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Bees Swarm Couple After Car Crash
LEX18.com ^ | July 27, 2016 | LEX18.com

Posted on 08/03/2016 8:27:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - A quiet summer night in Laurel County got shaken up by a loud crash, and a swarm of bees.

Neighbors say they could hear the screaming all the way up the hills.

People on Patton Spur Road don't see many cars come down the dead-end street.

But last night, Gary Anderson watched from his porch as a purple Tracker veered on and off the pavement.

"Then he passed probably going about 35-40 miles an hour, pretty fast really. And all the sudden, I heard a big boom," said Anderson.

He says the driver, Noah Elkins, crashed right into a fence. He hit the utility pole with such force that it's still in pieces in the field.

But worse for Elkins and his passenger, Priscilla Simpson, he also knocked over a bee hive.

"They said he was hitting things, banging on stuff, throwing his arms up in the air. Screaming and just making a really big scene," said Deputy Gilbert Acciardo with the Laurel County Sheriff's Office.

Anderson says Elkins ran into his yard and started spraying the hose on himself and Simpson.

"I didn't know what he was doing, but I told him he needed to get out of that water. I didn't know he was getting eaten by bees, I thought he was just high," said Anderson.

Once ambulances arrived, Simpson told police that they in fact had taken several pills before getting on the road. They had gotten on that road because they were trying to find a swimming hole, which was miles away.

"I think they learned a valuable lesson. Hopefully not to drink and drive, and even more than that you don't disturb a hive of bees," said Acciardo.

Anderson guesses that more than 300 swarmed the couple when they first crashed, which is why instead of jail, they went to the hospital.

Elkins was charged with driving under the influence, and Simpson was charged with public intoxication. They're both due in court next month.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Humor; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: accident; bees; crash; drugs; dumb; intoxication; kentucky; laurelcounty
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To: smokingfrog

And the Dodge Super Bee was a Mitsubeeshi?
(rimshot)


21 posted on 08/03/2016 9:24:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

An old Japanese saying: When the tears are in your eyes, that’s when the bee stings.


22 posted on 08/03/2016 9:33:25 PM PDT by heights
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To: tumblindice

ha ha


23 posted on 08/03/2016 9:42:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"I didn't know he was getting eaten by bees, I thought he was just high."

Dang, what kind of drugs are they doing these days up in the hills?

24 posted on 08/03/2016 9:47:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bramps
"Don't drink and hive."

You win the Freepy Award for Pun of the Week !

Congratulations !

Leni

25 posted on 08/03/2016 9:52:03 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Trump, White House.....Hillary, Jail House.....Bernie, Nut House.....Obama, Outhouse !)
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To: bramps

What, no pics of Dan Akroyd and John Belushi ?


26 posted on 08/03/2016 10:11:37 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Grandpa, tell us that story again about when you took Grandma on a first date. Did the bees really chase you down into an underwater ship wreck, back up through a cactus patch and all the way up into the Mr. Brown’s grain Silo? Wow!!”


27 posted on 08/03/2016 10:31:10 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I lost all sympathy right here -—> “they in fact had taken several pills before getting on the road”


28 posted on 08/03/2016 10:42:10 PM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I hate when that happens...


29 posted on 08/03/2016 10:58:29 PM PDT by 4Liberty (We SEE Trump tossed every contrived hurdle. Hillary given every absurd mulligan.THAT'S WHY-GO TRUMP!)
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To: MinuteGal; SunkenCiv; All

I don’t know if this story counts as Catastrophism, but this pun is worth a chuckle. ;-)


30 posted on 08/03/2016 11:13:39 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: bramps

“Don’t drink and hive.”

And bee sober.


31 posted on 08/03/2016 11:46:15 PM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut (PRAYING FOR AMERICA EVERY DAY!http://i65.tinypic.com/jttjpz.jpg)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Rick and Bubba show had the video from this story which must have run on the television station there in Kentucky. It was one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a while.


32 posted on 08/04/2016 2:13:53 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't cost $1300 a month.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Darwin Award, Honorable Mentions!!

Next time they just might win the ultimate award...


33 posted on 08/04/2016 2:20:41 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Ezekiel

Wow.

I assumed this was typical journalistic misfeasance, that the bee attack precipitated the crash, but no.

Wow.


34 posted on 08/04/2016 2:36:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: Celerity

....or, Chris Farley in Tommy Boy.


35 posted on 08/04/2016 2:42:30 AM PDT by fulltlt
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bee careful. I know, stinging commentary.


36 posted on 08/04/2016 5:22:56 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That’ll teach’em to bee hive.


37 posted on 08/04/2016 5:27:59 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: lurk

“As john wayne said, life’s harder when you’re stupid.”.......

Too bad there are soooooooooooooooooo many stupid people right now.


38 posted on 08/04/2016 5:39:51 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Tax-chick

Read like it was narrated by Ricky Butler, lol.


39 posted on 08/04/2016 7:08:52 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

40 posted on 08/04/2016 8:20:47 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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