Kids + Rocks = Very Angry Bees

[40Hands]

Bees

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kids throwing rocks stirred up more trouble than they bargained for when they dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building, authorities said on Friday.
An estimated 120,000 bees held residents of the apartment building and nearby homes hostage in Santa Ana, California after the children pelted their 500 pound (227 kg) hive with rocks on Thursday, Santa Ana Fire Captain Steve Horner said.

Several people, including firefighters, news reporters and a TV cameraman, reported being stung and at least two people were taken to a hospital with multiple stings, Horner said.

Firefighters cordoned off a four-block area to allow the bees to calm down and return to their hive. An exterminator later fogged the hive and vacuumed out 40,000 dead bees, then set a trap for returning worker bees, of which about 80,000 were captured, Horner said.

The quarter-ton honeycomb, which may have accumulated inside the apartment wall for years, was so big it was threatening the structural integrity of the two-story building, Horner said.

Holy $hit thats alot of bees...and alot of honey...mmmm...honey.....

 

[Spikesoldier]

owneedddddddddddd

 

[GasX]

When I was a kid there was a HUGE nest hanging from a branch in the community pool clubhouse parking lot. I remember scoring a direct hit with a fist sized rock and running for my life. We got away clean and the nest was abandoned the next day - especially after a few hundred more rocks had pelted the nest's remains into oblivion...

 

[Anubis]

holy crap

 

[40Hands]

when i was a kid (here in VT) i was walking through the woods with my friend and i stepped next to dead tree and my foot crushed an underground beehive...I have never run so fast in my life....amazingly we escaped with out one sting...we went back to investigate and we could see the cloud of bees from a safe distance...

 

[bobbybe01]

500 pound (227 kg)

The quarter-ton honeycomb, which may have accumulated inside the apartment wall for years, was so big it was threatening the structural integrity of the two-story building, Horner said.

:Q

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
when i was a kid (here in VT) i was walking through the woods with my friend and i stepped next to dead tree and my foot crushed an underground beehive...I have never run so fast in my life....amazingly we escaped with out one sting...we went back to investigate and we could see the cloud of bees from a safe distance...

I had a similar experience that resulted in me getting stung over 20 times!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Hopefully some of the idiots were stung.

Many people can not tell the difference between a wasp nest a bee nest.

Very few bees will make a nest out in the open.

Also, wasps are meaner by magnitudes. They know that they can sting and not die. Bees only get one chance to lay down their life, therefore they are more picky about who/when they attackl usually in self defense only.

 

[blakeatwork]

Wow... that's huge!

I'd be getting a long-ranged weapon before trying to take it out... and the running... fast..

 

[neutralizer]

Yea... I stay away from bees every since one time I threw my trash away and it landed on a bee and it stung me

 

[Tiamat]

God thats a lot of bees, Id like to see some Pix of that building + Nest. 500lbs of honeycomb is too much for me to imagine

 

[JetBlack69]

:Q

 

[Ryan]

I always support the safe removal of bees. The suck them up with a vacuum like machine designed specifically for bees, and then they release them in the wild somewhere else. It's not their fault that people don't keep up with their houses/build them properly so that there are no holes for them to get in.

That' said, I have a small beehive in my backyard. They don't bother me, I don't bother them.

 

[Fritzo]

Whahahahahaha....I was about to post this Those kids deserve a "PWNED!!" badge....anyone have pics?

 

[maziwanka]

in the end, the hive was removed. i'd say it worked out....

 

[silverpig]

Bees = I have no problem
Wasps = They die

 

[Juno]

I remember when I was a young camp attendant.

A few friends and I walked on the track to the woods. We saw a beehive hanging on a tree branch. Friends except me were throwing rocks at them. A swarm of bees were definitely angry and were directly going at us. We ran for our life but we saw a pool nearby. We jumped into the pool and stayed there for like thirty seconds. We checked it out and the bees were flying around us. We stayed our faces on the top of the pool in need for air. The bees disappeared like five minutes later.

We were in the pool with our clothes for about five minutes.

The camp counselors got us in the trouble for swimming in the pool without a lifeguard on duty.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
when i was a kid (here in VT) i was walking through the woods with my friend and i stepped next to dead tree and my foot crushed an underground beehive...I have never run so fast in my life....amazingly we escaped with out one sting...we went back to investigate and we could see the cloud of bees from a safe distance...

Yea, I had a similar experience when I was a kid, though probably not of the same magnitude. I was probably about 10, was down in the woods behind our house with my younger brother and the kids of one of my moms friends. Youngest was probably 6 or 7. Anyway, somebody stepped on a ground hornet nest, and they came swarming out. I yelled "run" and led by example Got out with only 1 or 2 stings, then turned around to discover that one of the other kids didn't understand run, and was standing their flapping her arms like a psychotic chicken. So I had to run back in and get her out which cost me an additional 12 or 15 stings

Found a big (basketball size) hornet nest in a pine tree on our property once. A friend and I stood back 50+ feet or so and shot it up with our pellet guns. Huge swarm of bees, but they never made the association between us and the projectiles ripping through their home. Nest was later abandoned.