my screen was temporarily patched until I find a more permanent solution.
Since I have not seen hide nor hair, nor smell of the furry flyer and the patched hole has also kept out the moths who are attracted the light of my room late at night.
The funniest thing about the whole ordeal wasn't that I had could've contracted rabbies but the song that was stuck in my head for the next 4 days. Check the video below to see what I'm talking about.
Will Ferrell,