Green Bay Gamblers viciously assault defenseless bat

[IceCap]

Again, you guys are all reacting to this bat thing with the benefit of hindsight and the Google. While you're all sitting around looking up websites and calling Bay Area Animal Control Specialists to see how to handle a bat, these kids just know it's a bat, and are trying to get rid of the damned thing. I'm fairly certain that as soon as one of them delivered that cold, callous, fatal blow to poor little Batty there, the backup goalie didn't come running out of the dressing room with a printout yelling "HAY GUYS JUST THROW A TOWEL ON IT AND IT'LL ST oh hey."

You shouldn't need an "internet printout" to tell you not to thrash an innocent creature in front of thousands of fans and AND the media, it should just be common sense.

It's a bat. They're freaky looking. And it just sort of appeared in one of the last places you would expect to find one. Swatting at it's a perfectly reasonable response. Yeah, I think everyone would have preferred it if the bat had gotten the clue after the first attempt and just flew away, but whatever. I can't bring myself to care for a bat.

[Viper]

Surprise, surprise... now the Gamblers have announced a promotional event based on the bat incident.

WLUK-TV in Green Bay reports that fans can buy a toy bat in the team store for $2. Fans can keep the bats or toss them on the ice when the Gamblers score their first goal in any game.

The bats from the ice will be resold in the team store. The proceeds will go to the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.