Something Awful Forums (Gold Story: Guy's Anti-Bee Quest)

Wow, that was scary..Obviously the swing set wasn't used much to have that bee hive. Too bad he couldn't have them moved to a better place..I used to hate bees and always kill them, but since I heard the fact that if all the bees were gone, that within three years, life on this planet would be gone..Bees are needed, just not where a child plays..

That was funny, scary and downright dangerous but I don't blame the guy at all. The photos were fantastic so much detail.

We had a swarm like that in our motor pool once when I was in the US ARMY. A beekeeper came and took them away and was glad to have them. When they swarm like that someone who knows what they are doing can easily capture the swarm and start a new hive. I don't know how to do it, but there are people who do. BTW: 2 quarts of aeorolized 87 octane gasoline such as he threw on the fire at one point could easily create a 50 foot fireball under the right conditions. The US military's 2d most powerful bombs, just under nukes, are fuel air bombs. They have a secret process whereby the fuel (gasoline works well) is instantly vaporized then ignited a fraction of a second later. Our hero of this misadventure could have easily accidently partially recreated the circumstances underwhich these massive explosions occur. Everyone in the backyard could have been killed.

Woah. =o That's a LOT of bees! How on earth did that many bees suddenly manage to appear on their swing? That means they were living inside their house, right? The pictures of the guy are pretty funny, but I feel sorry for the bees P= I like bees... Anyway, interesting post, thanks and happy mylotting! xx

I'm dying! OMG this was great! But the guy was an idiot. I had a problem with bees on my swing set when I was about 12. I no longer played on the swing set but I their incessant buzzing drove me up the wall. I calmly walked into my bed room and pulled out a full can of aquanet hair spray (the stuff that would hold your hair in place even if you were skydiving without a parachute) and my lighter. I could stand a good 10-12 feet from the swarm and still coat them effectively with the hair spray. Once I was sure they were all stuck together in the gooey o-zone unfriendly spray I tied a piece of paper around the end of a stick and lit it. No gas, no lighter fluid, just paper and a stick. And bam! Napalm the bees! And what was even better is that since their wings were all sticky they couldn't fly away but the fire burned out as soon as all the hair spray was burned off so they didn't all die but they all fell to the ground buzzing and kicking their little bee legs in agony! To which after they were all off of the swing set I did my own version of La Cucaracha on them poor helpless little bee bodies and I never saw a bee near my swing set ever ever again.

The pics didn't show up for me, but I got the gist. So get this guy on mylot! We can use his brand of humor and storytelling to liven up the place - especially on weekends! LOL

hi as a beekeepers daughter these pics make me feel very sad as the bees were swarming and thats a natural for bees. instead of getting a beekeeper to come and take the swarm away the guy just killed all of them for nothing. To begin with when they are swarming they are not aggressive so the beekeeper would have saved all the bees and not left any behind.I realize they do not belong on a swing set but these people overreacted and killed bees that did no harm to anyone and well it just would have made a lot more sense to'have gotten a professional bee keeper to save both bees' and people from any stings altho swarming bees do not usually'sting.

yucks... this is really horrible to see so many bees.. i ve seen such things in my real life... there is a honey comd in a tree in our college.. it is so big as there are about 1 million bees....