Iowa Woman Finds Bat In Coffee Maker

[Steven Johnson]

http://www.kcci.com/news/17572951/detail.html

It wasn't just the caffeine that gave an eastern Iowa woman an extra jolt when she had her morning cup of coffee. It was the bat she found in the coffee filter.

Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Health said the woman reported seeing a bat in her house but wasn't overly worried about it. They said she turned on her automatic coffee maker before she went to bed and had her coffee the next morning.

They said she discovered the bat in the filter in the coffee maker when she went to clean it out that night.

Officials said the woman, who wasn't identified, underwent treatment for rabies.

They said the bat was sent to a state lab for testing but its brain was too cooked by the heat of the brewing water to determine if it had rabies.

[Cheryl Jones]

Poor bat!

[reeffish1073]

I am just curious how the bat got in the filter basket with out her knowing it.

john

[Cheryl Jones]

Hey, remember the woman who put on her bra with a bat inside and didn't notice for hours?

But in this case I think she loaded the filter with coffee the night before and set the coffee maker to start automatically. Maybe bats are attracted to coffee?

But I don't know how it could have gotten into the filter basket. In all the coffee makers I know, when the dry coffee compartment is closed, there is no place for a bat to enter. Makes me wonder if the filter compartment had been open and bat was there when she put the coffee in the filter the night before. But how she not have seen a bat when she scooped in the coffee?

Cheryl

[Bill Putnam]

Bat Brew? What a concept!
Can I get a Salamander Latte?

[Mike Hood]

I'll bet Starbucks doesn't have that one!