http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ozzy-osbourne-must-protect-bats-before-converting-barn-into-home-council-says/#EbrxmLAWCA15duU5.01
 
You cannot make this stuff up. 

He has to protect Sharon?

I suppose the real "ultimate karma" would be for a bat vocalist to bite his head off whilst on stage performing metal. 

Yeah, you couldn't make that kind of stuff up.
 
Ozzy isn't the first to run afoul of the wildlife protection laws regarding bats.  On one of the reality TV shows about swarms and infestations, a family bought a house in the country and found out later that it had a colony of bats in the attic. They had obviously been there for some time. The guano was several feet deep in places.  How they or the home inspector missed that...???.. just the smell should have been a giveaway that something wasn't quite right.
 
An exterminator was called in and he informed the family that the bats were a protected species of bat. The homeowners were not permitted by law to force the colony out or even bother them. The bats were a kind of migratory bat and once the colony left on it's own, the homeowner was permitted to take the steps to prevent them from re-entering the attic. The folks had to live with the bats while the bats had their young and raised them to the point that they could fly and leave the attic.

You can spray a little water on them and they will usually leave. A professional cannot do it but a homeowner can certainly spray off his home and if it happens to run the bats off, well se la vie... they will not die, they will just live somewhere else. Put up a bunch of bat houses, you need to lay them on the ground for about a year before putting them up,, handling them as little as possible. People do it all the time, you just don't publicize it and you certainly don't film it or ask the "authorities".
 
I don't know man... they just left. Since they were gone (I would film that), I added screen."
 
BTW, I would not run them off while they had young. I am even hesitant to trap coons or opossum' right now (springtime) and relocate them for fear they may have young. I don't want to carry of a opossum to an area when it does not know where to get food and I am not going to start poking around on it to look it it's pouch... I'm not even getting close to touching a coon. I did see a coon hanging on my birdfeeder in the middle of the night two days ago. I will probably trap it and check it for signs of suckling... if none, it is going far away. The home owner did the right thing in this case.. with babies involved... and it really made no difference to the homeowner to wait a bit.
 
J

bats in the belfry.
 

i approve of this public service announcement.
 
bats do more good than ozzy ever has.....
 

I laughed :D