55-year-old Gary Giles used to enjoy hand-feeding bats and letting them lick his fingers. That was until he became the first man in over 80 years to die of rabies in Utah. More
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Not quite the pizzazz as Grisly Man.
Biff! Pow, Sock!
https://youtu.be/VSaDPc1Cs5U
It may just be a coincidence, but noone had died of rabies here in Utah for 75 years until Mitt was elected our senator. Hmmmmmmm.
No fixing stupid. No fixing dead either.
That is a horrible way to die. He suffered for his stupidity. If you want a pet get a dog.
DNA tests said that?
Gosh.
Hydrophobiam huh?
A high fiber diet too?
Bats need fiber in their diet, which can be found in many southwestern bean varieties, along with insect larvae too. Makes beans so good they jump out of the pan.
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Dumbass does something that is obviously dangerous; then dies of dangerous disease.
But nobody has bats for pets, bats are for playing baseball.
The only conselation is that behavior will not be repeated.
Being as bats are widely known to be a rabies carrier, this idiot is a Darwin Award finalist, and has my vote for the grand prize.
Bat man shoulda stuck to feeding robins.
Doesn’t matter, grizzly bears or rabid bats, the fun is over when you’re dead.
In other bat world news
Sonny Pumphrey was working in his driveway. . .
WTV-TV – Upper Haywood County man punches bear in nose during attack
UPPER HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C. A Haywood County man came face to face with an angry bear and lived to tell about it. “That sucker was eyeball to eyeball to me,” he said.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8118/9012429992_bf546239bc_z.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOHraf3LEk
And, never missing an opportunity, there is a Go Fund Me page set up to help pay his medical and funeral expenses.
So what does Bat Boy from the old Weekly World News have to say about this? The head line should be, Man who petted a bat and contacted rabies from petting it and got rabies went bat shit crazy.
HAHAAAHAAAAHAA–
Wait, who died?