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| Teenager finds baby bat in her bra | |
| 2008-07-09 | |
| A teenager was stunned to find that a baby bat had been curled up inside her bra for five hours - as she was wearing it. Abbie Hawkins, a hotel receptionist, thought her mobile phone was ringing when she felt vibrations coming from her clothes. But it was only the Bat Phone. But she later discovered the tiny creature tucked away in the padded pocket of her underwear. As staff and colleagues crowded around, Miss Hawkins, 19, produced the frightened bat, which was the size of her hand.
Miss Hawkins said she got dressed at 7:30am and arrived for work at the Holiday Inn Norwich North, near Norwich International Airport without noticing anything unusual. "When I was driving to work I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket," she said. Then the Bat It was not until her lunch break, at midday when she felt a strange movement inside her bra, which had been hanging on her washing line the previous night. "I plucked up the courage to investigate and I pulled out a little baby bat. I just lost my breath when I saw it and I did not know what it was at first," she said. The teenager's general manager freed the bat in the hotel garden. You are FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Go in Peace, Little One!! And carry good tidings from Holiday Inn to your fellow creatures. "I keep thinking how could I have not known it was there?" Miss Hawkins said. "I will certainly be checking my bras every morning from now on." Damned stowaways, anyway. Jaime Eastham, of the Bat Conservation Trust, said they had never heard of a bat being found in a bra before. But she said the animals roost anywhere that appears dark and safe. | |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #6 Then again there is the old joke about the guy who was transformed after being bitten by a bat. But it was just a fruit bat, so he became one of the living dead vegetarians. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-07-09 20:47 |
| #5 "You are FREEEEEEEEEEE" > Awwwww, I wanted to say it, + "Be sure to tell the other Bat Boyz the Babe scoop at the next Blood Bar social". He'll be a legend, he is. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-09 19:26 |
| #4 Abbie Hawkins, sounds like one of count dracula's brides. I wouldn't date that one without the required fang inspection. |
| Posted by: a yankee 2008-07-09 17:06 |
| #3 The only carriers of rabies believed to exist in the British Isles are bats. I sure hope Abbie has the bat tested for rabies, otherwise some months from now she could get her name in world news again. In the USA about 90% of all human rabies since 1980 has come from rabid bats. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-07-09 16:39 |
| #2 I work with a lady who didn't know she had a fish in her bathing suit until she went inside to take a shower. It had been in there for about 6 hours. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-07-09 15:22 |
| #1 not touching that last line; no sirree bob..... "Quick Robin, to the Batcave." |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-07-09 14:50 |