The accident scene you really don't want to be sent to

[dianeduane]

After 16-year-old Jacqueline Cossairt of Markle lost control of a sport utility vehicle on gravel-covered Wells County Road 1050 North about 4:30 p.m., it struck an old hollow tree, rousting 80,000 to 100,000 honeybees inside.

By the time Ossian Volunteer Fire Chief Kent Gilbert arrived he found a black cloud of the insects swarming around the GMC Envoy.

“Those bees were mad,” he said. “I’ve never seen bees, especially honeybees, attack like that.”

And those angry bees turned what Gilbert said should have been a 10-minute extrication of the teen who was pinned inside her truck into 45 agonizing minutes as firefighters tried to figure out a way to safely work among the bees.

Cripes, what a nightmare.

Comments

[korenwolf.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who lifts the lid on hive which have been described by a local keeper of 20+ years experience as "very very nasty" I can sympathise massively. She's damm lucky the car remained secure, if they were that pissed off the firefighters would have been looking at a fatality.

In brighter news I should be pulling honey off the hives in the next week or so (some hopefully will be for sale at dwcon :)