Originally Posted by
nkfrench
I was just riding along and THUMP a bat with (obviously) defective sonar hit my sternum.
The sonar wasn't defective, only the judgement of the bat. I've been canoeing at dusk and have been buzzed by bats...like fractions of an inch from my ear. They were after the mosquitoes keyed in on my carbon dioxide signature. Your's was probably chasing something else and you just happened to run across its path.