Romania: Bats invade Transylvanian classroom

[AsahinaKimi]

(09-02) 06:31 PDT BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) --

There was no sign of Dracula, but students in Transylvania did get a visit from dozens of bats that flapped through their classroom.

The students at Csiky Gergely high school in the western Romanian city of Arad were about to take an exam Friday morning when they found bats flying around the room. Others appeared to be sleeping with their wings spread out on the floor.

School official Mirela Aldescu told Romanian daily Adevarul that the creatures had probably flown in overnight through open windows. She says that rather than disturb them they took the exam in another classroom.

Transylvania was home to Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula," which has spawned dozens of movies and superstition about garlic, holy water — and vampire bats.

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[liberal N proud]

1. That is almost funny

[Taverner]

2. "Others appeared to be sleeping with their wings spread out on the floor."

That doesn't sound OK - were the bats sick?

I thought bats always slept hanging upside down...

of course there may have been no place to hang from

[NV Whino]

3. Had that happened here

They would have called in the SWAT team.

[4_TN_TITANS]

4. Note the European respect for animal life...

they just let them sleep it off and went to another classroom. Here there are teachers who would have knocked them off with a broom and stomped on them.