Posted on 05/03/2007 11:17:28 AM PDT by bedolido
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
moonbats?
Over here.....;-)
Bruce Wayne needs a new hideout.
They were informed of the bats but not the massive pile of guano? Brilliant!
What? ....they don’t use a “bat box”?
how did they weigh it? On a bat-room scale (I know reaching for a groaner... but couldn’t help myself)
Reminds me of 2 things.
One was a book about a secret weapon called the “Bat Bomb” in WWII. It was a fun read. One episode that I recall was that there were some idiot photographers who went into the bat cave to take pictures, against advice from the team. Everyone left them in there, and when they turned on the lights to take pictures, millions of bats defecated. They were covered in it.
Second thing it reminds me of is a scene in some western movie where Christian Slater said something like, “I’ve been to Gold [mining] towns, silver towns, heck even salt towns. But I ain’t never before been to a bat sh!t town.”
Was that R13 or R19 quano?
actually sprayed my puter with Dr Pepper on that one. Now where'd I put that scot towel?
You beat me you deviated prevert!
I remember hearing that Guano is actually worth money as one helluva fertilizer. I’ll bet the folks that cleaned up, cleaned up in more ways than one.
To haul, one must weigh....therefore I figure the truck hauled off 1 3/4 tons of the worst thing about having bats....bats***!
Heck I’d remove it for free and then sell it. Bat guano’s worth money.
I thought there was a market for that stuff. Series. Google “bat guano” fertilizer and see how many boutiques are selling it. Isn’t this just the kind of shi ... er, crap E-Bay was invented for?
I used to have bats in my attic until my local exterminator crawled in and ate them. Fairly competent snake, and he didn’t charge anything.
eeewwww... but very frugal and a smart move. How’d you get the snake out of the attic?
"It's an aphrodisiac. I swear."
Guano happens.
Oh, I know this one.
He sent a mongoose after the snake.
Then he sent a bear after the mongoose.
Now he’s stuck with a bear who set up shop and all bats are returning.
With just dim light through the gable vent, I first thought a piece of insulation or hose was in the gable, but on a closer look it was a fairly large snake devouring one of the bats. It was during daylight and the snake snuck up on the sleepers. He came in on his own and was gone the next time I went up in the attic. I decided not to interrupt him as he was doing me a favor. I haven’t had a bat problem since.
I have no idea how he got in the attic other than perhaps slithering up between the exterior and interior walls.
amazing
Talk about going batty...
Nah...moonbats live in Mommy's basement.
“bangs hand on head” You are right! :o)
Might have been a chicken snake. One of those scared the heck out of me when I walked in my shed one day, he was up on the rafters.
One of the chief uses for bat guano....is....c'mon fellers, look it up.
something I may have learned about in the past.
Sorry 'bout that.
Now he’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola people.
in case you wanted to know, the movie was young guns 2.
So what happened after they kicked Michael Moore out?
They knew about the bats when they bought the house. They should have figured out the rest. I don’t think they’re going to win.
Way back when, folks used to check out batcaves for the amount of nitrate in the soil on the cave bottom. If your footprints leveled out overnight, there was likely enough nitrate to mine, and convert to potassium nitrate, and gunpowder. We likely could never have run King George out of here, without the nitrates we got from batcaves.
Somehow, I think these are related.
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Needs charcoal and sulfur as well, iirc.
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