{"id":388007,"date":"2026-07-06T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:13:13","slug":"family-sues-over-live-bat-in-their-hotel-room-at-nugget-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388007\/","title":{"rendered":"Family sues over live bat in their hotel room at Nugget casino"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California family is suing the Nugget casino after they found a live bat in their hotel room and ended up getting vaccinated for rabies.<\/p>\n

The family \u2014 seven adults and four children \u2014 traveled from Madera County to the Nugget in Sparks, Nev., for Fourth of July weekend in 2025, says a complaint filed July 1 in Washoe County court. The case was first reported by Courthouse News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After they reported the bat to the front desk, an employee caught it and released it, the complaint says.<\/p>\n

Because the animal was not tested for rabies, 10 of the family members took public health employees\u2019 advice to be vaccinated as a precaution, which required four rounds of shots. The vaccinations \u201cwere painful, time-consuming, and caused uncomfortable side effects,\u201d the complaint says.<\/p>\n

The family contends that the Nugget was negligent for the employee\u2019s failure to follow correct protocol \u2014 and because the bat was in the room in the first place \u2014 and that they suffered damages of more than $15,000. The suit seeks that amount plus punitive damages and attorney\u2019s fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California family is suing the Nugget casino after they found a live bat in their hotel room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4846,7,9,8,181,156436,420,2422,10357,7662],"class_list":["post-388007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-accidents","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-reno-travel","tag-things-to-do","tag-travel","tag-weird-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}