What's wrong with you?

Everyone's got hobbies, a guy at work keeps bees. Today he drove his one ton flat bed to work and the bed was filled with bee boxes.

Maybe they were sleeping at 6:30 when he came in, but by 9:00 am there was a swarm covering his truck and the cars on each side. I mean a wad of bees as big as a basketball hooked to your door! By 11:00 the cops made him go home.

Imagine sitting next to that guy at a red light?

Oy ....

Did they want to go for a ride?? what was the purpose of driving around with them?

Wait, WHY did he bring a truck full of bees to work? I mean, I've brought a something full of something to work plenty of times that's probably not work appropriate.... but come on!

Does he have kids? What do they bring in for show and tell?

I would be willing to bet he was either picking up the bees from a field where they had been used for pollination, or was relocating hives on his property. Other bees in the area can smell the honey and are interested, and try to rob the hives. He may have had robbing screens up but you will still get a swarm trying to get in there to get the honey.

I don't bring mine to work, but I'm glad to hear his bees are doing well!

He had a swarm on his handle, seperate (hopefully) from the bees in the hive bodies.

I've carried my bees around many times in the truck. You put a screen on the entrances at night so the bees stay in the boxes during the day.

You should bring your Honey Badger to work, you know, as a counter measure.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: You should bring your Honey Badger to work, you know, as a counter measure.

Or a swarm of super-smart, genetically enhanced honey bees programmed to do your bidding and armed with high-output lasers where their anteni would be.

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It's been a dream of mine for ten years...

A few years ago, in the dead of a California summer, a tractor trailer full of hives jack knifed on the freeway during rush hour and some of the hives burst open.

A similar story can be found here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2746963/posts

My dad's a mailman, and one day while sorting out the mail for his route somebody else dropped a box of bees in such a way that it broke open. The bees were understandably pissed and they made their displeasure be known to everyone in the post office. Dad's route was just about sorted, so he grabbed what was left and sorted it on the fly, enabling him to escape unscathed.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: You should bring your Honey Badger to work, you know, as a counter measure.

But Honey Badger don't give a E36 M3.

keethrax wrote: My dad's a mailman, and one day while sorting out the mail for his route somebody else dropped a box of bees in such a way that it broke open. The bees were understandably pissed and they made their displeasure be known to everyone in the post office. Dad's route was just about sorted, so he grabbed what was left and sorted it on the fly, enabling him to escape unscathed.

Funny I put a hornet's nest in my mailbox because I had a suspicion that our mail person was opening some of our mail and hijacking my GRM. I would get letters from UCF, the military, etc that all seemed to be opened very carefully and resealed. I would also get copies of GRM fairly late, looking like they've been read, and smelling like they came from the john. Two days of pissed off hornets and our mail hasn't been tampered with, it could have been the complaint I put in too, but I like to think the hornets did the work.

And who drive's a truck full of bees to work? I mean seriously you are just asking to get your ass kicked by a co-worker who is "allergic" to bees.

sounds like a good way to take a day off....

I am allergic to bees. I used to haul cargo for UPS when one of their airplanes was broken or they had too much cargo. I often flew boxes containing 5,000 honey bees. I treated them with the utmost respect.

Bees on a plane?

In reply to MitchellC:

Yeah, bees in the plane. They had to ride in the cabin with me. In the nose or wing storage areas they could get too cold. At the time I had not yet developed my allergy to them. None the less I did not relish the idea of them getting loose.

GrantMLS wrote: Does he have kids? What do they bring in for show and tell?

My wife got sent home for bringing uranium to show and tell when she was in school.

That is all.