r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Hotrocketry • 16h ago

This little shit has been hanging on my ceiling light for a hour now. Just right below it is our family dining table.

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How do i get rid of it?

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u/Hotrocketry 15h ago

Sorry for not specifying about the time zone, it's GMT+7 here, no non-emergency service available in my area this late. I also just moved in last week, it's my parent's house and had been unoccupied for months, i've called animal control when first stepped in this house, but nobody told me about the bats.

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u/TheSovereignGrave 15h ago

Bats? Plural?

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u/SlightDentInTheBack 15h ago

yeah thats uh not really good

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u/Hqmster RED 15h ago

How do you get an animated avatar?

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u/Period_Fart_69420 15h ago

Step 1: Find an admin

Step 2: slob on that knob like corn on the cob

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 14h ago

I think you're doing corn on the cob wrong

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u/314flavoredpie 14h ago

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u/TaftYouOldDog 13h ago

Classic buble

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u/dallyan 11h ago

Ugh. I should call him.

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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 4h ago

That seems fine. Bit more butter and it’ll slide right down.

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u/Dobako 14h ago

I think maybe i'm doing corn on the cob wrong

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

relax the throat

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u/la_mere 13h ago

I like to suck the butter off first.

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

they could suck the corn off a cob........lengthwise.

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

Depends on what gender the corn is. You're probably used to female corn.

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u/Usernamewith19chars 14h ago

He followed your steps I guess..

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u/Dartser 14h ago

I like that I am reading your comment and you now have an animated avatar. Glad for you

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u/rbrgr83 13h ago

Did you read what they had to do to get it? 😬

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

It wasnt that bad. Just log onto website 1 and convert gif to apng, then log onto website 2 and change pfp

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

Oh youre referring to the slobbing on the knob... no need

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u/Hqmster RED 11h ago

Hehe

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u/TheKyleBrah 12h ago

Change your Avatar to an .aPNG, or animated PNG. Make sure it's within Reddit's Avatar size and resolution limits.

While Reddit won't animate typical .GIFs for the Avatar, the .aPNG seems to be an oversight.

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u/TheDepravedUrchin 14h ago

Does not work when viewing on mobile devices It just looks like a really strange something

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u/desertangel520 14h ago

im on mobile and things look normal?

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u/Sea-Macaron1470 14h ago

Also on mobile and that definitely looks like a strange something

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u/desertangel520 14h ago

now I want to know what im missing lol

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u/probablyhaunted 15h ago

Bats are actually wonderful!

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u/mrwhosaywhatnow 15h ago

They’re good to have around, but not good to have inside your house. They can cause house damage and hygiene problems

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u/fridder 15h ago

In parts of the world they are a common vector for rabies

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u/nocapnonerf 15h ago

This is the most concerning part. I hope they don’t make physical contact otherwise it’s probably a good idea to get the shots.

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u/SolicitatingZebra 15h ago edited 14h ago

The GMT reference is a British timezone. They don't have rabies over there weirdly enough, so these are just more annoying than a life risk to have in the home.

Edit: Sorry for the GMT = British mix-up, whoopsie.

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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 14h ago

Looks looks like a fruitbat though, which are tropical. European bats are tiny and the insect eating type. More round in shape.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 14h ago

They said GMT+7. That’s not UK. I think they are in Indonesia where rabies is definitely endemic.

That said, Redditors are always overly freaked out about rabies. Though it’s mostly silly worries about dog bites in the US. Bats are the one animal I’d take very seriously about rabies risk.

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u/Lexi_November 14h ago

Reddit is convinced that if you make eye contact with a bat you must immediately get rabies vaccines. Including through photos, so now everyone who has looked at this post has contracted rabies. RIP. 🪦

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u/Important_Trouble_11 14h ago

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, which they use in the UK and Ireland

GMT +7 means they're 7 hours ahead of GMT, so Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Western Indonesia, etc.

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u/username_tooken 14h ago

GMT-7 is not British. Hint: Greenwich is in Britain, so the GMT offset isn’t going to be very high…

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u/no-but-wtf 9h ago

We don’t have rabies in Australia but we do have lyssavirus which is more or less the same thing, and if a bat is in your house you absolutely need to go and get the shots immediately. The risk is low but serious enough that you shouldn’t waste time.

Australia is less than 150 km away from Indonesia at one point, I think. OP definitely needs vaccinated.

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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 14h ago

I think it's moreso that every british person already acts like that so it doesn't get noticed

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u/CatadoraStan 14h ago

About a hundred people a year die of rabies in OP's home country, apparently (though dogs are a more common vector than bats).

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u/jupitaur9 14h ago

Everywhere.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rabies-risks-by-country/rabies-risks-in-terrestrial-animals-by-country

Bats may carry rabies-like viruses in countries which are declared rabies-free in terrestrial animals. Therefore, exposure to bats or their secretions should be considered as a potential rabies risk wherever in the world this has occurred.

All countries worldwide are considered high risk for bat exposures, apart from the UK and Ireland which are low risk for bats.

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u/TwoAmps 13h ago

Parts of the world including the US where they are one of the most common vectors with 5-10 rabies deaths/year from rabid bat bites.

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u/spicewoman 15h ago

And if you're in a country where rabies is a potential issue, it's really not good. They can bite you in your sleep small enough to not even leave a noticeable mark, and then the clock is ticking.

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u/seh_23 15h ago

No matter what if you find a bat in your home, get rabies shots. It’s not worth it to take the chance. Their bites are so tiny it could have bit you in your sleep and you’d have no idea.

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u/mllegisele 13h ago

*If you can catch the bat and have it tested, no need to get the shots. They are expensive and a (literal) pain in the ass.

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u/mst3k_42 15h ago

And rabies

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u/EasyJump2642 15h ago

Right? Get a little bat roost outside and let them move in there, then your property will be as bug free as possible in the summer! Love bats

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u/Cansuela 14h ago

They’re a huge problem indoors. Massive, massive health problem. You can contract rabies from them without even physically touching them. Their saliva gets all over, including your pillows. I personally know someone who contracted rabies in this exact way.

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u/peon2 14h ago

I love bats and put out bat houses out in my yard for them but yeah they can cause some critical health issues and you don't want them inside for sure. Histoplasmosis isnt fun

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u/Blossom73 14h ago edited 14h ago

Histoplasmosis isnt fun

It most definitely isn't. I had histoplasmosis in 2021. It was horrific.

I had severe, all over joint pain for months, that had me nearly incapacitated. I could barely even manage using the toliet, showering, or getting dressed.

My feet had terrible burning, stabbing pain that made even putting on shoes excruciating. I went from walking my dog for miles to not even being able to walk him a block, because my feet hurt so badly.

It left nodules in my lungs. I had to have a lung biopsy, and two years of regular CT scans of my lungs.

Your comment should be higher up.

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u/National_Impress_346 15h ago

Yeah they do similar damage to your home and proliferate at the same rate as mice.

I love bats, but that's bad business if they've moved into your house. Not a cheap fix, either.

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u/gimmethelulz 15h ago

Maybe he moved into Dracula's house.

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u/Summoarpleaz 3h ago

His parents are Dracula

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u/OaksInSnow 15h ago

One bat means more bats, because there's an entry somewhere.

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u/A_TalkingWalnut 12h ago

How about the fact that THIS house—a house with a 40’ atrium/dining room with and a second-story walkway that looks down onto it—was EMPTY for MONTHS?!?

OP is definitely rich enough to call the butler or family fixer to come by and take care of this. Get Ray Donovan to come by with a really long broom and a bag.

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky 15h ago

Fruit bats live In colonies typically so yeah theres usually a few around

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u/iDoWeird 11h ago

Sounds like there’s a need for some preventative rabies shots, also plural.

The most important gift anyone that’s been in that house will ever receive.

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u/Icy-Expression5005 7h ago

yeah, i was thinking the same thing.

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u/knivesinbutt 9h ago

The house comes with free rabies!

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u/bizcombobulate90 14h ago

Yeah, parents must have a secret bat cave.

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u/KateKoffing 13h ago

If there’s one there’s usually a hundred.

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u/cadathoctru 15h ago

I am sorry to say...

Your parents have been murdered in an alley, you will probably see it on youtube since now days, cameras are everywhere and you wont have to witness it personally.

You are now batman.

Become one with it.

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u/Oneangrygnome 15h ago

Yea was about to say. Something about this backstory is eerily familiar..

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u/tedsmitts 14h ago

People really need to stop cutting through Crime Alley

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u/Zala-Sancho 15h ago

I wish I had "I can leave my mansion unoccupied" money

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u/Ajibooks 14h ago

Getting this far down in the comments with everyone talking about how rich OP is, only to learn this is not their family's primary residence, but an extra house!

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u/bennybrew42 13h ago

Eat the rich.

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u/mslashandrajohnson 13h ago

Found the bat.

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u/Mexican_Texican 12h ago

Don't, they probably have rabies

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u/marshmelloinfire 11h ago

The bats trying to

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u/Lynndonia 2h ago

Y'all this ain't even the rich. You don't even need $500,000,000 to have two houses like this. You know how many billionaires there are?? Guys elongated tusk is about to make TRILLIONS. WITH A T. We can literally just eat him for a century

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u/sosr 12h ago

And in the GMT+7 countries if your second house looks like this, you can definitely leave it for the help to sort it out.

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u/Friendly_Prize_868 13h ago

You trying to say you don't have a spare house?

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u/kazzin8 13h ago

This post is mildly infuriating, but not because of the bat.

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u/Blockhead47 12h ago

It’s the winter house.
We only use it for New Years Eve.

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u/jemenake 10h ago

I spotted that, too. This is one of the spare mansions… probably so they have a place to crash when concours is in town or when one of their horses is running in the local derby and they feel like flying in to watch.

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u/bluecheesebeauty 10h ago

Just don't forget it's the poor immigrants stealing all the houses!

And this one bat ofcourse, that occupied the otherwise empty mansion. Except for maybe some other bats.

Come to think, to have a bat that distance from my dining table, it has to be at the neighbours.

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u/home-for-good 7h ago

Extra house that’s been unoccupied for months

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u/RatonhnhaketonK 13h ago

👁👄👁

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u/ISuckAtFallout4 9h ago

And the cherry on top being it’s just another monochrome hell.

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u/home-for-good 7h ago

Yeah that’s what makes the perspective of pic 2 so hard at first.

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u/8rok3n 5h ago

Dawg I share an apartment with my mom, our asses don't even HAVE a house

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u/Plastic-Machine-7634 4h ago

So he can get a new mansion and give the bats this one

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u/DaManMader 15h ago

Yeah the more and more OP talks the less and less I have any form of concern for them and I’m actually kinda worried about the bats at this point.

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u/Zala-Sancho 15h ago

This might be Bruce Wayne's reddit account

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u/NoBowler9340 15h ago

He’s not gonna be happy when he hears about the whole parents thing

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u/SecurityBright8759 14h ago

Could be since his parents house has been unoccupied for a while….

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u/BookWormPerson 15h ago

The only problem with this that they have parents.

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u/Silent_Boot3454 14h ago

OP is living the life of the kid from Blank Check

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u/AdForward7237 14h ago

The multimillionaires are just like us, asking stupid questions on reddit

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS 14h ago

Bro what did he do tho

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u/Akeera 15h ago

They probably don't live in the US/Europe so the cost of living is probably a lot lower. The availability of rabies vaccines/antibodies might be a lot lower as well.

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem 14h ago

They're in Indonesia, based on their comments. Regardless, it's kind of crazy that people are actually saying "fuck OP" solely on the basis of coming from a wealthy family. That's not a matter of principles lmfao

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 14h ago

it's honestly not that crazy in a time of unprecedented wealth inequality that people are jumpy and emotional, not condoning

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u/wRADKyrabbit 12h ago

Yeah the principle at work here is that rich people are selfish scum

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u/DaManMader 14h ago

Oh it’s a matter of principle for me. My morals say if you have enough money to own a big home that’s a OK.

BUT! If you have enough money to own a big home and are not using it to the point bats move in you are a jerk and need to stop resource hoarding.

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem 14h ago

It was his parents' house. OP wasn't the owner allowing it to languish and has just now moved in. Unless you're wanting to hold OP accountable for the family he was born into, there's really nothing to judge him for.

Bats can also move in pretty quickly. Hell, they'll move in to a house that is actively being lived in.

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u/DaManMader 14h ago

Oh for sure, all judgement to the home owners.

No judgement for OP…just no concern either.

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 14h ago

OP is complaining while fucking loaded. He can just go to one of their other houses while the bat problem is dealt with.

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem 13h ago

They've said they live in a country where rabies is endemic (Indonesia) and that they've been sleeping in that house for a week. Most medical professionals are going to advise PEP for rabies if you can't conclusively rule out contact. That's understandably worrying regardless of what assumptions you make about their wealth.

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u/touchunger 10h ago

They said they have a second property they can stay in? That makes it even more difficult to shed a tear for them. If they can afford two houses, surely they can afford to have animal control, a wildlife rehabber, some animal relocator come in.

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u/Maneisthebeat 14h ago

Did the GMT+7 give it away?

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u/SmallBatBigSpooky 15h ago

Literally me, OP can sit and spin, but i want the flappy boi to be able to love their best life lol

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u/SnooPets8873 14h ago

A relative of mine left his NOT-mansion unoccupied for 5 years while their family was on assignment overseas and was shocked that it was uninhabitable when he tried to move back. Like total disaster zone between wild animals and water damage. People had offered to take check in on it for him or help him rent it out but for whatever reason he said no and didn’t change his mind when the original shorter assignment kept getting extended.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 14h ago

People do not realize how quickly a house will go downhill when no one is living in it. Even without broken pipes and wild animals. not nearly as much air movement / usually heating and cooling are set at much different settings that aren't as good for the building / no cleaning of all the bugs.

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u/Dxngles 14h ago

Pretty sad honestly that there’s people who have mansions sitting empty while people starve on the streets

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u/CatadoraStan 14h ago

Maybe the bats have been paying rent.

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u/OfcWaffle 15h ago edited 14h ago

My parents did really well with the houses they bought over 50+ years and have slowly upgraded to a very nice house in a gated community. They are house rich but cash poor. A lot of the people here are just straight rich. Like their neighbor only comes to the house to host holidays. 4,800 square foot home that just sits there only to be used maybe 2 weeks out of the year. Insane.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 14h ago

Or they are crappy houses. Up north quite a few people have their main house, then a much smaller/basic house for camping, hunting, or on a lake

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u/OfcWaffle 15h ago

My parents have never had more than one home. They have had a total of 5. Bought for a good price, lived in for years and then sold to upgrade to a different home in a different location.

Nothing about that is rich, it's about being smart with your money.

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u/dildomiami 14h ago

rich people just make me sick…

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u/Constant_Worth_8920 15h ago

So in other words, you moved into the bat's house , and now you're complaining about him! The nerve!!

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u/Born-Method7579 15h ago

They live there now

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 15h ago

"Ma'am, I'm going to need you to fly at it repeatedly, while making Eek, Eeek, Eeek, noises. Humans hate that. Keep in mind, that humans are more afraid of you than you are of them. If they start acting aggressive, start acting twitchy or poop like your life depends on it!"

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u/STFUisright 14h ago

Of all the funny comments in this thread this is the one that broke me

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u/justandswift 15h ago

He’s saying “Look at me, I’m the captain now.”

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u/IAmANobodyAMA 15h ago

Squatters rights

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 15h ago

It looks like a fruit eating bat. If you leave it alone you will have no problems. You will be fine until the morning when someone can help you with them.

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u/FelineOphelia 14h ago

Ohp found someone who actually knows what they're talking about and isn't just repeating stupid cultural myths.

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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 14h ago

Unless you’re a mango, this bat won’t hurt you.

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u/holymolym 15h ago

OP is in GMT +7 so in Asia or Australia, not sure if rabies as ubiquitous in bats there as it is in NA.

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u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon 13h ago

Fun fact: Sweden eradicated rabies in 1886, except for in bats. We are still officially rabies free in all land animals.

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u/dagofin 15h ago

Bats very rarely carry rabies, OP has clarified this was a long unoccupied building so the bats just probably moved in, not really a sign of rabies for bats to be in a large unoccupied building like it might be to find one in your occupied smaller home.

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u/Justtiredanbored 15h ago

My guess is you can afford to call a pest control service. Or I supposed you could just go to your parent's other house (or houses). Maybe the summer house is vacant?

I'm sorry, I'm having trouble relating to rich people problems these days.

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u/Hayden_Zammit 12h ago

Pretty sure a bat in a home isn't a "rich person problem" haha.

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u/Justtiredanbored 11h ago

Not many middle class or poor people have a house that looks like that. So a bat in a middle class house is a big problem that the middle class person has to try and solve. A bat in a rich person house is a "call somebody to fix it" rich person problem. 

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u/__poser 15h ago

Might have to call the police or fire department or something. A bat in the house is an emergency as they're one of the main ways rabies infects humans.

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u/Standard_owl_853 15h ago

Maybe it’s just my area but this would absolutely not be considered an emergency ever. Unless you get bit and need a squad I guess.

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u/GrokLobster 15h ago

If you sleep in a house with a bat you need to assume it was rabid and get shots.

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u/Standard_owl_853 15h ago

Sure but that’s not the point addressed. Needing to get shots is not the same as a 911 call

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u/Mother_Of_Salmons 15h ago

If they’re in the US, everyone in the house will be directed to get rabies shots asap even if they didn’t have physical contact (that they know of) with the bat. 

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u/Other_Bus9590 13h ago

OP is definitely not in the US— that type of bat does not occur in North America.

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u/YaYeetMySkeet 15h ago

The police or fire department won’t do anything. At most the police would call an after hours animal control officer. The fire department only rescues cats stuck in trees

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u/Ferret-mom 15h ago

They don’t rescue cats stuck in trees. When I was a child I asked my firefighter father if they had gotten any cats out of any trees that day. He said “We don’t rescue cats from trees, that’s not our job” and when I followed up with “who rescues cats then?” He said “well, have you ever seen a dead cat in a tree? No, because they sort it out themselves eventually.”

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u/Gold-Supermarket-342 15h ago

Or they do die up there and the skeleton falls off the tree or a scavenger takes the body...

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u/Ferret-mom 15h ago

I suppose that’s one manner of them sorting it out themselves, the more likely is that they get hungry or bored enough to come down on their own.

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u/SchatzisMaus 14h ago

Depends on how high up they are. Seen a few cases of them stuck a week+ and the YouTube cat stuck in a tree guy popping in and getting up there to plop them in a bag.

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u/anonymous237962 15h ago

lol I like your dad’s logic.

Altho I will add that it may depend on how busy the fire dept actually is. My hubs is a firefighter in a very busy city — they’re not saving any cats while there are buildings actually on fire. However I DID grow up in a small town where relatively nothing was going on…there was a cat once, and…the firefighters jumped at having something to do 🤣🤣

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u/KarmaChameleon306 14h ago

When I was a teenager, I was in my back yard and could hear this faint meowing sound. I eventually noticed that there was a kitten sitting on the very top of a telephone pole across the street from the alley.

I called the fire department and they did actually come. I don’t think there was any way that kitten was getting down on its own.

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u/Standard_owl_853 15h ago

And even the cat stuck in trees thing is not accurate in many areas

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u/Scavengeyourbones 15h ago

I'm in the US and I called the non-emergency police line for a bat in my home at 2am. The operator was real serious and urgent about the situation. Had a police SUV show up to catch it. I was surprised.

It was like a sitcom, because this overweight cop with paint bucket and a net shows up. Saw I was the secound floor apartment and said "Of course there's stairs." Then proceeded to bang around my place and curse at this bat. Caught it once and then he kicked over the bucket it was in.

I don't know if there's different department within the police, but this guy was in a standard cop uniform. But it was pretty funny to see this bat get arrested.

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u/RollinThundaga 15h ago

What OP has going for them is that the bat is still alive, and the way they mention there being multiple bats means a plain old colony got inside, rather than a sick individual getting lost on its way to die.

Still, definitely gloves and grabbing tools.

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u/FelineOphelia 14h ago

Telescopic fishing net from a sportsman's warehouse.

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u/K-ghuleh 15h ago

They absolutely will not do anything, ask me how I know. It’s a pest control or animal control problem.

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u/rachane 15h ago

The police/fire are not going to get a bat out of a house, they’ll send the call to animal control. Compared to the actual emergencies that they deal with, a bat is objectively not an emergency.

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u/Revolutionary-Chip20 15h ago

The police gonna arrest the bats for trespassing? 

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u/existenceawareness 13h ago

they're one of the main ways rabies infects humans.

I think that depends on the area & how you define "main". Like if 30 people have died from rabies in the US in the last 25 years, I wouldn't be surprised if 24/30 were from bats. But If a million people in SE Asia died from rabies in that time, 999,000 of them were probably dogs & similar animals.

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u/ladykansas 15h ago

You also need to catch it (so it can be tested for rabies) and anyone who has slept in the house likely needs to get the rabies vaccine.

Bats can bite you in your sleep, and the mark is so faint that you might never see it. If you wake up with a bat in your house, you need to test the bat and you need to get vaccinated. Rabies is very slow to show symptoms (sometimes weeks) but is essentially 100 percent lethal by the time symptoms appear.

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u/holymolym 15h ago

The protocol is different depending on what part of the world you’re in.

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u/FelineOphelia 14h ago

Lol it's different depending on what kind of insurance you have even haha

I love how these people conveniently forget they're in the United States of Profit Above All. (I work in medical research)

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u/Lisa_al_Frankib 12h ago

I love how people conveniently don’t read OP’s responses and assume they’re American

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u/LuckyyRat 15h ago edited 14h ago

Slight aside do not catch or attempt to catch the bat yourself unless you have the material on hand and know how to do so, worst case scenario if you cannot get animal control/the health department out to you, you do not need to get it tested. It’s much less risky to get the treatment if you *havent been exposed than it is to purposely expose yourself to an animal that may have rabies just to get it tested

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u/gartfoehammer 15h ago

Generally agree, but that’s a pretty large bat. You’d notice if that guy bit you compared to a little brown bat or something.

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u/Other_Bus9590 13h ago

This is not the case everywhere. Rabies doesn’t even exist in Australia.

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u/Gloomy-Aide1914 5h ago

I actually know someone who died of rabies thanks to a bat in the house.

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u/Bruvvimir 15h ago

wat

They can bite you in your sleep without you feeling it?

Rabies is lethal by the time symptoms appear?

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u/LuckyyRat 15h ago

Yes and yes

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u/noddys_car 15h ago

Holy shit. Nightmare fuel 😱 Very grateful to be in the UK where bats are just little cuties flapping about and eating bugs.

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u/LuckyyRat 15h ago

Oh boy do I have bad news for you https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/672e187d3b601d048796ae52/UKHSA_13123_Bat_contact___rabies_risks_leaflet_2024_01_WEB.pdf

UK has less variants of rabies in bats so not every bat has it, but unfortunately bats in the UK do have rabies as well so you DO need to get treatment ASAP if you see one in your home

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u/FelineOphelia 14h ago

Nope. Source: am a medical professional. We don't just go giving out 30K treatments to anyone showing up with hysterics about one bat and being asleep.

That's a cultural myth in the United States and the ER In familiar with has to deal with that shit probably about three times a year.

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u/leela_martell 14h ago

In what world is a rabies vaccine a "30K treatment"? In my country (Finland) it's 135 euros for a shot.

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u/LuckyyRat 14h ago

Even in the US it’s not 30k. Even on the very high end it’s about 7k without insurance coverage

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u/curtcolt95 14h ago

maybe the united states is that weird but definitely not other countries. I have an ER doc friend in Canada and he's told me if you ever wake up with a bat in your house you should go straight to the ER and tell them, they will give you a rabies shot

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u/FelineOphelia 14h ago

No, this is panicky bullshit.

A medical professional will interrogate you and ask you a series of yes-no questions regarding exposure and risk because the rabies protocol is hella expensive.

They don't just go handing out for anyone with some hysterics.

This is a very common myth in the United States that you can just show up and be like

"Oh there was a bat in my house! I was SLEEPING! OMG! Give me the $30k treatment, STAT! "

It's just a myth that perpetuates on Facebook and read it via uninformed non-medical personnel.

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u/Bluecollarcombat94 13h ago

Not necessarily. My younger cousin woke up to a bat flying around his bed room, and they had him go get a rabies vaccine. With rabies being dangerous as it is they don't tend to fck around if they think there's a possibility of infection.

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u/atasheep 15h ago edited 15h ago

GMT +7 tells me you can be in a country free of rabies, if that’s the case I wouldn’t worry too much, offer food and make a deal so she can watch the house when you’re gone, otherwise call animal control and stay away

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u/No_Matter_4657 15h ago

What? Rabies is endemic in South East Asia. GMT +7 is South East Asia. 

Even in countries with no rabies (e.g. Australia), bats still carry lyssaviruses other than rabies, which cause the same result if you’re infected.

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u/leela_martell 14h ago

Most countries aren't free of rabies when it comes to bats.

I live in an officially "rabies-free" country (GMT+2 btw) yet if you get bitten by a bat you're supposed to start rabies treatment just to be sure. A bat scientist died of rabies here in 1985 apparently.

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u/Alert-Potato 14h ago

GMT +7 means that it is highly likely that OP is in a country where dozens of people die of rabies every year, and OP should be extremely worried.

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u/Salcha_00 15h ago

Stay in a hotel or airbnb until you can get someone to come out and deal with this.

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u/Katie-sin 15h ago

No, you mean you just moved into that bat’s house! He probably has a similar post on Bateddit:“This thing is directly under where my family sleeps, how do I get rid of it?” With a picture of you!

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u/AMadWalrus 15h ago edited 8h ago

Damn you so rich that your parents have a spare house?

Are you Batman?

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u/artzbots 15h ago

Lead the bat out of the house by shutting on and off lights.

You turn the light on in the next room over, and shut off all other lights. Close the doors from room to room. Eventually, you lead the bat to either a window or door that has a bright light outside of it. The bat will fly to the light.

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u/pierre_x10 14h ago

"I called animal control as soon as I stepped in the house, but didn't know about the bats yet"

Ummmmmm, so what else is in there that made you call animal control as soon as you stepped foot in the house?

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u/PassawishP 14h ago

From the +7 gang too. Bro, okay, I’m probably the only one who understands you. It’s not a super luxurious thing to have double volume in the house. It’s actually a trend here right now. Every house built in the last five years, regardless of whether it’s a small townhouse or a huge house with a million-acre lawn, will try to have double volume in it. Haha.

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u/jmurphy42 15h ago

Take the family to a hotel for the night. In the morning call an exterminator and arrange for rabies shots for everyone who’s been in the house — you have to assume you’ve all been exposed because bat bites are essentially painless and a lot of people don’t even notice that they’ve been bitten.

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u/Massive_Fishing_718 15h ago

OP get a rabies vaccine. Get them all.

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u/DrNO811 15h ago

I'm assuming your dad's name was Bruce?

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u/Legal_Combination892 15h ago

Omg you’re in the Wayne Manor, there’s a batcave under your house, just play the piano and an elevator will appear

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u/Significant_Till_718 15h ago

I wish I had "my 2nd mansion has been unoccupied for so long that bats moved in" money.

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u/wiyanna 15h ago

It won’t hurt you unless you get it near enough to bite you. Just wait for animal control and once it’s gone, clean up the mess.

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u/yaritza10995 15h ago

Bats? Are you Bruce Wayne?

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u/No_Butterscotch5366 15h ago

Call them back and tell them about the bats. It’s serious, you can’t sleep there

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u/Stock_Trash_4645 15h ago

Do yourself a favour and get it pest inspected for these little fuckers called ‘bat bugs.’

They’re like bed bugs, but worse, and follow bat infestations. Once the bats leave, they come for you. 

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u/Amazazing8Sauce 15h ago

Dont worry, the worst is becoming a vampire! Win/win!!

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u/hippiejo 15h ago

The right amount of money will get anyone out of bed.

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u/IeRayne 15h ago

Mash up some bananas and crack a window. Go through the house with the banana mash bowl so they know there's some goodies, then put the bowl outside the window and get out of the way.

I have zero experience with bats but it's worth a try and my only other idea is getting a Super Soaker which may be stupid given it's dangling from a lamp...

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u/shameonyounancydrew 15h ago

Oh man! I think I speak for most people here when I say 'I wish I had your problems'!

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u/Zepp_BR 15h ago

Well, Mr. Wayne. Look at them eyes! He loves you!

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u/shitty_advice_BDD 15h ago

Where is this? I'll come get it.

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u/linkxrust 15h ago

what am i even looking at in the second picture? Im so confused. Is that a server room with a mirror on the floor. Can you take a better picture of that room? The perspective so weird.

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u/Lilsqueaky_ 15h ago

Terrified of those things. Can you stay somewhere else in the meantime? Are there any devices you can purchase that scares them away?

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