This woman has the guts to scare away protected animals just to make them go away and stop them from pissing around her property. But sadly the police is on the bats' side and decided to punish this poor woman.
Lately, bats are closely discussed with the deadly Hendra virus which caused a dozen of horses dead or be put down. Scientists believe their urine, blood and birth discharges carries Hendra virus and thus, people are afraid of them. Besides, the bats are in flocks and according to Robyn Burgess, the woman who used air horn to shoo away the bats, she said the bats noise wakes them up as early as 4AM, and this colony of bats tend to discharge their urines around their property forcing them to renovate part of their house.
Other residents around the neighbourhood said they've been tormented by the bats for years and were fed up by that.
I think the problem itself wasn't the bats, since we couldn't really just catch them or hurt them without breaking the law. I think it's about the law, because we could do nothing to stop them from flying around over our heads, and I think the government should do something in order to control the population of the bats, so that we can prevent further spreading of the virus.
Again, we don't know about how many bats are carrying Hendra virus, and how many are not. So we still need more studies to support in what way we could settle the situation quickly without mass hysteria.
Source [Brisbane Times]
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