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Halloween came early to the four men of Mather 317 this year. Unlike “Christmas in July,” “Halloween in early October” was not a welcomed event because its mascot happened to be a furry, flying rodent. Yes, a bat, not the baseball kind, but the fruit-eating, blood-sucking, flying mammal from Transylvania. A visit from this tiny animal has left 317 with a new appreciation for rustling noises, glue paper, screens and rabies shots...
...bat was first sighted by Greg Gagnon ’04. “Well, I wasn’t quite sure that I had seen it right. I saw it scurrying in the corner and didn’t know if it was a mouse. After a few seconds of processing, I just started laughing,” he explains...
Following the laughing outburst, Gagnon alerted Myers and Marcel LaFlamme ’04 to the situation. The bat had crawled into the laundry pile of the fourth roommate, Will Holmgren ’04. “I ran down and told the super about the bat. He sent someone up who couldn’t find it and assured us it must have left,” says Gagnon. Professional pest controllers returned a few times, once supplying the room with glue paper with which to trap the bat...
Later that evening when Holmgren returned and was informed of the visitor, he jokingly commented that it would be funny if the bat were in one of his shoes. Holmgren then proceeded to pick up his shoes one by one to prove his point. When the bat actually did flop out of the fourth shoe he’d grabbed, one of the roomies let out with a “girly scream.” “I’m not going to say it was me,” Holmgren attests...
...think it does put a little bit more pressure on the defense,” said sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci. “The offense may not be clicking on all cylinders right off the bat and we are going to have to play a very good game to keep Dartmouth under wraps...