Rabid Bats

Rabid bats have attacked University of Florida students over the past few weeks, Fox News via the AP reports. Or, rather, two students at the university were bitten by bats, one of them rabid, in the same week.

In the first incident last week, student Danny DePaz saw a trembling, mouse-size bat wedged under a classroom door and took pity, fearing it could be squashed.

"I nudged him with a pen and he went back in. Then I grabbed his little leg," DePaz said. The bat responded by biting DePaz on the finger. He dropped it and left.

Now this guy is getting rabies shots. He should've squashed the bat himself.

The university is now trying to educate students and staff about the dangers of bats and rabies. However:

Bats are known to invade crevices in buildings and hide during the day. Tens of thousands of the creatures live nearby in a house the university constructed for bats.

Huh? What? Are bats endangered? Obviously there's nothing like tens of thousands of rabid bats on your doorstep...