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That was only the scouting party. Now you're in real poo poo.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:11 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Also, not a bee person, but isn't a bee swarm worth money to a bee-keeper? Like you call them and say "come get these bees" and they will do their bee thing and they will pay for them? I'm not sure they're honeybees. Can someone with more knowledge say for certain? I'm surprised the landlord wouldn't pay for an exterminator. You should've gotten the poo poo stung out of one of you, and then threatened to sue. While dangerously lighting highly combustible materials of course.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:14 |
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When I was a kid, I helped my dad keep bees, so this is both hilarious (you two are idiots) and sad for me. If it was a hornet's nest, I'd only laugh. Bees swarm when a second queen matures and somehow convinces a good chunk of a hive to take off with her. Swarming honeybees are actually least likely to sting, although their sheer number can make a sting or two inevitable (hence the necessity of bee gear). Generally, they're too gorged on honey and bee barf to do anything but crawl all over each other. Catching a swarm is fun, but you have to be really gentle with it. I once had an entire swarm fall on me as they were cut from a branch about 25 feet above my head. The sound of thousands of bees descending on you rapidly from above is the stuff of nightmares (something like wwwwaaaaaaauuuUUUUUUZUZZZZZZ). With bee gear on, it's like a roller coaster though -- you're safe enough, but it still feels dangerous. ^^^ quote:I'm not sure they're honeybees.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:14 |
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HOLY CRAP. I seriously wish I could get away with doing crap like this in my backyard. Unfortunately we live right next to the state police.  5'd and subscribed.
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I feel sad for the bees, they are just bees. They just wanted to be alone, they just wanted a HOME 
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:16 |
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Sweet Monkey Jesus, this is the coolest thing I've seen. The Paint thinner and Gas were overkill, but hilarious overkill. Brilliant.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:16 |
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For some reason I think you should be the new marketing director for Vault energy drinks.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:18 |
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This is absolutely awesome in every way  I can't stand bees, so I'm glad we've discovered man's last, best hope against the shadowy, buzzing legions stinging doom.Edit: 4.98 vote average
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:22 |
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Amazing pictures, amazing fireball of death, and one big chunk of bees. I feel bad for the bees, though. One question: What was the experiment on the science poster board? I can't make it out from the pictures.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:23 |
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FLAMING bees diving like Kamakazi would have been the cherry on top of this magnicent sundae. Voted 5 for awesome photography alone.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:23 |
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Haha, you are going to end maimed horribly or dead with engineering skills like that!
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:27 |
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bort posted:They look like honeybees. I thought honeybees were bigger and rounder?
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:30 |
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Those poor poor bees  I got a good laugh at the decline of bee population post.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:31 |
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I did something like this when I was younger, although not nearly as cool We had three separate bee hives in our backyard, hanging off the monkeybars my father and I had welded together. These things were huge. Covered most of the yard. Well, one day, the bee started invading the house, so we decided to get rid of them. Back then, I had one of those 3 gallon waterguns (not Supersoaker; some knock-off brand), which I filled with lighter fluid. Sprayed the entire set of bars, and lit it. Once the thing was on fire, I could just spray where I wanted more of it, and I had a small inferno in the yard within minutes. Killed off all the bees within a few minutes, as well as most of our nice grass Great thread. That's some skillful photography.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:31 |
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 I am just learning how to use this camera and post-process in CS2. Jesus. I had no idea I could get this kind of detail. I feel kinda bad for the little fuckers now. Oh well, they made their fatal mistake when they went into my bro-in-law's back yard. There was no way they could coexist in a neighborhood full of kids. Like I said the beekeeper would have been an option, but not on a holiday weekend.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:32 |
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Flannel Blob posted:Like I said the beekeeper would have been an option, but not on a holiday weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8SSZ2gu8s No burned grass as well
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:36 |
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Florida right? Right. Still, if a 40lb trailer hitch doesn't get the point across I guess they had that coming. I applaud your Final Solution of the Bee Question.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:40 |
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Any idea what they were doing clusterfucking the swing like that?
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:42 |
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thedaian posted:What was the experiment on the science poster board? I can't make it out from the pictures. Hopefully something along the lines of "How do we get rid of a swarm of bees from a swing set?" It's worth a 5 just for the picture of the bucket of gasoline in mid flight followed by the mushroom cloud.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:47 |
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Awesome pictures. I wonder why they just flew back to the pile and didn't attack, the bees I had the luck (bad) to meet were loving aggressive, they would attack people just passing near them.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:51 |
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Flannel Blob posted:
These three are my favorite pictures out of the bunch. Haven't laughed this hard all day.  I salute you.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:52 |
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That OP was loving beautiful. My only regret is that I am at work and couldn't laugh appropriately! You, sir, are my new hero
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:53 |
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That was awesome. Did you ever figure out why they were congregating there?
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:56 |
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Pooky posted:That was awesome. Did you ever figure out why they were congregating there? It was christmas!
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 03:57 |
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WOW I just thought of something, you should have knocked the bees into the fire with the hitch and then threw the gasoline into it the fire.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:00 |
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This thread makes me so unbelievably happy. When I was just a wee Grimnak, I was playing on my own swingset, just having a grand old time, when OUT OF loving NOWHERE some bee stings me. I screamed so loud my dad heard me from inside the stone-walled church across the street. I'm not allergic, just a giant pussy. But still, I was like 5 or something and I wasn't sure what had happened, I just knew it loving HURT. So thank you for a semblance of swingset bee revenge. My inner child is finally appeased.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:04 |
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Oh man. This is amazing. but sadly, now you have 10,000x bad karma to make up.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:04 |
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Pyromania at its finest. The Blaze of Glory wins again
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:06 |
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Let this be a lesson to everyone on the importance of good photos. There are some people who take photos of themselves baking cookies, and still somehow end up with out of focus pictures. Not only that, but they somehow decide that an out of focus picture of cookies is ok, and proceed to post them. Imagine if this story had blurry out of focus pictures. It would be 5% as awesome. The photos make the story people! As a photographer and male human being (although not AS male as you, apparently), I applaud your photography skills.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:07 |
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bort posted:When I was a kid, I helped my dad keep bees, so this is both hilarious (you two are idiots) and sad for me. If it was a hornet's nest, I'd only laugh. Do you have enough to make an Ask/Tell thread about this? Even your little story here is very interesting. I'm trying to not care about the widdle bees. The photographs were gorgeous.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:07 |
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I can see one of the survivors reporting back to Bee Command: Bee General: He threw WHAT at you? Bee: A loving TRAILER HITCH! Bee General: Cavemen, I tell you. What happened next, soldier? Bee: He got out a god drat grill, man...and...and... Bee General: DAMNIT, JENSEN, I NEED ANSWERS! Bee: HE THREW PAINT THINNER AND GASOLINE AT US! Bee General: ...good GOD man. Does he know how many antennae I have to touch?! Does he know how many larvae will grow up alone?! I was afraid it would come down to this...LAUNCH THE WASPS AND YELLOW JACKETS!
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:07 |
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Haha I just noticed the science project board. Project: The effects of fire on bees. Hypothesis: MOTHERFUCKERS WILL BURN
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:12 |
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How ironic to see you worrying about your sister's children before needlessly slaughtering thousands of innocent bees. You, sir, deserve to be stung.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:12 |
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 You heartless bastard. 
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:15 |
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Holy poo poo, I was not expecting you to be lighting massive fireballs with gasoline underneath the swingset. I hate bees and am glad to see what's coming to them.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:16 |
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This just made the front page of digg... but I must say, this is the most breathtaking display of violence against bees. Nice work. God drat the Bee-menace.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:16 |
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Those pictures are amazing. I don't think the incident could have been better documented. edit: #1 on digg already.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:17 |
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SWEET BEESUS! ^^^^^ Also, though I feel for the bees, and a beekeeper would have been a better alternative, I can see why you had to do what you had to do and also it was totally awesome.
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| # ? Dec 24, 2006 04:18 |
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When I was young, we had a bee infestation in the bushes in our front lawn. We did the responsible thing in getting the bees hauled away and then tearing down the bushes so they wouldn't come back. "Redneck" is a minor term for what you did, "effective yet retarded" would be apropos. I don't know why GBS thinks you're awesome, I think you created an even bigger hazard for children than the bees, especially since coming out of a neighbor's house means they aren't gone anyway. I just want to let the non-American goons know we're not all this backwards.
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