[TexasCajun]

...bee’n waiting for a story like this since 1999 haven’t you? hehe

[Sgt_Schultze]

Global Warming

[Snickering Hound]

[Patriot Babe]

Has anyone checked if Obama have been golfing lately? Just asking =)

[driftdiver]

Shoulda made a beeline for the emergency room.

[Ditter]

Tragic.

[fwdude]

Okay, who gets sued?

[pgkdan]

Why is this thread full of lame jokes? A man died. That’s funny?

[Lurker]

Same thing happened where my wife works about 3 years ago. I keep 2 Epi-Pens in my golf bag.

[Martin Tell]

I read the article and since the offending insects came out of hole the ground they are definitely not honey bees. I'd say they were yellow jackets. I once ran over a yellow jacket hole with my lawn mower and those things came piling out after me. Ouch!

Bees do not have hives in the ground.

I have five hives - above ground in wooden boxes - and have some familiarity with stings. Got stung twice this last weekend. My fault since I opened the hive without smoking first. My bees are more aggressive this year since I got some Russian bees who cross-bred with my laid back Italian bees.

[Yo-Yo]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dreadful. RIP.

[trisham]

They were probably yellow jackets, which are wasps.

[noinfringers2]

I have had two life threatening ‘bee’ encounters. One was when I was exploring the caves on Saipan just after WWII ended. Crawling through some ground brush I really got swarmed. Buddies took me to the base hospital where I spent three days recuperating. The second time was after WWII when I was deer hunting in the Mendocino mountains. I had just branched off from my deer hunting buddy when I didn’t duck low enough to avoid bumping an unseen hive. I was covered with angry bees until we finally clear them. We immediately headed for home a couple of hundred miles away and before we got home I passed out. Lucky for me we lived only a couple of blocks from a hospital to where I was taken. I spent 3 days recovering in the hospital.