Bat Flew In Woman’s Mouth And Now She’s Out Almost $21K: Weird News & Oddities

Sympathies all around go to a Massachusetts woman who’s facing nearly $21,000 in uninsured medical debt after a bat flew into her mouth while she was trying to photograph the night sky in Arizona.

Erica Kahn, 33, has had a tough time of it lately. She lost her health insurance when she was laid off from her job. Still, a bat, part of it anyway, flew into her mouth, and she had it checked out. Her treatment included precautionary rabies shots.

It was a freak accident. The bat flew toward her and somehow got tangled between the camera and her face.

“She screamed, and part of the bat went into her mouth. She doesn’t know which part or for how long, though she estimates it was only a few seconds,” KFF Health News reported.

“It seemed longer,” Kahn reportedly said.

It would.

• Read more: Bat Flies In Woman’s Mouth And It Costs Her Nearly $21K

Mother’s Milk Ice Cream?

Well, not quite. But the New York-based ice cream company OddFellows teamed up with baby products company Frida to create a limited-edition ice cream that “tastes just like mom used to make.”

“The flavor is freshly expressed and oddly familiar — sweet, salty, and smooth with hints of honey and many of the nutrients included in breast milk,” Frida said in an announcement.

The limited-edition ice cream was featured at a pop-up in New York City, and pints were also available on Frida’s website.

• Read the story: Breast Milk-Flavored Ice Cream? Yep. ‘Just Like Mom Used To Make.’

What Was That? A UFO?

It wasn’t. But it was a good guess about the origin of an X-Files-esque spiral of curiosity: a bizarrely lit up shape, almost like a bright cloud, shimmering across the sky in unmistakable UFO fashion.

While the object seen over the skies of Pennsylvania and other northern and eastern states wasn’t an alien craft or even a UFO, it was indeed a partially-classified government operation.

The strange light and shapes seen were the Vulcan USSF-106rocket, launched by United Launch Alliance in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on behalf of the U.S. Space Force. It was no routine rocket launch: it marked the first “national security”-related launch of materials by the powerful Vulcan rocket into orbit, officials said.

The specifics of the rocket’s payload are classified and were not disclosed by Space Force, but the agency did say it included an experimental military navigation satellite along with other items, and that they were successfully put in orbit with Earth.

Here on Earth, the site made for some stunning images posted on social media.

• See photos: Mysterious Spiraling Object Explained

Older Than Dirt

Speaking of space, here’s another one for you: A meteor that ripped through a Georgia man’s roof faster than the speed of sound in June now has a name, and researchers say it is “older than the Earth itself.”

The University of Georgia, which acquired 23 grams of the meteor’s fragments after it crash-landed on June 26 in Henry County, dubbed the phenom the McDonough Meteorite.

At the time, there were speculations an earthquake had shaken parts of Georgia, but the National Weather Service confirmed the sonic boom.

The meteorite pieces were given to a UGA planetary geologist and impact expert for more study.

• Read more: Meteorite That Crashed In GA ‘Older Than Earth’

An ‘Extremely Lucky’ Man

An “extremely lucky” man hit 389 jackpots in a single day and took home $1.8 million from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, casino officials said.

“This lucky streak is one of the most impressive one-day runs in the property’s history,” casino officials said.

Joseph Wagner, an assistant general manager at the casino, acknowledged that “this guest’s incredible day is certainly unique,” but said it shows “just how exciting and rewarding” a visit to the casino can be.

• Read more: ‘Extremely Lucky’ Man Hit 389 Jackpots In 1 Day, Winning $1.8M

Also A Lucky Man

Another Florida man may consider himself extremely lucky after his record feat, though skill and moxie had more to do with it. And the prize was significantly less: $1,000

Python hunter Aaron Mann caught 87 invasive Burmese pythons in the wild in July under the South Florida Water Management District’s incentive program to, in a manner of speaking, just be done with them.

Mann made a bigger dent in the population in a single month than anyone else. The previous record wasn’t even close. Kyle Perry captured 28 pythons eliminated last January. Both Mann and Perry are python removal agents in the water district program.

• Read more: FL Man Has Record Haul Of 87 Burmese Pythons From Everglades

Bare-Handed Gator Wrangling

Also from Florida: A deputy sheriff wrangled an alligator with his bare hands after it took a dip in a backyard pool in St. Augustine.

Video or it didn’t happen? It happened alright.

Deputy Nathan Richardson is seen using a pool skimmer to bring the alligator to the side of the pool. He grabbed it by the neck, then the tail,

It was a juvenile alligator, and Richardson consoled it as he would a child stopped from doing something fun, but dangerous.

“I got ya. You’re fine. I know you’re super mad,” he can be heard saying in the video.

• Watch the video: Florida Deputy Wrangles Gator With Bare Hands

Wild Pig-mentation?

We have some weird pig news for you, too — weirdly pigmented wild pigs, that is. More precisely, the tissue inside some wild pigs harvested in California is a peculiar shade of neon blue.

A wildlife trapper reported multiple instances of blue muscle and fat in wild pigs harvested in Monterey County, California, to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.

It’s not some peculiar quirk of evolution, but a consequence of humans’ efforts to control rodents. Officials said the pigs either ate the brightly colored bait themselves, or the pesticide entered their bodies through prey that may have eaten the bait.

Fish and Wildlife officials are warning people to be wary of contaminated game meat and take precautions to protect loca, wildlife from rodent pesticides.

• Read more: What To Know About Neon Blue Wild Pigs In Bay Area

400-Pound Bear Roams Neighborhood

A big ol’ black bear is roaming around Townsend, Massachusetts town, setting residents on edge. The approximately 400-pound bear has been spotted multiple times, and police are telling residents to take precautions.

That means letting the birds fend for themselves for a bit by removing feeders, securing and storing trash cans, and closing all doors.

Without a reliable source of food, the bear would likely move on, police said.

• Read more: What Police Say About Huge Bear Roaming Neighborhood

Lizard On The Loose: Update

Also from Massachusetts, here’s an update on the massive lizard that escaped its owner in Webster:

The 5-foot water monitor lizard Goose was captured last weekend after roaming around Massachusetts and Connecticut for about two weeks. It’s illegal to keep a water monitor lizard as a pet in Massachusetts, so Goose was turned over to a nonprofit animal sanctuary.

So, everyone can relax now.

Except for bears. Don’t rule out the possibility of a 400-pound bear lumbering around in search of a snack.

• Read more: Latest On Massive Lizard On The Lam