Bees!

JuanValdez · Jun 16, 2004

From: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/16/highway.bees.ap/index.html

Truck hauling bees crashes in Montana
Dumps honey, sending bees on rampage
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Posted: 11:08 AM EDT (1508 GMT)

BOZEMAN, Montana (AP) -- A tractor-trailer overturned on a curve on a highway, spilling its load of hundreds of bee hives and unleashing some nine million angry honey bees.

The bees buzzed furiously as driver Lane Miller, his arm scraped to the bone, struggled to flee his rig after it overturned Monday in Bear Trap Canyon west of Bozeman. The truck slid across the highway before coming to a stop between guardrails.

"I had to kick the windshield out of the front of the cab and the bees were on me from that moment," said Miller, 41. "I've never felt so much fear in my life."

Miller walked away from the crash, and two people picked him up and took him to the hospital. Miller underwent surgery on his arm and suffered bruises and about 20 stings.

The state road was closed for 14 hours as crews and beekeepers cleaned up the 512 hives Miller was hauling from Idaho to North Dakota.

In spite of bee suits and extra clothing, beekeeper Gary Clark said he counted about 60 stings of his own.

"Everybody had literally thousands of bees on them, in their hats and on their suits," Clark said. "When we pulled the boxes out, big globs of them would fall on us."

Firefighters directing traffic also suffered stings.

"The bees were so agitated you could barely see the beekeepers or the wreckage itself, just because of the cloud of bees that were swarming," said fire chief Shawn Christiansen.

It wasn't until 3 a.m. Tuesday that a tow truck got in to haul out the tractor-trailer, leaving behind pools of honey from the overturned hives.

State Transportation Department employees dropped sand on the road to soak up the sticky mess.
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ima_drummer2k · Jun 16, 2004

TheFreak · Jun 16, 2004

YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!!!

Isabel · Jun 16, 2004

I can just see Homer Simpson headed towards the scene of the accident to help clean it up.... mmmm, honey....

MoBalls · Jun 16, 2004

BEES NUTZ

wiws316 · Jun 16, 2004

Ay, ?donde esta mi tequila?

pgabriel · Jun 16, 2004

That's about a million bees per person in Montana.

CriscoKidd · Jun 16, 2004

Originally posted by TheFreak
YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!!!
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Please tell me that's a quote from the Michael Caine classic ...

that movie rocks!!

omair · Jun 17, 2004

i dunno what id do if i were him.. so terrified of bees... bad memories...

TheFreak · Jun 17, 2004

Originally posted by CriscoKidd
Please tell me that's a quote from the Michael Caine classic ...

that movie rocks!!
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Actually it's from a Chris Farley classic.

meggoleggo · Jun 17, 2004

hopefully they'll all die when fall comes.

Christopher · Jun 18, 2004

I wonder if a picture of that crash shows up...it must of looked incredible!

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