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I rescued a lesser long-eared bat from a beer bottle in april 2001. I posted the rescue diary to alt.callahans and alt.lifestyle.furry, as I always do, and saved the files and photos for eventual html'ing on my homepage.
The Daily Liberal contacted me and did a story about Wort and his adventures. All the people around town know me as "That bloke who found a bat in a beer bottle." I thought nothing more of it.
In August Jeanne posted this to me in a.c:
"I subscribe to a Yahoo group called "Gotta have Jokes" where I get a
selection of strange and unusual messages. Many are "news of the
wierd" type things. Imagine my surprise when I got this one!
---------- Brew-Loving Bat Trapped in Beer Bottle ----------
BROCKLEHURST, New South Wales - Too much alcohol will make
anyone batty, but what do bats get when they are drunk? One
poor little creature became intoxicated after becoming trap-
ped in a beer bottle in Australia. He must have had one heck
of a hangover because he spent a week recovering from the
ordeal in the care of a local vet. No one knows why the bat
chose to go into the bottle in the first place. According to
Dennis Whitton, who helped take care of the bat, "It's not
like beer is a natural part of a bat's diet. I have to say
a beer bottle is the strange
and it DID cut off like this at the end. Still, I thought it
interesting that one of ours' story is making the rounds.."
Jeanne
They got a few details wrong. Only one of the locale vets is interested in native animals, and even he won't touch bats.
While playing the Google Me-me game searching for my name, I came across the Heart Of THe Valley Hombrewers newsletter, which had the following under the heading "More Australian Beer Stories" :
Brew-Loving Bat Trapped in Beer Bottle
BROCKLEHURST, New South Wales
Too much alcohol will make anyone batty, but what do bats get when they are drunk? One poor little creature became intoxicated after becoming trapped in a beer bottle in Australia. He must have had one heck of a hangover because he spent a week recovering from the ordeal in the care of a local vet. No one knows why the bat chose to go into the bottle in the first place. According to Dennis Whitton, who helped take care of the bat, "It's not like beer is a natural part of a bat's diet.
And the Norwegian newspaper had this to say about the flaggermus:
I en hel uke måtte Dennis Whitton i New South Wales i Australia være sykepleier for en flaggermus som hadde gått på fylla i en ølflaske.
- Jeg har vært med å fjerne flaggermus før, så jeg kjenner litt til typen. Men det er nytt for meg at øl skulle inngå som en del av dietten deres, sier Whitton til Daily Liberal.
Flaggermusen hører til en insektspisende familie med små individer som bare er ute om natten. At den ikke var noen dreven dranker kom tydelig fram av formen.
- Han brukte en hel uke på å komme seg etter fyllekula. Han spiste godt, men aller mest var han forferdelig tørst, stakkar.
I henhold til dyrevernloven ble flaggermusen sluppet ut igjen der fra der hvor den ble funnet.
It seems like they picked up the truncated News Of The Weird article which was derived from the original Daily Liberal article.
So here's The Real Story:
( Read more... )
The Daily Liberal contacted me and did a story about Wort and his adventures. All the people around town know me as "That bloke who found a bat in a beer bottle." I thought nothing more of it.
In August Jeanne posted this to me in a.c:
"I subscribe to a Yahoo group called "Gotta have Jokes" where I get a
selection of strange and unusual messages. Many are "news of the
wierd" type things. Imagine my surprise when I got this one!
---------- Brew-Loving Bat Trapped in Beer Bottle ----------
BROCKLEHURST, New South Wales - Too much alcohol will make
anyone batty, but what do bats get when they are drunk? One
poor little creature became intoxicated after becoming trap-
ped in a beer bottle in Australia. He must have had one heck
of a hangover because he spent a week recovering from the
ordeal in the care of a local vet. No one knows why the bat
chose to go into the bottle in the first place. According to
Dennis Whitton, who helped take care of the bat, "It's not
like beer is a natural part of a bat's diet. I have to say
a beer bottle is the strange
and it DID cut off like this at the end. Still, I thought it
interesting that one of ours' story is making the rounds.."
Jeanne
They got a few details wrong. Only one of the locale vets is interested in native animals, and even he won't touch bats.
While playing the Google Me-me game searching for my name, I came across the Heart Of THe Valley Hombrewers newsletter, which had the following under the heading "More Australian Beer Stories" :
Brew-Loving Bat Trapped in Beer Bottle
BROCKLEHURST, New South Wales
Too much alcohol will make anyone batty, but what do bats get when they are drunk? One poor little creature became intoxicated after becoming trapped in a beer bottle in Australia. He must have had one heck of a hangover because he spent a week recovering from the ordeal in the care of a local vet. No one knows why the bat chose to go into the bottle in the first place. According to Dennis Whitton, who helped take care of the bat, "It's not like beer is a natural part of a bat's diet.
And the Norwegian newspaper had this to say about the flaggermus:
I en hel uke måtte Dennis Whitton i New South Wales i Australia være sykepleier for en flaggermus som hadde gått på fylla i en ølflaske.
- Jeg har vært med å fjerne flaggermus før, så jeg kjenner litt til typen. Men det er nytt for meg at øl skulle inngå som en del av dietten deres, sier Whitton til Daily Liberal.
Flaggermusen hører til en insektspisende familie med små individer som bare er ute om natten. At den ikke var noen dreven dranker kom tydelig fram av formen.
- Han brukte en hel uke på å komme seg etter fyllekula. Han spiste godt, men aller mest var han forferdelig tørst, stakkar.
I henhold til dyrevernloven ble flaggermusen sluppet ut igjen der fra der hvor den ble funnet.
It seems like they picked up the truncated News Of The Weird article which was derived from the original Daily Liberal article.
So here's The Real Story:
( Read more... )
