well, you could always to what a lot of people do when they have an unwanted critter....call the police. I don't know what people expect of me...to handcuff the little critter? Or wingcuff him? I can't SHOOT him, for heaven's sake.
My city is pretty urban, but we do have some cows. I would rather deal with the bat than with cows. They smell fear (and yes, I am a horse person...horses I am in, cows, I am out) and capitalize upon it. I got called to some escaped cows and arrived to find about four of the big bovines wandering amongst a neighborhood. It seems that someone installing a pool had removed the back fence that kept a pasture full of cows contained. The cows found the entrance to the neighborhood and made a break for it. I attempted to shoo the cows back through the opening (they were about two houses down) but only managed to move them onto the neighbor's front porch, where they amused themselves by alternately peeking in the windows and eating from the planters. I felt I had to do something, so I took out my ASP baton, shook it at them, and said, "Ya'll git." in my best Texas accent, so that maybe they would be fooled. They weren't. They led me on a chase of about three square miles that included a schoolyard, a library, and an Old Folks' home in addition to the neighborhood. The guys on my shift gleefully listened to my radio traffic, "Uh, central, I need a little backup here, the cattle are now hightailing it south toward Main Street..." before finally coming to lend me a hand.
Give me a bat any day.