When you’re on a weekend away in the wilderness with pals, please avoid the campfire guitar strumming unless you want to risk rabies.

While scientists have yet to test the validity of this assertion, we would advise you to stay safe and stick to a harmonica or fiddle.

The unlucky victim, one Derrick Skou from Oregon, endured one bite before a friend shot the bat with a BB gun.

Skou took the bat to Multnomah county health officials who confirmed the nocturnal creature as being rabid.

Maybe this particular bat had a really annoying ex-girlfriend who used to play too much John Mayer?