Newsroom Intruder 'Bat Albert' Captured With an Empty Can of Crisco

It all went down Friday morning at Kansas daily newspaper The Emporia Gazette

Thank god it’s… fly-day?

The Emporia Gazette’s Mary Ann Redeker definitely had fun with the assignment of reporting about the intrusion of a bat Friday into the Kansas newspaper’s newsroom, a flying mammal quickly nicknamed “Bat Albert.” From the exaggerated headline on down, this is amplified for reader enjoyment:

News and online editor Zach Hacker–a self-described chiroptophobe, or someone who fears bats–tried to go about his morning deadline duties, but was clearly distracted and unnerved by the fat bat, who was just hanging out on the ceiling.

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