CT: GRANDMOTHER BITTEN BY BAT ON 84TH BIRTHDAY
<p><pi><b>This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.</b></pi></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Wednesday</p>\n<p>Bridgeport, CT</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>sound with woman's grandson, exterior video of home, image of bat, image of grandmother, video of connecticut zoo, sound with zoo spokesperson, sound with health director</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--</b><b>SCRIPT PROVIDED BY AFFILIATE</b>--</p>\n<p> "It was right here on the Upper East Side that a very special celebration over the weekend was interrupted by a very unusual party crasher."</p>\n<p> "We were celebrating my grandmother's 84th birthday and she got bitten by a bat."</p>\n<p>You heard it right.... (SAME SHOT)</p>\n<p>...Elvin Agosto -- better know around here as Gus --- (2-SHOT / CLIP# 8328)</p>\n<p>...says when he and his family showed up to mark a very special milestone, they never expected.... (BIRTHDAY PIC)</p>\n<p>...for this to turn his grandmother's birthday -- very much like a bat itself (%%)-- upside down. (LIVE BAT HANGING UPSIDE DOWN)</p>\n<p> "Here comes us with the family knocking on her door and what's the first thing she says -- you're not going to believe me but I got bitten on my</p>\n<p>finger by a bat. So I was like, wow, grandma -- so what did you do with the bat, and she said, I killed it! And I was like, you killed a bat?" (DO NOT COVER)</p>\n<p> "She told me, she's like, look in the trash. I look in the trash and the bat's right there and I was like, wow." (DEAD BAT)</p>\n<p>He says the bat had come flying through an open window.... (WINDOW / CLIP# 6158)</p>\n<p>...and his grandma caught it with a curtain, but got bitten in the process. (LIVE BAT)</p>\n<p>So he says they took her to the hospital..... (TIGHT OF GRANDMOTHER)</p>\n<p>...and she's now undergoing a series of shots to prevent rabies. (RABIES VACCINE)</p>\n<p> "The health concerns are not to the extreme that you might think, but still proceed with caution."</p>\n<p>City officials here at the Beardsley Zoo today.... (SIGN / CLIOP# 6148)</p>\n<p>..using the incident as a *teaching* moment.... (GROUP SHOT / CLIP# 6129)</p>\n<p> "They should not be touched by any means by your hands."</p>\n<p>...saying you won't find vampire bats around here.... (VAMPIRE BAT / CLIP# 6137 )</p>\n<p>...but rather big and little brown bats. (LIVE BAT PIC)</p>\n<p> "Bats are part of our habitat, they do help control our mosquito population, so that's a good thing."</p>\n<p> "Everybody knows her by "grandma" -- Got it -- ha ha."</p>\n<p>Gus says another good thing.... (SAME SHOT)</p>\n<p>...even at 84 his grandma's still "spreading her wings and having her way" (FAMILY PIC)</p>\n<p> "Grandma, you wasn't scared? She was like, no, that thing was in my house, I got to get it out. Ha, ha, ha." (BOOST AUDIO)</p>\n<p><></p>\n<p> "And city officials say if a bat comes into your house, call for help and let animal control do the rest."</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>CONNECTICUT BATS ANIMALS RABIES BIRTHDAY MEDICAL HOSPITAL TREATMENT </p>\n<p></p>