On the subject of bats...
I was doing some remodeling of a barn that was being converted into a home for a friend of a friend right... Well, one day we got there and we saw something fly by realy fast above the "dining room" where it's open above head to the second floor. So there's almost 20 feet to the ceiling and this thing's flying back and forth occasionally diving down. I grab the only thing I see that I might be able to do something with which happened to be a 12 foot piece of 1x3 strapping and start flapping it back and forth in the air. Woulda never thought that I'd be able to hit this thing but guess what, I did. It went splat, all over the wall, then the floor...
It was pretty gross. I picked it up with a couple scrap pieces of wood, threw it out the back door and proceded to clean up after the disgusting creature, which I must say, was not so fun as the initial splat.
That's my story.