Bat Bites Missouri Woman Sleeping In Bed
'It Was Horrible,' Woman Says
POSTED: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
UPDATED: 10:30 pm EDT July 13,
2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A woman is recovering after being bitten by a bat in her home early Tuesday morning, Kansas City TV station KMBC reported.
Shirley Alcorn (pictured, left) called emergency crews to her home on the east side of Kansas City around 2:30 a.m.
Alcorn said, at first, she thought she'd been bitten by a bug while lying asleep in her bed. But then she reached out and touched the creature.
"When I touched it, it was horrible. I threw it on the bed and jumped and ran, and then I saw it on the bed, and that's what it was -- a bat," Alcorn said.
The bat had bitten Alcorn on her right buttock. She dialed 911 and, wearing only a nightgown, ran from the house.
When police arrived, they found the small mammal hanging on the drapes above Alcorn's bed. It was captured and euthanized, and will be sent to a lab for rabies testing.
Alcorn said she plans on sealing up her chimney and having crews check her attic for any more of the creatures.
"They're ugly, ooh they're ugly, little rats. That's what it felt like, that a rat was eating on me," Alcorn said.
Alcorn will also have her daughter stay with her for a few weeks while she recovers from the incident.
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