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Yellow Jackets Attack At Elementary School
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| 08/26/2005
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Posted on 08/26/2005 10:15:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: null and void
That's photoshopped. Right? Right?
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:42:51 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:46:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Someone missed their meds this morning...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I had a lawn care business as an adolescent. I ran over more yellow jacket nests than I can count. They do swarm you, and I have suffered more than a few stings. My MO was to take a 16 oz bottle and fill it with gasoline, haul ass up to the mouth of the nest, and set it upright. Do it quick and get out. Then go running up again and tip it over into the hole. Then you can throw in a match from a few feet away. Almost always a workable plan.
They are aggressive little buggars, but the sting is not nearly as bad as a hornet or red wasp. My brother and I used to pull up the boat to within about 10 feet of hornet's nests on the Tennessee River, and shoot the nest with a 12 gauge, slam the boat into gear and take off. You could literally see the swarm come out after you (they have this thing with sonar or something that they can "follow" the projectile that struck the nest back to the source). My brother once throttled up too fast and stripped the transmission out of the motor. We both went over the side, as hornet swarm will literally kill you if they get all over you. Crazy days, fueled by testosterone, youth and way too much alcohol and dope, but some fun and funny memories.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus
Are they too buzzed to be embarrassed? That's truly a horrifying picture.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:47:53 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(Wisely investing in quality tin foil wardrobe basics since 1998)
To: Termite_Commander
My two year old got attacked by a swarm and got stung several times. He ran over their nest in their little tykes car.
When I went out to check, while my husband put him in the tub, I saw them attacking the yellow roof of the car.
Let's just say the nest didn't survive the night.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:49:00 PM PDT
by
I still care
(America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
To: Termite_Commander
I got bit by one of these SOBs today at 4:30 PM, in the palm of my hand. It's now 12:46 AM, and my hand STILL feels like someone is hammering a dull nail into it.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:51:11 PM PDT
by
Monitor
(Gun control isn't about guns; it's about control.)
To: null and void
No wonder they taste like chicken.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:51:19 PM PDT
by
kenth
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:51:25 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(Wisely investing in quality tin foil wardrobe basics since 1998)
To: martin_fierro; RandallFlagg
I found a 5" BMF Chinese Mantas in suburbia and took it home as a pet for my son. I had to let it go, no mantas is a match for a 2 1/2 yr old: "Daddy...bug...squash it?"
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:53:30 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My brother would never forgive me if I didn't post this.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:54:30 PM PDT
by
I still care
(America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
To: kenth
Another of life's little mysteries solved...
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:55:09 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Someone missed their meds this morning...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
31 posts and no one's said it yet?
Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/26/2005 10:59:55 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
To: glasseye
Its that time of year for Yellow Jackets. When I was in elementary school we didn't have the luxury of air conditioning so we we had these huge open windows. The wasps always would visit us after lunch when we smelled of sweets. We learned to sit like statues. I can't recall anyone getting stung.
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posted on
08/26/2005 11:00:11 PM PDT
by
oyez
To: RandallFlagg
You can order praying mantis egg cases and watch them hatch. It's really cool. I can't remember where I got them but you can google it and find out where they're sold.
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posted on
08/26/2005 11:03:12 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: RandallFlagg
That Mantis is the COOLEST insect.
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posted on
08/26/2005 11:04:32 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(War is Mankind's way of ridding the world of the tyranny caused by liberalism)
To: metmom
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posted on
08/26/2005 11:09:17 PM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(War is Mankind's way of ridding the world of the tyranny caused by liberalism)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I've never seen a yellowjacket or a hornet in my life, and reading through this thread makes me glad I live where I do. Out here all we have is mud daubers and paper wasps, and they're so mellow you can practically pet them (don't try it unless you want a swollen finger). I once knocked an 8" paper wasp nest out from under the eve of my house, and the wasps simply flew into back up beneath the eve and started rebuilding the thing. They're a bear to get rid of, but docile enough so that you don't typically have to.
To: AntiGuv
Yellow jackets are vicious little mofos that don't even really need a reason to sting you..Manifestly untrue. If you're at a picnic or someplace where they are foraging, you can let them crawl all over you, ( or your hand anyway ) and they will not sting. The only reason they sting is to defend their nest - or if they get caught up your sleeve or something, but hey, who wouldn't.
BTW, I got stung repeatedly once when I was maybe 12 years old when I was playing at a construction site and we were rolling some old tires down the side of a dirt pile. I was hauling a tire up the hill, and noticed a bunch of yellow jackets swarming around - "Gee, where did these come from?" Well, the tire you idiot! I got zapped 5 or 6 times, but I handled it OK. Chalked it up to my own stupidity.
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posted on
08/27/2005 12:27:18 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: metmom
I remember a squirrel at Texas A&M eating a sparrow. Squirrels are rats with good pr..
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posted on
08/27/2005 12:40:16 AM PDT
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(When the disbeliever sees this, he will say, 'How nice if I was also turned into sand.')
To: martin_fierro
; )
I saw them at the Mount Hood Jazz Festival. To my knowledge, everyone was okay and got out of there without being stung.
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