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Ohio man out of coma after being stung by bees 20,000 times
New York Post ^
| 9/1/22
| Allie Griffin
Posted on 09/01/2022 7:45:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff
A young Ohio man is fighting for his life after he was stung by bees more than 20,000 times and swallowed about three dozen of the buzzing insects.
Austin Bellamy, 20, was trimming a lemon tree last week when he unknowingly cut open a beehive, releasing thousands of African killer bees that quickly swarmed around his head, neck and shoulders, his mother, Shawna Carte
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bees; killerbees
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Is this the 70's again?
Killer bees, inflation, and a president now, who makes Jimmy Carter look good.
To: DallasBiff
How do you not see a beehive in a tree? Asking for Florida Man.
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:48:31 AM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: DallasBiff
Africanized bees only live in hot, tropical climates - they are now in Ohio?
Also - you can grow lemons in Ohio???
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:49:02 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: DallasBiff
Glad the guy is surviving, but who counted the 20,000 bee stings?
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
moovova
Pretty sure he’s going to get super powers after that.
To: BBQToadRibs2
Pretty sure he’s going to get super powers after that. That was my immediate thought.
Hornet stings probably tickle him now.
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:54:47 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
To: PGR88
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:54:58 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
To: PGR88
Africanized bees only live in hot, tropical climates - they are now in Ohio? That's why I posted this. Lemon trees in Ohio?
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
"Is this the 70's again? "
Apparently.
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:56:31 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: moovova
I think that they count a measured area of the body and then estimate the number based on that count.
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:57:39 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
To: DallasBiff
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But branches of the poor lemon are completely filled with bees
Another story said he ingested about thirty of the bees so they were stinging on the inside too.
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posted on
09/01/2022 7:58:31 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
To: HYPOCRACY
They were inside the bough? He wouldn’t hear them if a chain saw was running.
To: BBQToadRibs2
I saw an Onion article that had “High school photographer dies from lukemia after radioactive spider bite”, so you don’t always get super powers.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:00:43 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
To: moovova
20K stingers with poison sacks attached to remove from the body. A lot of time spent.
Count the number per square inch (using pictures) X square inches of body affected.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: KarlInOhio
Yeah, but who ever heard or seen a lemon tree in Ohio.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:02:52 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
Nurseries around here have them. They’re decorative and may produce a few lemons if well cared for but we are to far north for a crop. Kind of like peaches here too.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:04:53 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
To: DallasBiff
Africanized bees have made it all the way to Ohio?
To: HYPOCRACY
How do you not see a beehive in a tree? Asking for Florida Man.I would guess that the bees had a hive in a hollow in the truck with a small external opening. If he didn't see or just ignored the bees around the opening, I could understand how it happened.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:05:32 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
To: HYPOCRACY
How do you not see a beehive in a tree? Asking for Florida Man.Yep. I make it a point to look carefully for beehives and wasp nests when I trim my trees.
What made it worse for him is he got stuck in the tree and couldn't get down. He was basically hanging there getting stung until the fire department brought him down.
On the plus side, every bee that stung him died so there's that.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:05:46 AM PDT
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
To: DallasBiff
Poor guy. Glad he is alive. I’ve been attacked twice by swarms of normal bees/hornets/wasps whatever. Probably had a dozen or so stings. Not fun.
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posted on
09/01/2022 8:07:54 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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