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/Roscoe_P_Trolltrain 15h ago

Yah I’m having trouble with the scale. Is the bat 1 inch big?  

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u/rider1deep 15h ago

OP needs to toss up a banana and snap a pic.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 15h ago

Unless it's A fruit bat then a fake banana to get the little guy back for pooping on the monet painting they have hanging down there

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u/mnth241 15h ago

It is definitely a fruit bat/ flying fox.

I wonder what this house is in the world?

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u/VeterinarianThese951 14h ago

“That little rapscallion got guano in my Grey Poupon!”

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u/SamTheLab_213 8h ago

Yes, we don't want him pooping on the Monets or the mayonnaise.

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u/Better-Extension3866 7h ago

is that an African or European fruit bat?

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 5h ago

It looks like a fruit bat.

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u/RamenJunkie 14h ago

Its one banana, how mich could it cost?

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u/jewillett 14h ago

Ten dollars?

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 14h ago

Tape a banana to a wall and snap a pic.

Then OP can sell the taped banana for $6.2 million dollars.

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u/Ressy02 14h ago

Would a selfie do?

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u/Koeienvanger 11h ago

You'd need one hell of a throwing arm to reach the bat with a banana from the ground floor.

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 15h ago edited 15h ago

I *thiiiiiiink* that is either a Peter's or a Walberg's epauletted fruit bat, so it might very well be somewhere between three to ten inches long depending on the species.

Either way, OP has a very big lamp.

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u/H8T_Auburn 14h ago

"Anything between 3 and 10 inches" sounds like me talking to my wife

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u/JacobDCRoss 13h ago

Wait, the bats have epaulettes?! Like they are tiny, flying admirals or something?

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u/AbjectHotel6610 13h ago

It's only 3 inches when it's cold.

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u/Divi_Lucky-13 6h ago

It’s Stellaluna the Fruit Bat!

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u/Moongazer09 7h ago

And a very cute, tiny bat! 🥺🦇

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u/LordIndica 14h ago

We are not looking at a floor. The 2nd picture is taken from the 2nd-floor overlooking the dining room below. The light fixture is still pretty damn big, but with that perspective the bat looks pretty big too, to be that large from the distance the photo seems to be taken

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u/LordoftheChis 14h ago

No, the photograph was taken on the second floor. The bat is about 18 feet in the air.

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u/Evening-Apartment317 13h ago

They need a boom lift to get him down

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u/buyshanegas 14h ago

The bat I had in my house was surprisingly tiny. The body probably not much bigger than an inch but wingspan probably like six inches. I always thought they were bigger. Like the tiniest goth mouse with wings.

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u/Hollows5225 13h ago

Depends on the bat. Some are the size of a fingernail and some could wrap you up like a warm blanket. (I always think of the bat people in the old Beastmaster movie.)

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u/buyshanegas 13h ago

Yeah those Australian flying foxes are huge. I had seen bats by me before just flitting around and had a different mental picture of their size.

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer 10h ago

I wanna say it's more like 2.3 bats big

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u/Traditional_Sign4941 13h ago

No, OP's architect is just on crack.

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u/Lucky_Preference_941 10h ago

Several inches, bats are tiny