"Bats... I hate bats"

So... I'm on my way to work a couple of nights ago and I'd taken the skate board with me. There's a bit where I start skating in a grocery shop car park which is on a slope and gather speed then negotiate a tricky dog-leg right then left out onto the street and continue picking up speed on the pavement. It's nice and smooth and there's a gentle incline at the end of the street so I don't have to worry about stopping as gravity does it for me.

This night I was paying the usual amount of attention to the chicane and at the last second spotted something in a low branch of a tree right in front of me. It seems that it's impossible to get away from nature and as I smacked my face into the side of the massive fruit bat I realised the futility of trying to escape the animals of Oz.

It was actually quite funny as it struggled with its huge webbed wings to take flight before it hit the ground but with about 1 foot to go managed to lift ungainly into the air having a thoughful bowel motion right in front of my board that I ended up skating through.

Incidently, I spent the next 3 days thinking that I had rabies......