Thanks for another German lesson, Richard. Yeppers, kept going round and round, making that chain, that hangs down to turn the fan on, go round and round from the wind it made with it's wings. In answer to your other question, we really don't know how they got rid of it. They must have gotten it at lunchtime, when no one was around. Probably didn't want to hear all the comments, or screaming, that would have been done, had all 350 people been on the floor. Flutter Mouse, how cute that sounds :o) Lynn Richard Emlin Reed wrote: In German and in PA-D, a bat is a Fledermaus. Many German words are compound words; i.e. they put two words together to make a new word. Strangely enough, while "maus" means mouse, which a bat resembles, there is no English equivalent for "fleder". Flutter comes to mind; but flattern is the German word for flutter. So a bat is a Fledermaus. And the bat made a whirlwind around the ceiling fan? So how did the maintenance men take care of it? Did they slide the can along the floor until they reached the outdoors; or did they slide a piece of cardboard under the can, upright it, and carry it outside?