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Mysteriously, there's always more batshit than bats to supply it.

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Actually, they've been here the whole time. We have hundreds in my neighborhood- they come out at sunset and will swoop down to my swimming pool, which is really a lot of fun to watch while you're in it.

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Gardner Canyon is actually quite pretty

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Gardner Canyon is half way to Tucson, it's about 30+ miles from the border. It's also an extremely popular hiking/camping/ATV area and nowhere near the smuggling routes. We have bats all over Southern AZ- they're quite commonplace here (which is a good thing considering that they are voracious insectivores). If these nitwits are so damned worried about protecting the beautiful areas in the Santa Rita Mountains they should point their AR-15's at the real villains who would destroy the area- the board of directors of the proposed Rosemont Copper Mine.

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And for bonus points: damaging efforts at conservation of an at-risk species.

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EGGSACTLY!

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C'mon, you'd have to be as blind as a bat to mistake biologists for scary brown people.

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The bats mat very well be Mexican Free-Tailed Bats <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_free-tailed_...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... . Such bats have infiltrated the USA so extensively that they have become official state bats in Texas and Oklahoma.

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The biologists were using recordings of bat sounds to draw the objects of their study into the area. Unfortunately, this also attracted the militiamen to the area as the echolocation of bats sounds uncannily like the screeching of Representative Michelle Bachmann.

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<i>“We really don’t want them here.”</i>

But...but....SECOND AMENDMENT!!!1!11

It's in the bible.

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It's not their fault. At the monthly dipshit meeting they should have raised the fact that they were unaware of what "batshit patrol" was supposed to mean, though.

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I can't even penguin to prescribe this

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Please oh please oh please let these militia guys wander into Mexico.

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Not according to the militia. Because of their genes (which they received at conception) they can only be doers of bad stuff. Or something.

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This just proves that we need to build the dang fence! . . .

Slightly to the north of Oklahoma.

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While they're waiting for the Mexicans from Guatemala to invade, maybe these turdblossoms could do a little landscape maintenance? That part of Arizona really looks like shit.

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