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Kids plus rocks equals 120,000 angry bees
Sat 14 August, 2004 04:19
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 say.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 on Friday.
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.
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Kids plus rocks equals 120,000 angry bees
I love the title! Reminds me of the days when me and my friends would do the same stupid thing.
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Sakkra stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
Actually, it's probably a good thing the kids did that in the long run. Especially since it was causing the building to falter.
If it was really that much of a problem, it would've been taken care of anyway. Without a swarm of pissed-off bees going around stinging everyone and sending people to the hospital.
Go, go, human stupidity!
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I want some of what Ruvyen was smoking when they wrote this:
If it was really that much of a problem, it would've been taken care of anyway. Without a swarm of pissed-off bees going around stinging everyone and sending people to the hospital.Go, go, human stupidity!
Um.. When the building collapsed, the hive would have gone with it.. angering the bees.
The only difference is that there would probably be more people around, or something. 
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Pirotess:
Um.. When the building collapsed, the hive would have gone with it.. angering the bees.The only difference is that there would probably be more people around, or something.
Not to mention the smell of fresh honey.
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Ruvyen wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
If it was really that much of a problem, it would've been taken care of anyway. Without a swarm of pissed-off bees going around stinging everyone and sending people to the hospital.Go, go, human stupidity!
By the sounds of it, they didn't know the hive was that large. If it was built into the wall, only the entrance would be visible, making it look like just an ordinary beehive.
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Mr. Gainsborough got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
They were pretending to be Ed, Edd, n' Eddy.
Only they were lacking the TV trio's suave sophistication.
