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100 'Killer Bee' Stings Kill Fla. Man
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| 12-april-2008
Posted on 04/12/2008 11:46:31 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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Africanized honey bees?
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
04/12/2008 11:47:42 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
( If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...)
To: stainlessbanner
Africanized honey bees? they never fail to race-bait, those media dogs, do they?
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posted on
04/12/2008 11:48:18 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
( If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...)
To: stainlessbanner
100 stings from normal bees could kill a man. This isn't anything to get up in arms over.
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posted on
04/12/2008 11:52:32 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: the invisib1e hand
I’ve forwarded this post over to the Justice Brothers ( Sharpton and Jackson ) they will be responding just as soon as they can reach a microphone with a camera attached.
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:04:26 PM PDT
by
festus
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: stainlessbanner
And my wife wants to move to FL...........
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:05:09 PM PDT
by
festus
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: festus
And my wife wants to move to FL........Just run into the nearest water if the bees attack.
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:22:30 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: stainlessbanner
Agriculture officials said people should stay away from bee nests and shouldn't try to remove nests themselves.Ah, that clears up some misconceptions I had. I thought that you should try to be in close proximity, and you should remove the nest yourself.
If they're chased by a swarm of bees, people should run until they can get inside.
Again, I always thought you should stand your ground and keep swatting at them.
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:31:00 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: decimon
Just run into the nearest water if the bees attack.Yeah, I suppose it's better to get eaten by alligators than stung by bees!
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:43:12 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I dream of the day when chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!)
To: stainlessbanner
Another time when multiculturalism didn’t work.
To: stainlessbanner
That's actually the technical term for the breed of bees which are known as "killer bees". I learned a whole bunch about it when I was in Florida a few weeks ago. My father in law is a bee keeper in his spare time, and the state inspector came by to look at his hives.
Nice fella the inspector... originally from Tennesee... and of course my perfectionist Hungarian immigrant father in law has the most well maintained hives he's ever seen.
Anyway, Florida has an ogoing management plan to limit the breeding of the "killer bees" by encouraging the proliferation of domesticated bees. We went on and on about it while he did the inspection. Apparently the whole system is currently balanced on a knife edge so they are encouraging as many people as they can to start raising them.
Very interesting to hear about.
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:50:21 PM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE - http://freenj.blogspot.com - RadioFree NJ)
To: the invisib1e hand
But since they’ve been here a while, shouldn’t they be “African-Americanized honey bees”?
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posted on
04/12/2008 12:55:58 PM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: decimon
Look!!
before you leap!
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posted on
04/12/2008 1:03:01 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: festus
Then you will love to learn about fire ants, coral snakes, gators, cottonmouths ... all the lovely fauna we get to enjoy down here.
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posted on
04/12/2008 1:03:41 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
To: BBell
That’s an Africanized bee? No wonder this feller died.
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posted on
04/12/2008 1:05:53 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Just run into the nearest water if the bees attack. Bad advice. Killer bees will hover over you until you have to come up for air. The only defense is go get inside something that will put a closed door between you and the bees.
To: arderkrag
When I was a teenager, I once fell into a yellow-jacket nest and was stung 33 times. It HURT!
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posted on
04/12/2008 2:10:53 PM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: stainlessbanner
“I never would have dreamed it would turn out to be the bees! They’ve always been our friends!”
-Michael Cain’s character from the very Bad movie “The Swarm”. A real B flick.
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posted on
04/12/2008 2:30:59 PM PDT
by
444Flyer
(Fight to Win.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I was mowing hay last year and hit a bumblebee nest,they
came up out of the ground looking like a black cloud.Those suckers kept hitting me time after time.
I ended up with 18 stings,spent the night at VA.
Scary thing to be attacked by a big nest of any bees.
I can`t imagine being stung 100 times,poor devil
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posted on
04/12/2008 2:32:34 PM PDT
by
Harold Shea
( Operation Chaos,way to go Rush)
To: stainlessbanner
LOL, I remember “killer bees”!
That was one of the hoaxes between the “global cooling” and “global warming” hoaxes.
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