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Rogue bat flies into Kerry home, causes ructions, gets caught on video

The bat was an intruder that Tadhg Fleming and his family are unlikely to forget in a hurry.

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MOST PEOPLE WOULD be fairly freaked out if they came across an uninvited animal in their family home.

Everyone feels a bit violated if they discover the presence of a mouse, rat or even a little spider in their gaff. However, the panic levels surge way higher when the uninvited animal has wings. They’re so much harder to catch.

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If you have an attic bedroom, you’re all too familiar with keeping your windows closed in constant fear of a bird entering. What do you do when this event occurs? How the hell do you get a bird out?

Tadhg Fleming faced this problem, but to make things even more dramatic the intruder wasn’t even a bird. It was a bat. Nobody is ever prepared for the day a bat enters their home. Bats can fly at 40mph, for your information. So things got pretty funny as his dad tried to catch it.

There’s so much going on in this video that it’s impossible to take it all in the first time you watch it.

Tadhg gave DailyEdge.ie some background on the video:

Panic ensued when the bat entered the kitchen from the back door. My father (with my football shorts and long woolly socks) tried to first catch the bat with a tea towel, then opted for a larger towel which the mother had just ironed.

As if the bat didn’t cause enough drama, now Tadhg’s mam has to iron again. Thanks a lot.

From then, myself and my mother hid behind the doors to let my father take on the bat 1v1.

The highlight of the video is probably his new puppy casually deciding to urinate on the floor in the background. The dog knew this was the window of opportunity to pee inside without being scalded because the entire family had pretty much lost their minds over the bat.

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Have you ever seen someone prouder than Tadhg’s dad the moment he releases the bat into the back garden? Priceless.

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Written by Kelly Earley and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Michelle_Herbert
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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:17 PM

    It was ironing a towel that caught my eye….I’ve heard it all now

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    Mute Steve Austin
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    Sep 6th 2017, 2:12 PM

    They have houses in Kerry ?

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:02 PM

    There ain’t nothing that beats an Irish home during a family crisis.Daddy catches the moths,spiders and even bats.well done Dad.This isn’t the last we’ll see of Derry. #latelateshowthewholeshabang

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:35 PM

    Beautiful creature, a single bat will eat thousands of midges in a night and are responsible for the pollination of many trees, as far as I know we wouldn’t have mangoes or bananas only for bats, around 300 species of fruit depend on them for pollination.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:39 PM

    @Charles Coughlan: saw one catch a moth in flight a few nights ago. Presence justified.

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    Mute Mel Finn
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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:49 PM

    that was a bat-tle

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    Mute Tony Gordon
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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:57 PM

    Happened me twice this summer. (Two nights in a row)
    Once in the bedroom.

    But second one grounded and walked around the kitchen until I but a glass over it, fed the little bugger and let him out.

    Even when I let him out, he stayed on bench outside for 15 minutes before flying off. Got a cool video of it.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:35 PM

    @Tony Gordon: what did you feed him?

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:14 PM

    @Tony Gordon: I misread that…. I thought you fed him a burger

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:31 PM

    @Niall O Neill: put a pice of apple and orange segment, wasn’t gonna go hunting for insects. Not sure which type of bat it was, but it paid some attention to the food with its tongue.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:32 PM

    @A H: hahahha…..not that was for me!

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    Sep 5th 2017, 11:51 PM

    That is the best thing I have seen in a long, long time!
    I’m prouder of nothing more than being from Kerry – and this reinforces that.
    Our accent is fantastic, lads, and the whole humour and tenor of this clip is unbeatable.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:03 PM

    Where’s Ozzy Osborne when you need him?

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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:58 PM

    Still less embarrassing than the Healy raes!

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:13 PM

    @John Dman: Danny will proclaim it as an omen and will want to sacrifice a comely virgin to the pixies.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 11:20 PM

    Who irons their towels????

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    Sep 5th 2017, 11:11 PM

    I’ll tell you an interesting thing about bats. You know the bats had this radar thing figured out before humans and it was the study of rather cruelly blinded bats that led to its discovery. Anyway the first complex radar system was developed in 1939 for use in WW2 and before long primitive radar jamming techniques began to be developed in response. The scientists then went back to look at moths (the bats natural prey) and found that they had some really clever radar jamming techniques. The bat in response them would cycle up and down the frequencies and there was this whole arms race going on that found a parallel in WW2.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:30 PM

    I’d strangle your man shouting at everyone else and doing nothing himself, all they had to do was open the door.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:31 AM

    @The_Prince_of_Fire: Indeed if they had turned off all the lights in the room and opened the doors the bat would have left, they navigate by the moon light.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:43 PM

    Simple solution would of been to open door. (Facepalm)

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:04 PM

    Slow news day is it?

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    Sep 5th 2017, 10:37 PM
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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:54 PM

    I thought this was a piss take…

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    Sep 5th 2017, 11:17 PM

    The bat was trying to find space on top of the presses. Gave it up when discovered it was futile

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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:51 PM

    Bat out of hell

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:32 AM

    Turn off all the inside lights and open the exterior doors.

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    Sep 5th 2017, 8:47 PM

    *insert Bruce Wayne gags below*

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    Sep 5th 2017, 9:48 PM

    @Barry Dempsey: the father’s new name is Adam Wesht

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:34 PM

    @The_Prince_of_Fire: Exactly what I thought.

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