Bronco_Beerslug
05-03-2007, 12:33 PM
A good lesson here when buying a home, physically inspect everything yourself!
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3,500 lbs. of bat guano found in attic (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_fe_st/bat_droppings_home_1)
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
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In other news...
Robbers Superglue Victim to Exercise Bicycle (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070503/od_nm/safrica_crime_dc;_ylt=AmnapaaQMmP5DynhIbScYswuQE4F )
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday.
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070503/2007_05_03t095902_450x302_us_safrica_crime.jpg?x=3 80&y=254&sig=Ebrqe99hkSZPWCgrmA6.IA--
Naked cyclists take part in a march through central Madrid in this June 10, 2006 file photo. A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
SAPA news agency said the attackers, dressed in suits, hijacked a man in his 50s and forced him at gunpoint to take them to his home in Johannesburg.
"The victim was then forced to strip, after which he was superglued to the seat of an exercise bicycle, his hands were superglued, as were his feet and then his mouth was superglued shut," SAPA quoted Mark Stokoe, a spokesman for emergency services Netcare 911, as saying.
The man was rescued about three hours later when his partner arrived home, SAPA said.
South Africa is battling one of the world's highest crime rates which has prompted concerns that violence might mar the 2010 soccer World Cup, which the country is due to host.
A police spokesman could not immediately comment on the report. No one at Netcare 911 could be reached.
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3,500 lbs. of bat guano found in attic (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_fe_st/bat_droppings_home_1)
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
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In other news...
Robbers Superglue Victim to Exercise Bicycle (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070503/od_nm/safrica_crime_dc;_ylt=AmnapaaQMmP5DynhIbScYswuQE4F )
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday.
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070503/2007_05_03t095902_450x302_us_safrica_crime.jpg?x=3 80&y=254&sig=Ebrqe99hkSZPWCgrmA6.IA--
Naked cyclists take part in a march through central Madrid in this June 10, 2006 file photo. A gang stripped a South African man before supergluing him to an exercise bicycle while they ransacked his house, according to a report Thursday. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
SAPA news agency said the attackers, dressed in suits, hijacked a man in his 50s and forced him at gunpoint to take them to his home in Johannesburg.
"The victim was then forced to strip, after which he was superglued to the seat of an exercise bicycle, his hands were superglued, as were his feet and then his mouth was superglued shut," SAPA quoted Mark Stokoe, a spokesman for emergency services Netcare 911, as saying.
The man was rescued about three hours later when his partner arrived home, SAPA said.
South Africa is battling one of the world's highest crime rates which has prompted concerns that violence might mar the 2010 soccer World Cup, which the country is due to host.
A police spokesman could not immediately comment on the report. No one at Netcare 911 could be reached.