# Bat toilet emergency

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528 "2003-08-12T00:23:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![rodmunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@rodmunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rodmunch)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/21 "2003-08-12T12:39:37Z")

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well that thread has just brightened my day up “Change of plans, the bat’s alive” has to be the greatest thing ive ever read

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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/22 "2003-08-12T13:11:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by hlanelee \*  
> \*\*Bats are small animals. Bats are not endangered animals. Flush it and forget about it \*\*

Yeah, but if it clogged, it could be tough to explain to a plumber.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/23 "2003-08-12T13:30:50Z")

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Human: Echo location my ass.  
Bat: Okay.

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/24 "2003-08-12T14:14:47Z")

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Always with the bottom, eh **lieu**.

So how big a bat was it? **hlanelee** thought it was a small one, but the image I had until that bit of the thread was of the bats around here, which have a wingspan of about 5 feet.

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**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bat-toilet-emergency/194528/25 "2003-08-12T16:54:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Marley23 \*  
> \*\*Darn, I was hoping this thread was about the Caped Crusader’s plumbing problems… \*\*

OK, so I wasn’t the only one who read the thread title and started mentally humming the Batman theme.

“duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh…”

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