UK Library Museum Posts Hilarious Twitter Thread About A Bat Found In Their Store
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) is dedicated to exploring the English countryside, its history, its people – and now bats. Their Twitter account, known for its dark, dry humor, tweeted out last fall that they had made a discovery in their rare book store that didn’t quite fall under the usual artifact categories. Hovering in the corner above the fire exit was an adorable, black bat that had wandered in accidentally – probably not to do some light reading. Fortunately for the small creature, the staff of the MERL was better equipped to deal with the animal than Dwight was on The Office. The staff phoned up Rose-Ann Movsovic, a retired librarian, MERL volunteer, and licensed bat worker. To the delight of the internet, the entire bat mission was live-tweeted in typical, entertaining MERL style.
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The rare book store is home to the MERLs Ladybird Books Archive, medieval manuscripts, our children’s book collection, and the WH Smith archive – all the topics that might interest a bat.
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Strangely enough, I was once bitten by a bat-- in a library. I used to be a librarian in the USA. A bat had managed to trap itself in our library and ended up on the floor, very dehydrated. A patron decided he could help the bat by stomping on it with his big boot. I immediately dived to the floor and protected it with my hands, resulting in me being bitten. Poor little bat was so scared. I don't know why people have the urge to kill anything they don't understand.
That's horrible!! I'm glad you helped Batty. Even if you did get bitten, I hope it healed quick.
Why are people so stupid ??? How did someone that ignorant end up in a library ? I'm glad you helped the bat. I would have helped it too.
I hope you then stomped the patron
Sorry, got to ask: Do you have superpowers now (aside from obviously being the kind of a saving hero)? Asking... for a friend...
Virtual medal for you <3
Peoples are devided, their body's are ugly in most, from body forming our mental mind. If you would have some nature deviation in the visual characteristics (uglyness, deformity) this would affect on the mental. All this mental deviations peoples carrying to the society, so then it spill out to the mental on another (may be happy) peoples. In the end - no body happy, and UGLYNESS RISING !!! Because south peoples has a great breeding's - they haven't beauty. ALL BEAUTY CAME FROM NEANDERTHAL"S, from the nature.
Because peoples want to kill some body, most of peoples. Because they have devided dna, and ugly bodies. This is came to human's from the black's and chineses. My mother (she is a turk) automatically killing everything that disturb her in the house (i mean any insects, and fly's or something else living forms which entered into house), she doesn't care, because this is happens automatically. I think this is could be just because she like to kill, because she has some chineses admixes, which influence at the beauty of the body, health. From the body quality forming our mental. Or may be she just not enough of love, but this questions coming back to the question of the body's.
All I can think as I scrolled towards the last picture was, please please don't be over!
Me too. I want more!
I can call him back if you want.
That’s not even your bat.
No, but I have sonic tech that lets me communicate with bats
back off, Superman... we all know Batman is THE authority in everything bat-related
Strangely enough, I was once bitten by a bat-- in a library. I used to be a librarian in the USA. A bat had managed to trap itself in our library and ended up on the floor, very dehydrated. A patron decided he could help the bat by stomping on it with his big boot. I immediately dived to the floor and protected it with my hands, resulting in me being bitten. Poor little bat was so scared. I don't know why people have the urge to kill anything they don't understand.
That's horrible!! I'm glad you helped Batty. Even if you did get bitten, I hope it healed quick.
Why are people so stupid ??? How did someone that ignorant end up in a library ? I'm glad you helped the bat. I would have helped it too.
I hope you then stomped the patron
Sorry, got to ask: Do you have superpowers now (aside from obviously being the kind of a saving hero)? Asking... for a friend...
Virtual medal for you <3
Peoples are devided, their body's are ugly in most, from body forming our mental mind. If you would have some nature deviation in the visual characteristics (uglyness, deformity) this would affect on the mental. All this mental deviations peoples carrying to the society, so then it spill out to the mental on another (may be happy) peoples. In the end - no body happy, and UGLYNESS RISING !!! Because south peoples has a great breeding's - they haven't beauty. ALL BEAUTY CAME FROM NEANDERTHAL"S, from the nature.
Because peoples want to kill some body, most of peoples. Because they have devided dna, and ugly bodies. This is came to human's from the black's and chineses. My mother (she is a turk) automatically killing everything that disturb her in the house (i mean any insects, and fly's or something else living forms which entered into house), she doesn't care, because this is happens automatically. I think this is could be just because she like to kill, because she has some chineses admixes, which influence at the beauty of the body, health. From the body quality forming our mental. Or may be she just not enough of love, but this questions coming back to the question of the body's.
All I can think as I scrolled towards the last picture was, please please don't be over!
Me too. I want more!
I can call him back if you want.
That’s not even your bat.
No, but I have sonic tech that lets me communicate with bats
back off, Superman... we all know Batman is THE authority in everything bat-related