Now these kids had a bad day!Follow

Man, I think that would definetly make my day worse than it already is!

I agree. The subliminal messaging must destroy whatever sense of intelligence the kids had to begin with.

Heh, one of my grandpa's 'when I was a kid stories' was sorta like this. Only he was bending down to get more rocks when his buddy managed to hit the nest. Four days in the hospital vs. two days for his buddy. Kids-1, Bees-500.

lol...i love your platypus avatar! so cute! hehe

bees scare me...ive seen really really big hives in like walls of apartment buildings, think theres a hive somewhere in my house too cuz yellow jackets fly around all the time, any way to check for sure? or should i just shoot em down 1 by 1 with my raid gun? ^^;

I think it's yellowjackets, I could be wrong but I think they are the type who make their nest in a hole in the ground. When I was younger I made the mistake of running over the nest with a lawnmower. After getting them nice and pissed off I stuck my leg in the hole and had to go to the hospital with numerous stings on my leg, thigh and crotch area. Still have nightmares about that day.

My cousin had a story like this in her old condo. There was a panel where there used to be an air conditioning unit and, from behind it, she could hear what sounded like a dripping sound. So she calls my uncle to take a look at it and make sure something isn't leaking back there. She's at work when he comes over and puts his hand against it but it doesn't feel damp yet he can hear the same sound. Finally he takes a prybar and pulls away the panel revealing a massive wasp's nest build into the wall void. He runs out of the room, getting attacked by irate wasps the whole time and slams the door, shoving a towel up against it on the floor and an exterminator was called who proceeded to fill two vaccuum bags with wasps saying it was easily the largest nest he'd ever seen. Wasps in her closet, wasps in her dresser among the clothing, wasps in the sheets.. wasps everywhere. Apparently the condo was on a semi wooded lot and they has been in the wall void for quite some time, filling the entire area with nest.

My cousin slept on the living room sofa for about two months after that.

Yellowjackets, bumblebees, and at least one kind of larger wasp nest underground whenever possible.

I've been really careful dealing with these buggers for the past six years, due to the fact that I developed an allergy to the stings. (It sucks, whatever gets stung swells to about 3 times normal size and loses all sense of touch for about 2 days).

Before that, I used to knock down a lot of wasp nests. Those things proliferate like crazy in south Georgia.

I've actually only run across about a dozen real hornet nests in my lifetime. I define a real hornet nest as: Completed (no half-built nests with open facings), larger than a cantaloupe, and has live hornets active in and around the nest. People have a tendency to steal the damn things for trophies. I have no idea why; they just do. Rednecks....

The story appears to be about honeybees. They're the only ones I know of that would make a nest reaching 500 lbs. Yellowjackets make some pretty big nests given enough time, but those are mainly hollowed out areas. Plus they're aggressive enough to get discovered way sooner than that. I've had a tire go through into yeloowjacket nests a time or two. Praise be to John Deere for enclosed cabs.

Honeybees aren't usually so mean. I'm surprised they had to cordon the area off. They'll usually sting if there's honey in the nest, but not so aggressively as to have to cordon off the area. Then again, there was a 500lb. honeycomb so there were lots of bees. Probably bored.

I'm still boggling at the size of that thing.

LOL! Good question Johpiel.

Well, at least they weren't those killer bee's that have been popping up in and around Texas. Now, those things are agressive!

Ouch. We only had a small problem with Yellow Jackets when I was in Sherman, TX. Of course after we beat them in football every year, they decided to leave us alone.

Ex. Denton High School Yellow Jackets for those who probably aren't going to get the pun. Sherman High School Bearcats (where I went to high school).

Yeah, the red wasps are a b*tch. Of course I try and avoid bee's, wasps, and jackets (except when its cold).

They may have been Wu Tang Killa Bees, They on the Swarm!

Second, Jakstrw, wtf were you thinking? How old were you?!

"When I was younger I made the mistake of running over the nest with a lawnmower. After getting them nice and pissed off I stuck my leg in the hole and had to go to the hospital with numerous stings on my leg, thigh and crotch area..."

That is awfully fun though.

He's referring to an underground nest, most likely yellow jackets. And yeah, his story is real plausible. I know a couple of people who've done that.


Benadryl, tobacco, and ammonia are all common items to most households that help out with stings.

Side notes:

1. If you can manage to get up to a yellow jacket nest, you can stick the business end of a shop-vac in the hole, turn it on, and collect a few hundred little nasty buggers. The hard part is figuring out how to get them back out of the shop-vac without suffering a bit o injury. Don't ask how I know this...

2. If you park a running mower over the top of a bumblebee nest, they'll keep flying out into the blade until there aren't any left. Sweet revenge...

Hey! I'll use my ankle barbs and sting you good, bi[i][/i]tch! Step off!