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Listeners Save DJ’s Life
August 26, 2022
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A listener wouldn’t know to care about you, unless, at some point you reached them emotionally, through heart or through humor.
So, when WKKT (96.9 The Kat)/Charlotte morning personality, Sarah Lee, went live on Facebook to share something odd that had just happened to her as she and her kids were on vacation in Nashville, things turned from light-hearted to serious, in the time it takes a light to turn off when you hit the switch.
She didn’t get on the carousel at the Nashville Zoo because she gets motion sickness from rides that go in circles. But just before the ride began with her kids on it, something like a bat out of hell, flew from above and collided with her leg. She recalled, “it hit me hard, as if a toddler ran into me at full speed.”
And the thing that hit her, was indeed, a bat, now lying lifeless like Tyson Fury in the last round of the fight with Deontay Wilder, where he was knocked out cold. And like Fury, the bat would shockingly but impressively open its eyes, getting up and coming back for more.
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The Zoo workers were now aware and called for back up, as the bat flew up, hit its head on the now moving carousel, getting stunned again, but this time doing that military crawl on what looked like elbows to tuck itself underneath the ride.
It taunted Sarah Lee through the rod iron fencing, like a possessed demon with razor sharp teeth opening and closing its jaws, and all of this captured on her iPhone. She wrote it off as a fluke of a moment and not one to be concerned about because having a collision with nature, while bizarre, was now just going to be a great story to share on her morning show the following week.
She stopped in at membership services to let them know that she was the one who got hit by the bat, and to her surprise, the look they gave her, was like, “What bat??” They had a medic check her out and sent her on her way and that was that.
When she went live on Facebook sharing her daytime run-in with this nocturnal creature, she was jovial, light-hearted, even laughing as she set up the circumstance, but less than 20 seconds in, listeners of the Paul Schadt and Sarah Lee morning show began chiming in with great concern.
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From being surprised that she was leaving the zoo with no contact info taken or given, to sharing bat encounters themselves, all of the commentary had this in common. “A bat doesn’t need to bite you or scratch you for you to get rabies.”
And it was in that Facebook Live that her life was spared, as the advice prompted her to seek more medical attention than a quick glance at a zoo exit. The physician in Franklin, Tennessee informed her of an even greater bat mystery; that they can bite you or scratch you and you may never know. They insisted she get home to North Carolina to begin rabies treatments immediately.
While googling about bats and people, she recognized the consistent shape of the bat bites to a newly fresh rash-looking mark on her own leg, and within 30 hours of the incident, she was taking six different shots, including Tetanus, right to the area of contact.
One thing about bat bites, and rabies she found out, is that of all the cases of rabies in humans, every single last one of them was fatal, well except this one odd case where a man did survive, but his quality of life, like a boxer knocked out cold, who, even though he opens his eyes, lights are on, but nobody’s home.
“Grateful and blessed beyond measure,” says Sarah Lee of her audience who cared enough to tell her she was in grave danger, when she naively brushed it off like it was nothing. “They literally saved my life.”
A listener won’t be engaged enough to care about you, unless consistently, you’ve impacted their life with heart and humor.
The Paul Schadt and Sarah Lee morning show on iHeart’s 96.9 The Kat has consistently reigned supreme in the Queen City dating back before covid, but since then becoming the highest rated Country music morning show in the country.
See Sarah Lee’s Bat encounter yourself here
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