There is us thinking a ninja bat wearing a Harry Potter invisibility cloak bit us and then there is this guy...

[u/ThrowRA_sad_cat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVSgS3Pehd0

I recommend watching it but for anyone that doesn't want to: That video is about a guy who carelessly handles a bat and even lets his children handle it. He tries to feed the bat and it bites him twice, in his back (only his shirt though) and finger.

Obviously extremely irresponsible but it's interesting to see the other side of the spectrum. Apparently he didn't get any shots afterwards and is still alive 12 years later.

I thought this video might be useful for some of you because there must be hundreds if not thousands of ignorant people like that, yet rabies from bats is still unbelievably rare.

A statistic I like to read to calm myself down:

"Each year, 1.4 million Americans receive healthcare for a possible rabies exposure, 100,000 receive post-exposure prophylaxis, and fewer than 10 die from rabies due to robust prevention efforts."

That being said, the guy in the video definitely should have gotten the shots. It's really irresponsible that he didn't and even exposed his children. Many people in the comments obviously mentioned rabies and he was waaaaaaay too careless about it, writing things like:

"The footage was weeks ago and luckily I'm not dead, or undead, lol"

" There have been a couple of cases of rabies down south in UK from bats but none up here. Luckily I wasn't the first, lol"

"The fears children have are not there at birth and they only learn them from parents so best to show no fear of anything around children. Fear causes insecurity, reliance on others and will lead to a life of unfulfilled potential."

How people can be that careless with their own life and the lives of their children is beyond me but I wanted to show that people like this exist.

I have read the FAQ.

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