Oh bother....
Posted on 02/14/2014 8:23:51 AM PST by US Navy Vet
DIXON (CBS13) — The price of honey has jumped in the last decade, leading to a jump in beehive thefts. That has beekeepers turning to technology to try and stop crooks from taking the hives. Keepers like Phil Hofland hoping the latest technology will sting those thieves trying to make off with the valuable hives. “You can come in here with a forklift and snag—I’ve seen people steal 30,000 to 50,000 in a half an hour,” he said. Beekeepers have always been concerned about theft, and have long tried to develop ways to prevent that from happening. But the age-old problem has a new remedy. Hofland now uses tiny GPS chips to track if one of his hives is stolen. “If it gets moved, I get an email or a text on my phone immediately,” the Dixon beekeeper said. Along with the chips, Hofland also brands his boxes in hopes of scaring away those who may look to swipe the hives. “I look at it as if my boxes are marked really good and somebody else’s aren’t,” he said. “Somebody has a choice between picking mine and somebody else’s, they are going to do that.”
A new kind of sting.
Catch those guys! Set up a sting!
The risk vs reward calculation on this one has some variables.
I hope those thieves get swarmed.
depending on your point of view it is a honey of a deal
I better train my bees to attack any other beekeepers but me.
I’m amazed at the amount of theft that goes on, must make God cringe.
How do you steal a beehive?
Very carefully
You know on Valentine’s Day I was expecting stories about “Hot Honeys” ...but not this kind
i wish someone would steal a couple of my honey do’s right out of my hands
Thieves today have no self respect. Now it seems there is nothing they will not steal. Thieves in my day would come into a store or bank with a gun and a demand for cash taking a chance on being shot. Now they are purely sneak thieves who steal knowing there is no one around and most times from their own relatives.
It appears to me that there is no honor among thieves. How the mighty have fallen.
Increase sale of Lo Jack to ensue.
I have long said that there are people who will steal literally anything.
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