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2006-06-28 Down Under

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-06-28 03:54|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One deep bush job that I had required using deisel fired lighting, which attracted thousands of bugs. It was fascinating to watch bats skillfully picking off flying insects at will. Bats are much more productive than the Oz brats who intimidate that useful creature.

Posted by Omaiting Clutch9925 2006-06-28 04:29|| 2006-06-28 04:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Much as I adore bats (if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to post links for plans to build properly researched bathouses), to me this falls under the "boys can't help being boys" heading. Not every mischievous bahaviour need be criminalized.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-28 05:36|| 2006-06-28 05:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait until Bruce Wayne learns about that, theses boys sure will remember the spanking to come.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-28 05:45|| 2006-06-28 05:45|| Front Page Top

#4 TW,
I heartily second that.

I pity the kids growing up in todays nanny state. If all of these laws were in place when I was growing up I'd prolly be locked up for life.

Posted by DanNY 2006-06-28 06:41|| 2006-06-28 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Much safer than the Marbles we used to fire with out home made "firecraker cannon" We found some embeded in the asphalt a block and a half away. Now the firecrackers are illegal mand necessity is the mother of invention.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-28 07:13|| 2006-06-28 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 ReRead please. Even accepting the natural immaturity of the english, these fellows are old enough to be in the army firing real cannons.

Posted by Skidmark 2006-06-28 07:38|| 2006-06-28 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 They must be friends of the dude with the spud gun.

Posted by Steve 2006-06-28 08:44|| 2006-06-28 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 This witch would croak if she knew what we used to do to crayfish. But not when I was 18. More like 12.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-28 08:49|| 2006-06-28 08:49|| Front Page Top

#9 The bats are just an excuse to make what they did sound worse. Hell, if there had been endangered crayfish in the park, they would have said the cannon was disturbing them.

If they were serious, they should have emphasized how such cannon can explode and cripple those who are firing it. The bats thing was just being PC.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-28 09:00|| 2006-06-28 09:00|| Front Page Top

#10 I love bats. When I was in Iraq I had a whole load of them living outside my room up in the cement fissures of our old iraqi barracks. I would have to time coming back at night and out the door in the morning for fear of walking through the lot of them coming to and fro from hunting excursions.

12 or 13 yr old kids I could see doing this. These 18 or 19 yr olds need to get a life. $300.00 & a letter seems fair to me. In the future these losers should find some girls to chase w/their "fruit bazooka".

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-28 09:11|| 2006-06-28 09:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Did you notice a funky smell comming from the area directly below the bats Broadhead? They are cute and usefull, but damn, those little bastards stink to high hell.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-28 09:33|| 2006-06-28 09:33|| Front Page Top

#12 despite their reputation of being able to use their sonar flawlessly the critters used to crash into us often enough when we would enter or exit tunnels.

it used to drive us...

/not really, we was already bats.

Posted by RD 2006-06-28 10:04|| 2006-06-28 10:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Skidmark, recent research shows that it takes to the age of 25 for the human brain to mature, giving up the poor impulse control of childhood. This was indeed a real, "Here, hold my beer!" activity -- but the boys I knew when I was that age were just as likely to do such things at eighteen as at fourteen, and at eighteen they had enough math and physics to make their little projects much more interesting. Admittedly we were East Coast university offspring (not one of the expensive ones, unfortunately, but the principle still holds), which means we were much slower to mature than even normal English-speaking kids, but still.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-28 10:51|| 2006-06-28 10:51|| Front Page Top

#14 My buds and I put hundreds of the stick match tips (no longer available) into a spent CO2 cartridge and launched it from a pipe.
It penetrated a house several blocks away, but left a smoke trail back to us. We scattered before gathering trajectory data.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-28 11:03|| 2006-06-28 11:03|| Front Page Top

#15 'jim, I just thought that was Iraq. ;)

RD, I would actually wear my kevlar upon entrance/exit of my hooch based on that very reason.

TW - my wife would claim up to age 33 for men :)

wx - ohio blue tips?

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-28 11:09|| 2006-06-28 11:09|| Front Page Top

#16 I love bats. Used to have some in my attic. We used to sit at dusk and watch them drop and fly. You could get a flashlight and watch them mass to make the drop out of the thin opening. They'd be all sleepy, yawing ....so cute. But yes, they stink peeyew! Finally had to put the one way net on the opening so they could get out but not back in.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-28 11:19|| 2006-06-28 11:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Rabid flying rats.

Posted by 6 2006-06-28 11:47|| 2006-06-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#18 Rabid flying rats.

Yeah, I'm won't be fooled anymore, I've seen "Cujo" and all.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-28 11:49|| 2006-06-28 11:49|| Front Page Top

#19 Bathouse links
homemade
the enthusiasts at Bat Conservation International
the pros

Finally, according to the BatCon.org FAQ page,

What are the odds that a sick bat will endanger my family with rabies?
Fewer than ten people in over 50 years have contracted rabies from North American bat species that commonly live in bat houses. Like all mammals, bats can contract rabies, though very few do (less than half of one percent). Unlike many other animals, even rabid bats rarely become aggressive. They quickly die from the disease, and outbreaks in their colonies are extremely rare.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-28 12:06|| 2006-06-28 12:06|| Front Page Top

#20 tw, could you post a few links? Wanted to build one for the new hacienda next year.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-06-28 12:51|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Lines one, two and three of my post #19 contain the links, Swamp Blondie. At least, that was my intention. Happy hammering!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-28 13:02|| 2006-06-28 13:02|| Front Page Top

#22 Thanks tw! My bad, got a slow connection here. By the time my comment registered, you already posted! ;)

Will look them up and start slapping them together early next year!

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-06-28 13:25|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#23 safer than a chupacabra!

Posted by Frank G 2006-06-28 15:48|| 2006-06-28 15:48|| Front Page Top

#24 big or small I really like most critters and bats are no exception that rule.

But there are certain critters that do BUGS me. For instance parasitic assholes that fly, like mosquitoes, biting flies, biting knats, kissing bugs, walipi tigers, and a number of other jungle unknowables that sucked the blood and then took off. Leaches aint much fun either but at least they haven't learned to fly...YET..

Although I've been nailed by bees, wasps, yellow jackets, scorpions, spiders, and various ants they don't bugs me so much... huummm.

It's the BLOOD SUCKERS [hummmm, Kofi Annan?] that hunt humans for their next meal that I despise!

recapulation: BATS are professional killers of bugs that suck blood and fly.

in conclusion: So Bats is kool and do Rule But should NEVER be confused with moon-bats!

Posted by RD 2006-06-28 16:31|| 2006-06-28 16:31|| Front Page Top

#25 A "fruit bazooka"? Nevermind using one, just saying that around here would get you in some serious trouble...

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-28 16:53|| 2006-06-28 16:53|| Front Page Top

#26 LOL tu, you might git put in the sink for that!

Posted by RD 2006-06-28 17:03|| 2006-06-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

#27 Hummmm..... Ima think TW is really Margaret Farquhar.

A friend of bats.

Posted by 6 2006-06-28 18:08|| 2006-06-28 18:08|| Front Page Top

#28 Someone mentioned bats in the attic. Sorry, but chase them away. Bats carry fleas which first breed in large numbers in attics and then move throughout the entire house.

Posted by Anginens Threreng8133 2006-06-28 23:27|| 2006-06-28 23:27|| Front Page Top

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