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Wayne Keyser
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From: Arlington, Virginia, USA
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posted 08-21-2009 10:14 PM

"Four of the 10 Carmike theaters at Marketplace have been shut down until at least Monday due to bat sightings in those theaters. A certified inspector is set to evaluate the entire theater complex by Monday, according to a cinema notice."

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Robert E. Allen
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From: Checotah, Oklahoma
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posted 08-21-2009 11:48 PM

Back in the 60s I worked as projectionist at an all day house in Sacramento and went home at the end of each shift smelling like bat guano as the attic was infested with bats.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 08-22-2009 09:13 AM

Bats creep me out, but I guess a single bat can eat as much as its own weight in insects in a single day, so they help control the insects. Hard to imagine the numbers of bugs we'd have without bats eating so many of them.

But they still creep me out. One got into our theatre when we were having some work done by a contractor; he had the upstairs windows (which have no screens) open and a bat flew in. Fortunately, he was able to get the bat out; I don't know how he did it.

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John Lasher
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posted 08-22-2009 12:25 PM

quote: "Robert E. Allen"
went home at the end of each shift smelling like bat guano

I bet it was all you could do to keep from going batshit crazy.

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Robert E. Allen
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From: Checotah, Oklahoma
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posted 08-22-2009 12:58 PM

quote: John Lasher

I bet it was all you could do to keep from going batshit crazy.

Well it didn't please my girlfriend. I finally decided to wear coveralls in the booth and changed as soon as I got home.

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

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From: Albuquerque, NM
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posted 08-22-2009 01:56 PM

Bats are cool. We have dozens and dozens of them living somewhere here in one of the condo complexes at Mountain's Edge (about as far southwest as one can get and still be in the Las Vegas valley). At dusk they come out for their evening meals. Really something to watch during my evening walks, the little fighter pilots using their ultrasonics to go after their in-flight dinners.

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Jim Bedford
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From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
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posted 08-22-2009 02:01 PM

Are these just a leftover from last summer's screenings of THE DARK KNIGHT? Will fear of bats close the all the remaining ozoners in the US? Holy guano!

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Frank Angel
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posted 08-22-2009 03:08 PM

I worked in a theatre in Caldwell TX -- The Mattsonian. The employees called it the Ratsonian because in the basement and in the walkway to the booth, there were rat carcuses and skeletons all over the place. If you didn't step gingerly, you could feel and hear them crunch and crackle underfoot. The smell wasn't exactly Chanel No 9.

Bats are just rats with wings.

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John Lasher
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posted 08-22-2009 03:54 PM

that's what i get for being so subtle with my puns

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Chad Souder
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
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posted 08-24-2009 02:10 PM

quote: Robert E. Allen
Back in the 60s I worked as projectionist at an all day house in Sacramento and went home at the end of each shift smelling like bat guano as the attic was infested with bats.

Bat droppings are pretty bad for your health too, once they dry up and flake off and you breathe it all in.

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Robert E. Allen
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From: Checotah, Oklahoma
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posted 08-24-2009 02:47 PM

quote: Chad Souder
Bat droppings are pretty bad for your health too, once they dry up and flake off and you breathe it all in.

Fortunately I was a "relief man" and the job lasted for only a couple of weeks. How are things in beautiful Iowa. In '06 I was managing the Sunset in Sumner. Sure do miss the place.

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Jeremy Jorgenson
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posted 08-24-2009 07:04 PM

quote: Frank Angel
Bats are just rats with wings.

No, no, no ... pigeons are rats with wings. Bats are cool.

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Barry Floyd
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From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
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posted 08-26-2009 10:12 AM

We have bats at our drive-in. We have about 5 or 6 of them that come out every night right as it's getting dark. They are pretty cool to watch.

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Frank Angel
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posted 08-26-2009 02:48 PM

quote: Jeremy Jorgenson
No, no, no ... pigeons are rats with wings. Bats are cool.

Maybe, Jeremy, but have you ever seen a live bat's head close up, I mean right up at it? They are scary muthas -- they look like they would eat your face off if they only had half a chance.

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John Wilson
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posted 08-26-2009 07:44 PM

quote: Frank Angel
They are scary muthas -- they look like they would eat your face off if they only had half a chance.

What...this little fella?

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