Bats take over this New Brunswick school. Some students say they were even chased
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Some New Brunswick students have been literally dodging bats -- the flying creatures -- while their high school deals with an infestation.
Some New Brunswick students have been literally dodging bats — the flying creatures — while their high school deals with an infestation.
More than two dozen of the winged animals have been found inside Tobique Valley High School’s walls in Plaster Rock, N.B.
Grade 7 student Teagan O’Neil-Gamblin said he first spotted a bat last Friday, after a classmate came running into the classroom to escape.
“I went to the bathroom right when she came in, and I saw (the bat) in the corner of the hallway, and it was like upside down, sleeping-looking almost,” he said.
His mother, Crystal O’Neil, said another parent reached out to her and reported that her child was “chased down the hallway on Friday.”
“As a result, these sonar machines were turned on Friday and it kind of woke the bats out of hibernation,” said O’Neil.
“And it made them a little bit crazy. And then the building’s closed all weekend.”
By Monday, word was spreading about the bats.
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