This happens across the country with bats, along with ground squirrels and chipmunks that everybody seems to want to feed by hand and other ground rodents that folks seem to gravitate to feeding. We just cringe when we see people in a park gathered around to feed the critters. Many diseases are carried by these rodents. One of our volunteer 'jobs' was to stand at a popular area in a national park where there was a lot of feeding to keep folks from feeding them because there were instances of people getting bit. There were plenty of sign around but as always, folks don't think it applies to them.
