Kicker - Bats in the box office

NICK EICHER, HOST: Moviegoers who showed up for a Friday night screening of The Batman in Austin, Texas got a bit more reality than they expected.

One man posted this reaction to social media:

AUDIO: I’m at the Batman movie, and there are bats in the movie!

Did you catch that? There are bats in the movie. Meaning an actual bat in the actual theater.

Staff went so far as to pause the film and contact animal control.

No reports of anyone bitten and we should point out here less than 1% of bats living in the wild have rabies. But that’s kind of easy to say from where I’m sitting!

The theater offered customers a refund, but most chose to stick it out, watch the movie, and share space with the bat.

But now thanks to the prankster, going forward everybody gets closer bag checks before anyone—or any flying mammal—gets in.

REICHARD: Thanks, Prankster.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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