e-harmony has someone perfect for her.
Posted on 08/03/2005 9:10:25 AM PDT by Cowman
Girl battles flying bat!
By:De Anna Sheffield
Seminole, Florida -- Last Friday night in Seminole, 17-year-old Teresa Shields was heading home after work, when she got a strange surprise.
Teresa Shields, bitten by bat "I was driving down the street, and something flew in my window, I heard it come through, and it landed in the backseat. I wasn't sure, I thought a little kid threw something plastic, because it (the object) looked brown and plastic. I turned on the light, I reached back and it hissed. I said, oh my goodness! I dropped it. It spread its wings out and I saw it was a bat!"
The bat bit her between her fingers, and as she headed home, she called her parents on her cell phone. Her dad, who is a doctor, knew they had to save the bat to have it tested for rabies.
Dr. Stephen Shields, daughter bitten by bat "I opened the passenger door and it was in the backseat, I had a broom in my hand. I was anticipating it might fly out, so I was trying to pin it before it got out. So I pinned it on the seat and swept it out. Momma was on hand with a Tupperware piece and trapped it in the yard."
The battle with the bat ended, and luckily Teresa's wound didn't break through the skin; she's doing just fine. Except for the fact that she has a new nickname--BatGirl!
De Anna Sheffield, Tampa Bay's 10 News
I did a search and nothing came back so i don't think this was posted before.
I hope she gets a rabies shot ASAP.
Lovely Tupperware story for the next party.
didn't break the skin so she should be ok.
I think that is the reason they trapped the bat -- so they could test it. A tetanus shot wouldn't be a bad idea either.
e-harmony has someone perfect for her.
I know a kid who is having rabies shots because of a bat bite. It crawled up his pant leg and bit him. Fortunately, the shots are not the big deal they used to be.
Well, as long as it didn't get tangled up in her hair. ;^)
Definitely. Bat bites can be undetectable. A Jersey man carried a couple bats out of his house, wearing gloves, a few years back, and died of rabies. A bat that acted like that, I would get the rabies shots even if it tested negative.
Mrs VS
Bats gross me out. I prolly would have died from disgust...
Now I ask you, where oh where would we be without Tupperware!
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
Stupid headline. What do bats do, hop? It's like saying, "Boy catches swimming fish."
I miss Bat Boy. Last I heard he was tracking OBL somewhere in Pakistan.
I wonder if they made it burp when they put the top on. -- The Tupperware not the bat.
I didn't do it!
One night driving back from an airport I had my window opened only about two inches and a bat flew into my car. Fortunately, the bat didn't bite me, but kept flying around trying to get up my pant leg.
YES YOU DID!!
Last summer my wife and I saw a woman a few seats away get clocked by a flying bat at a Tigers game.
She lost the fight but kept the bat.
Of course he did.......
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