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Swarm Of Bees Helps Shoplifter Escape Kmart
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| 6-16-2003
| rhinohunter
Posted on 06/16/2003 10:22:54 AM PDT by rhinohunter
A swarm of honeybees paid the ultimate price so that a shoplifter could escape a Sedalia Kmart.
A man was spotted shoplifting by store security, who followed the suspect into a bathroom to confront him. But when personnel opened the bathroom door, about 100 honeybees buzzed out. The suspect apparently let the bees loose when he was in the bathroom.
"He probably started yelling 'Bees! Bees!' or whatever the case may be, then created that big diversion, then got out," said Cmdr. John DeGonia, of the Sedalia Police Department.
According to a police report, the man escaped with about $60 worth of CDs, perfume, batteries and a pair scissors.
Store employees used bug spray to kill the bees.
The buzz shocked workers and customers alike, but none of them was stung.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bees; kmart
I wonder if he was inspired by that great Duke film classic, "Rio Lobo"?
To: rhinohunter
>>>>Store employees used bug spray to kill the bees.
What will PETA say?
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posted on
06/16/2003 10:26:14 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)
To: dighton
I saw this title and thought you must have posted it. ;D
To: rhinohunter
didnt this just happen at a walmart somewhere too?
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posted on
06/16/2003 10:32:05 AM PDT
by
tomakaze
To: rhinohunter
LOL. Wonder if he stole the bees too?
If not the bees probably cost more than his loot.
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posted on
06/16/2003 10:34:35 AM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: rhinohunter
the man escaped with about $60 worth of CDs, perfume, batteries and a pair scissors.Aw, what a sweetheart. Always thinking of Mama.
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posted on
06/16/2003 10:39:38 AM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Gun-control advocates are the NRA's best recruiters.)
To: hellinahandcart
I saw this title and thought you must have posted it. ;DI got transferred from the crime beat to the business section.
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posted on
06/16/2003 11:19:18 AM PDT
by
dighton
(NLC™)
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