What A Load Of…….
Bat guano. A couple from Ballston Spa, New York have discovered the hideout of an entire division of the aerial shock troops of the Animal Uprising™. Unfortunately for them, they found it in their attic. Along with 3,500 pounds of bat guano.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
Bats do two things well (aside from their shock troop duties, of course), catch a lot of insects and produce enormous quantities of guano. (Which, incidentally, can be very hazardous to humans. Hence the large cleanup bill which was basically a hazmat situation).
Note: Ballston Spa is the home of the National Bottle Museum. I'll bet you never even knew there was such a thing, did you?
By BlogDog, May 3, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
Bat Guano – wasn’t he Keenan Wynn in “Dr. Strangelove?”
By Hurricane Shirley, May 4, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
We have a Barbie Museum here in California.
Please don’t tell me the guano is going to be bottled.