Sports are a very human activity, but animals do try to join in from time to time. This usually results in a dead animal and a bunch of irritated humans who are now late for something.

4 A Bat Stops a Basketball Game

Somehow a bat found its way into the middle of a college basketball game, reducing a group of adult male athletes in peak physical condition to a bunch of terror-stricken cartoon characters.

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If this had sound, we'd be on the hook for thousands of spit-damaged computer keyboards.

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The game was stopped for several minutes while the players threw towels at the bat like old women in an instructional video about kitchen fires. Eventually, someone in the building who actually attended the classes he or she was enrolled in decided to turn off the lights, and the bat seized the opportunity to flap itself the hell out of there. Because for a creature that doesn't see well and relies primarily on enhanced hearing, being trapped in a basketball arena is a lot like getting caught in the center of a tornado while halogen spotlights burn your retinas from your skull.