This came from a friend of my sister’s. She had forwarded it in a Word doc and that was just awkward so I’m posting it here. I haven’t edited any of the text, so it’s in first-person voice, but that’s not me.
So I’m using my bbq this weekend… so I thought I’ll clean it up..I know there are bees coming from under the cover so I thought I’d kill them, obviously…so heres the BBQ in question
Now I know these bombs aren’t for bees and that but I thought I’ll suffocate/smoke them out.
So here is the weapon of choice and delivery system.
I thought I was pretty smart hehehe designed to be easily manoevered under the cover of darkness… so then I release the weapon of buzz destruction.. The sound from under the cover was incredible!!! You could hear it 12′ away easy… Then I ran like heck….
Coming back few mins later to see the death toll…
Was at least 2″deep mass grave
I continued to remove the cover and to light the bbq to give it a clean when I noticed some fatty looking substance on the top of the side shelf thing…. Bit weird.. I clean it before I put it away for winter and no way was there fat there so I begun to wonder……
NO….. it can’t be could it?
I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find the HQ.
MORE PICS!
AND ON ANOTHER NOTE
We think the queen flew away…. either that or a small child has wings and has been living in the hive coz that thing was huge!
Too bad the honey and comb are unusable due to chemicals and the grill was saturated in chemicals as well.
Yeah, in truth that was kinda dumb. Still cool to look at, though.
If it had been MY BBQ, I would have contacted trained/experienced beekeepers to come and humanely capture the bees, for transfer to an apiary, then I would have harvested some fresh honey from those combs.
Bees are really our FRIENDS, and they do many wonderfully good things for mankind.
It is wrong to kill them.
We must do what we can to protect the honeybee.
YoU kiLLeD uS…
We WiLL bE bAcK…
ExPeCt Us…
VeRy SoOn…
Scorpio…
STOP TAKING OUR HONEY YOU ARSEHOLE!!!
WE WORK VERY HARD TO THROW UP ALL THAT STUFF!!!
Scorpio7, stfu, they are bee’s ffs.
Well, let’s look at it like this: It’s a creature that has set up ‘shop’ on some of my property, and, when confronted about it, becomes violent. Now, you can give me all sorts of lectures about ‘They’re just frightened’, or whatever. But, if there was a homeless person sitting on my grill, who tried to stab me when I told him to scram? I’d gas him, too.
Although you prolly didn’t know but, yeah a bee keeper would have come for free and sorted it out for you. Right now in California we are experiencing sudden hive death. It mysteriously kills the entire hive. This has really bad consequences for an agricultural state as bees do most of the pollinating.
Thanks for the “back-up,” Mapes.
When there are no more bees on this planet, human life will also end, eventually.
That statement could have been shortened to ‘Human life will end, eventually.’
I have a sneaking suspicion it’s not going to be the bees that do us in.
You’re right, Ash.
When all human life ends on Planet Earth, it will probably be because of something we did to ourselves.
As Pogo once said, “We have met the enemy… and he is us.”
http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm
Another clueless Idiot!
Those VER IMPORTANT Bees could have been relocated and survived another day to pollenate the trees, flowers, vegetables.. pretty much EVERYTHING we eat and breath!
Nice job you IDIOT! next time you want to cook your pathetic little hotdog take a Fing look around you
and contemplate how that food, air, and everything flowering and green around you got there…. certainly not any of your doings!.. MAN!!.. I can’t stand ignorant people!!
Calm down Paco, it’s just cool looking pictures from an Internet chain letter email.
I agree with shawn B. Killing a hive is pathetically ignorant thing to do. Duhh look at da mean bugs I think I will kill um cuz day might sting me. To busy gaming on your computer and watching SciFy to experience nature or to know that 80% of all the bees in the US have mysteriously died. Thanks for contributing to their demise Jackass!
your and idiot lady, your problably illiterate and lazy and don’t have a hoot of sense outside of your hum-drum suburb trak housing or trailor.
Amazing that I keep getting retarded replies to this post. It’s just some cool-looking pictures, people, the “story” has nothing to do with anything and are from some chain-letter email someone passed to me.
Ok in defense of the “killer” she had no idea the mass quanity of bees she would be killing or she probably would have taken other steps. Saving the bees is a wonderful thing. But there is no way she could have known about the hive w/o being “eaten alive” Even though we all believe in the good cause we have all killed “a” bee at some point in our life and she just thought she was gonna kill a few to protect her family.
How truly sad. If you were uninformed, you may think the hive was a threat to you. But as soon as you lifted the cover, you would have been more startled than the bees and escaped without a sting. I am a beekeeper and have experienced a similar hive built in a compost bin.
If anyone ever encounters something like this, just call Animal Services or the Police. They will direct you to a bee keeper who will come and remove the hive for free. That is a very easy hive to remove. And they will probably give you a free jar of honey.
Honeybees are vital to our agricultural system. If ya like your fruits and veggies, be kind to them.
Hear, Hear, Tina!
Good post!
you don’t kill them stupid!!!!!!! we need them for different purposes. Get someone to come and take them away(smoke them)
If everyone like you killed them we would have no flowers, gardens ect!!!!!
I swear you people can’t read. They weren’t my bees, I just posted the pictures someone send in a random email. *sigh*
I believe you, halr9000.
What insanity! this miserable little toad slaughters bees that are desperately needed foir the world to survive.
All you had to do was call your local beekeeping association. What a damn fool!
When folks are SCARED, they seldom think rationally.
Your answer to the problem is the correct and rational solution, of course.
Wow!! I’m a bee lover ,, and i was just logging on to read about all the wonderfull things that bees do for us ,and i bumped into this,,Now I’m very upset..some people are just soooo ignorant!!!
Err hello people? This is not the behaviour of someone who is scared, for those defending the OP. This is someone who has found mother nature interfering with their barbecue and is getting annoyed that they’ll get behind on their cleaning schedule and is actually quite proud of what they’ve done. I quote, ”I thought I was pretty smart hehehehehe” – otherwise why would you post it for the entire world to see??
Idiot….
More like 29% not 80%, stop lying to your self and do your homework before trolling a site. Saving the environment is important, but for god’s sake you all sound like stereotypical tree hugger nutjobs
I’m not a “tree hugger,” nor any kind of “nutjob.”
I’m just someone who realizes how important bees are to the ecology of Planet Earth, and who is saddened by the way the bees in the article were “removed” from someone’s private property.
The owner of the barbeque could have found a better way to remove the bees, and one that would have preserved the comb (and the honey therein).
Also, that comb took a very long time to “construct,” so it wasn’t as if that barbeque was used “frequently,” at all.
I’m shocked that anyone would do something so stupid and ignorant at a time when bee populations are in crisis and then post photographs it on the net.
If you were pretty smart as you claim to be you would have got a beekeeper to remove them safely and alive, instead of going to the trouble of putting pesticides effective for 3 months on an item you planned to prepare food on.
Um. I think the angry responses are directed at the person who killed the bees, not you (the person who posted the pics). I hope YOU would never do such a senseless thing.
I agree with the person who said this is not the act of someone who is afraid–I’ve seen people afraid of bees and they don’t take the time to devise contraptions for killing bees (nor do they say “hehehe” about their carnage.
Perhaps if more people who are wise about bees help educate the public, there will be fewer in the Kill em’! crowd. We can only hope. What ruffles my feathers is the selfishness of the person who did this–couldn’t wait one day to use your grill that you hadn’t used all season? Really? There are so many people who would have loved to rescue those bees! I’ve been looking for ages. *sigh* It would have been a win win win to skip the poison–you get rid of the bees, a beekeeper gets a new hive (and honey!) and the bees get to live (and do the job only they can do best–which benefits us all).
I hope the bee killer who sent your sister, who sent you this email, sees all these comments! I hope s/he learns a thing or two. I hope s/he has a change of heart. I hope s/he makes a better choice the next time–IF there is a next time.
Very cool pics (of the comb, not the “mass grave.” Would have preferred a different ending to the story.
SAD.. too bad people still find it funny to kill even the smallest of creatures. I wouldn’t want bees in my yard, I get freaked out when they fly around me but I would of called someone to remove them, not gone out of my way to buy poison and killed them… Shoot it’s just sad that people don’t think of the damage to out earth..
Yes they are our friends. i shook ones hand and he didn’t sting me. fascinating!
@friend of bees:
LOL!
You’re simply an ignorant person. You were afraid of honeybees and they won’t harm you. Would have been relatively easy to move them, or start a hive of your own and get pure honey every year.
Try to not be so paranoid and afraid of things you don’t understand. The “homeless person with a knife” was nonsense and generally a poor analogy.
But don’t worry, we all do stupid things now and again and sometimes (like in your honeybee killing incident), we even act like assholes.
JB
Nashville, TN
WOW! I read a few of the comments and I have nothing to say other than, I enjoyed looking at the pictures. That was crazy. I would have gone nuts if I would have seen that! I’m glad nobody was hurt while getting rid of the pests that took over your outdoor play area!
@Jessica Duncan
“I’m glad nobody was hurt…”
Somebody WAS hurt: An entire colony of bees was slaughtered, for absolutely NO legitimate reason, due to ignorance and unfounded fear.
Cool picture, idoit tree hugging fools one day maybe all you liberals will open your eyes and realize it is not the buffalo days everythime someone kills a animal. Survival of the fittest.
@Ranger
Human beings would not have “survived” for as long as we have, were it not for the “tree huggers.”
May God bless them.
Honey bee stings
A honey bee that is away from the hive foraging for nectar or pollen will rarely sting, except when stepped on or roughly handled. Honey bees will actively seek out and sting when they perceive the hive to be threatened, often being alerted to this by the release of attack pheromones (below).
Although it is widely believed that a worker honey bee can sting only once, this is a partial misconception: although the stinger is in fact barbed so that it lodges in the victim’s skin, tearing loose from the bee’s abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the skin of the victim is sufficiently thick, such as a mammal’s. Honey bees are the only hymenoptera with a strongly barbed sting, though yellow jackets and some other wasps have small barbs.
The sting’s injection of apitoxin into the victim is accompanied by the release of alarm pheromones, a process which is accelerated if the bee is fatally injured. Release of alarm pheromones near a hive or swarm may attract other bees to the location, where they will likewise exhibit defensive behaviors until there is no longer a threat, typically because the victim has either fled or been killed. (Note: A true swarm is not hostile; it has deserted its hive and has no comb or young to defend.) These pheromones do not dissipate or wash off quickly, and if their target enters water, bees will resume their attack as soon as it leaves the water.
The larger drone bees, the males, do not have stingers. The female worker bees are the only ones that can sting, and their stinger is a modified ovipositor. The queen bee has a smooth stinger and can, if need be, sting skin-bearing creatures multiple times, but the queen does not leave the hive under normal conditions. Her sting is not for defense of the hive; she only uses it for dispatching rival queens, ideally before they can finish pupating. Queen breeders who handle multiple queens and have the queen odor on their hands are sometimes stung by a queen.
The main component of bee venom responsible for pain in vertebrates is the toxin melittin; histamine and other biogenic amines may also contribute to pain and itching.[1] In one of the medical uses of honey bee products, apitherapy, bee venom has been used to treat arthritis and other painful conditions
PS Hive collapse is very common and experts don’t really yet understand why it happens. But my beekeeper friends tell me that once the Queen leaves the hive, the rest die. I doubt this gentleman killed those bees – they were probably already dead.
Just sayin’…
Really people..all dat smack talking. Us “humans” who are the only ones that cut down trees, make paper, then use them to write “Save a Tree” on them…have the nerve to talk and call people names for killing a hive of bees. You all sound like a bunch of idiots!! We all guilty of something stupid, but to put others down for it, makes you worse than the person who killed the bees.
Real smart . Dumb people suck!!!
@Glock
That’s why I only date “dumb” women.
They suck, and beautifully…