Posted on 05/05/2014 7:49:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog
It's a little over 30 years ago that Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat in front of a live audience.
Now it appears the little animals have had their revenge.
They could have scuppered his plans to convert a historic barn on his £5million estate into a two-bedroom home.
The former Black Sabbath singer’s representatives are understood to have met planning officers to discuss redevelopment of the 19th century building.
But brown long-eared bats have been discovered in the building.
Osbourne, now 65, bit the head off a bat while performing in America in 1982. He was said to be drunk. According to a variety of accounts he either thought the bat was a rubber replica – or dead.
Osbourne, who was once accused of flirting with Satanism, later recalled that the bat was alive and managed to bite him, requiring him to be treated for rabies. A source close to the Osbournes said: ‘The irony isn’t lost on Ozzy that karma has finally caught up with him.
‘The bats’ natural habitat is prevented from being damaged by law. The survey stated that any work to convert the barn would affect the bats, so it could take years for Ozzy’s plans to be approved.’
Osbourne and his wife Sharon, 61, a former X Factor judge, have lived at the Buckinghamshire mansion for almost 20 years and have been granted permission for many changes during that time.
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How can a barn be defined as a natural habitat for a bat?
Government saying what one can do and can't do on one's own property however, is worthy of urinating on.
/johnny
What idiot, in this day and age, applies for a permit to do anything like this without first hiring exterminators to cleans the property of anything remotely useable as an excuse to stop them?
I’m not a fan of metal rock, but his property is his property. If Osbourne can’t do with his barn as he chooses because of a bat infestation, he should burn it to the ground. Accidentally, of course. Principles apply to all men.
Ask the people in the Pacific Northwest about spotted owls and ‘old growth’ Kmart signs.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Ozzy should tell the bats to reimburse him for the property taxes he paid on the barn.
“How can a barn be defined as a natural habitat for a bat?”
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Soon they’ll want a condo.Pushy little things.
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The bats are “flying high again.”
And the Alamo is going to take a whiz on him some night.
What idiot, in this day and age, applies for a permit to do anything like this without first hiring exterminators to cleans the property of anything remotely useable as an excuse to stop them?
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I can name one example.
What about building them a bat-house. Aren’t they allowed to do that, and relocate the bats to that?
Point taken ;)
I can see the barn falling to an errant flame.
More than one way to skin a cat, especially on your own damned property...
*Wink* Right. Oops.
n January 20, 1982, at a concert in Des Moines, a bat wound up on stage, which had either been stuck in the rafters or thrown up there by a crazed fan. Osbourne bit it for a goof, thinking it was a rubber toy. He had to take a week of rabies shots. Despite a $25,000 donation later that year to the SPCA, the bat story grew to be an urban legend of its own - he didn’t bite the head off!
Who bit first?
Put a windmill on the property. Problem solved.
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