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Inside the padding? She's got an FF cup and padding? (or maybe they mean those little pockets inside the bra, uh wait, yeah I know where the bat was now...)
Metro, the free UK newspaper, has a reconstruction of the incident, complete with picture. How very fortunate for the newspaper that she has 34FF breasts. (
In the US, you'd have to notify the health officer and have the bat killed and tested for rabies.
(With high pet vaccination rates, bats are now the largest source of rabies infections in humans, even though only about 3% of bats actually carry it.)
At 3:00 in the morning last Wednesday, I awoke to what my wife thought was an intruder but turned out to be a bat flying laps around our room, looking for a way out. When I figured out what it was, I thought I'd be comforting her to let her know that it was not in fact an intruder, but the bat revelation if anything made things worse for her.
She responded by hermetically sealing herself under the bedsheets and squealing like an asthmatic girl while I chased the poor little dude around the room with a bath towel, trying to humanely catch and release it outside, or at least flush it out the back door.
The whole thing was just one racist housemaid caricature short of being an episode of "Tom & Jerry." Luckily, the bat did not get lodged in my wife's bra.
Before that incident, I considered building a bat house to help deal with local pests. Now I'm positively EXCITED about doing just that.
In the US, you'd have to notify the health officer and have the bat killed and tested for rabies
hmm, well, my current employer is pretty to-the-letter on that kinda thing, however we recently had bats in our belfry (no really, the little bugger got in somehow and was dangling waaaaaaay up on the atrium skylight). Maintenance Guy merely caught it in a net (turns out this is damn difficult to do with bats, btw) and escorted it outside. Which all in all was pretty entertaining seeing as our atrium skylights are about forty feet off the floor and it required constructing scaffolding to get up there.
I think you only need to test if the bat actually bites someone. Which mostly they don't do.