JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Over the last month, Marlesa Brazil has seen and heard bats all around her apartment.
Brazil said she can hear them flying around from room to room while she watches television. She can also hear the bats crawling in the ceiling while she sleeps, and she even found one bat dead in her light fixture.
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Brazil said there's a problem with her apartment and it needs to be fixed.
"You can hear them at night literally scratching and crawling," Brazil said. "It is probably a whole colony of them."
Brazil called in a company to help with the bat problem and it told her that the animals came into her condo through a hole near the roof. The company also told Brazil that it couldn't do anything to get rid of the bats because they are protected animals. The bats cannot be removed from the condo until bat mating season ends in August.
"It was terrible. It was horrific," Brazil said. "It's frustrating and it's ridiculous."
Brazil said she is so creeped out by the bats that she's actually had to move out of her condo. On Thursday night, Brazil told Channel 4 that she is staying with a friend and has sent her 5-year-old daughter to relatives in Georgia until the situation is resolved.
"It's kinda sad. I miss her. I call her every day and talk to her," Brazil said.
Brazil said she called code enforcement and is trying to look into how she can legally get rid of the bats, but it seems like it?s a problem that is going to take a while to fix.