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Author Topic: Kids Attack Quarter Ton Bee Hive With Rocks! Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2004 07:13 PM                     Dam, and I'm alergic to bee stings from the female bee.... One this big is almost hard to comprehend..... The article fomr CNN and the link..... http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/08/16/bees.reut/index.html __________________________________________ Rock-throwing kids anger 120,000 bees Monday, August 16, 2004 Posted: 12:43 PM EDT (1643 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (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. _____________________________________________ They ought to tear the building down around the hive and put it on display somewhere. Mark  |  IP: Logged Robert L. Fischer Expert Film Handler Posts: 145 From: Montreal, Quebec Registered: May 2004 posted 08-16-2004 08:30 PM                    Ugh, that would freak me out to find out that 120,000 bees were living in my wall.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-16-2004 08:45 PM                     Damn! What a stupid stunt! Sure brings back memories... ...like the time my brother and I were elementary school brats in Burkburnett, Texas while my father was away in Okinawa and the dying days of Vietnam. Well. To get to the actual story. My brother and I are walking home from school, but stop at this old, abandoned house next to the railroad tracks. We took a look inside and found this big hornets nest hanging from the ceiling. It seemed as soon as we found it we were throwing rocks at it. The whole nest came down to the floor in a thump, unleashing a cloud of mad yellow jackets. Both of us dashed to get the hell out of the place. But my brother's foot went through a rotten floorboard. I was already outside and he burst out into the lawn swarmed around the head and chest. We couldn't get all of them off. Some guy stopped his car and ran out to help. He had a brush and literally had to comb those wasps out of my brother's hair!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-16-2004 08:52 PM                  Yeah, kids sure are fucking stupit! I remember very well when I was about 13, my friend and I found this yellow jacket nest in the ground and decided to stomp on it to close it. Well, of course, that only got them mad as hell and as we stomped, they went up our pant legs and started stinging us. You never saw 2 two 13 y/o boys strip naked soooo fast and run home nude in your life! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 08-16-2004 09:03 PM                     We finally find the source of Phil's nude fetish!!!  |  IP: Logged Greg Routenburg Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Toronto, ON, Canada Registered: May 2003 posted 08-17-2004 01:53 AM                     I believe those kids are providing a perfect example of the Darwin principle, People contributing to the gene pool by trying to remove themselves from it. If only the bees had won.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-17-2004 02:02 AM                     Greg, ROFLMAO. Funny story Phil. Now can anyone imagine that stunt being staged again with Phil at his current age? Hubba Hubba! I wonder if the building had rights to the hive, and thus the possible honey supply. They may have been able to harvest it? AJG  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-17-2004 06:31 AM                        "Always stop & think: does this look like something Wile E. Coyote would do?" WHO IS TEACHING THESE KIDS?  |  IP: Logged Ben Holley Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Texas Registered: Feb 2004 posted 08-17-2004 03:07 PM                    sure everyone thinks these kids are stupid...but who can say they didnt do this as a kid. although I wouldnt have thrown rocks, i would have blown it up or set it on fire...just a part of growing up  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 08-18-2004 11:17 AM                        I remember 2 bee instances , one as a curious kid , wanting to invade the hive and take their freshly made honey, australian natural bush honey is one of the worlds best. Protection was needed , so I donned heavy clothing and covered myself with dry cleaning bags , and in for the raid. The bees were ready , and in the first 8 seconds , over half of them were inside the drycleaning armour and stinging ! I bolted , ripping of the plastic , suffering several stings and loosing my favourite pocket knife. Following that , I was convinced the supermarket was a far better place to buy honey. 20 years later............... while on a beach camping trip , and in a very dry year our campsite was invaded by bees, they posed no real threat , but a close friend I was with had bad allergies to them. After a day or two we discovered they were after water , I , playing the bush scientist decided to fill a few dishes with water, a place them away from our campsite , thinking the bees would all move over there, not realising that bees talk ! word travelled , 80% of the bees in West Australia were told of the abundance of water where we were. The following day ........... I would say we had about 90 billion bees in the camp!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-18-2004 11:18 AM                     Actually several exterminators I know will discharge a twin 12 guage shotgun into the ground above a inground wasp nest and the percusive shock kills them dead Also a spray bottle with a 10% soap sollution will kill them if they get coated as it stops them from abosirbing oxygen through there skin I have used one of those lawn fertilizer sprayers that mix water with fertilizer bottle filled with soap on a stick aimed at there nest overnight and in the morning the ground is govered with the dead ones and the nest is so waterlogged it collapses Also if you have a good electrical circuit an large bug zapper near there nest can provide an interesting evening light show  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-18-2004 08:31 PM                     PLOP!! There goes another pellet of chlorine falling into the gene pool! For ground hornets, ants, termites or just about any other icky thing that lives underground, just pour a gallon or two of gasoline down the hole. You don't even have to light it. Just pour and walk away. I don't know any underground critter that can live through that. (Except for, maybe, those things in the movie, Tremmors!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-19-2004 03:57 PM                        quote: Randy Stankey For ground hornets, ants, termites or just about any other icky thing that lives underground, just pour a gallon or two of gasoline down the hole. Not a good idea. First, you will likely be violating environmental regulations. Second, if you ever try to sell the property, and it fails any mandated testing for residual chemicals in the ground, you will have rather massive clean-up costs to deal with before you can sell the property. Old gas stations, metal-plating shops, and dry cleaners are often hit with these issues. A gasoline tanker truck flipped over and burned in Rochester last summer. They are still cleaning up the mess, hauling away truckloads of contaminated soil. The cleanup costs must be enormous.  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-19-2004 05:43 PM                     ...and these people didn't notive the bee-hive before? derrrrrrr  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-23-2004 05:42 PM                     Although I agree with John Pytlak, I have previously destroyed many groundbee hives in the way Randy described. Actually, the best time to destroy any hive is about 15 minutes after sunset so as you're guaranteed to kill every last one of those sons of bitches as they settle in for the night.  |  IP: Logged

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