Hotel girl's batty bra capers
It seems it is not only the caped crusader that uses a bat phone.
For when Abbie Hawkins felt a vibration in her clothes she presumed it was her mobile - only to discover hours later it was actually a real-life bat tucked away in her underwear.
From the moment the receptionist and reservations agent got dressed at 7.30am until her lunch at midday she had no idea at all that the creature was hidden in the padding pocket of her black bra - even though the bat was the size of her hand.
“I did not notice anything as I put my bra on. The night before I had had one or two drinks and I was getting ready quickly.
“The bra was in my drawer but it had been on the washing line the day before,” she said. “When I was driving to work I felt a slight vibration but I thought it was just my mobile phone in my jacket pocket. It was quite a busy morning and I did not for minute think it was anything other than my mobile. But then at about midday she took her phone out of her pocket and still felt something moving.
“I plucked up the courage to investigate and I pulled out a little baby bat. I just lost my breath when I saw it and I did not know what it was at first.”
“Once I realised it was a bat I was shocked, but then I felt quite sorry for it really. It looked very snug in there and I thought how mean I was for disturbing it,”
She said that when everyone in the office crowded round to see the bat it escaped to a dark corner in the office, before her general manager took the bat outside and set it free in the hotel garden.
“I keep thinking how could I have not known it was there? Whenever I talk about it nobody believes me. Thank goodness people at work saw what happened or people may have thought I was crazy.”
Jaime Eastham from the Bat Conservation Trust said the organisation had never heard of a bat being found in a bra before, but that there had been cases of bats being found in a toiletry bag, an umbrella, and the lining of a coat that was not being worn.
She said: “Bats hibernate during the winter but in May and June they have babies and that is when people are most likely to find bats. Bats often roost in trees or under roof tiles - anywhere that is dark or safe. If anybody finds a bat they can call our Bat Helpline.”
Posted on 1:13 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
