Neil D Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 [:"blue"] I post this cuz there is always some stupid person who is gonna try this...So, this is for your edification.....Just don't be stupid and try to destroy a bee yard...'k? ...oh, and ignore the stuff about the beeyard being in the middle of mating season...the journalist doesn't know what he is talking about... [/] LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- Deputies said some young men chose the wrong place to vandalize. They drove right into beehive colonies to see what would happen and the result was what you might expect. Several of them were taken to the hospital. "By throwing it off, the bees got all stirred up and come up in the air after 'em," explained beekeeper David Miksa. "It's very upsetting. We have a lot of work to re-do, to fix up the hives." Two boxes make up a colony, with 25,000 to 30,000 bees in each one. So it's not the best idea to drive into them and see what happens. But Miksa said teenagers usually try it at least once a year. "There's no excuse to be near the bee yard that close," Miksa said. The bee yard is hidden away inside acres of orange groves. But deputies say 18-year old Adam Tyson, 20-year-old Jason Krueger and two younger teens found them anyway, backing their truck right in. But then their truck got stuck in the sand and they had to call 911 when hundreds of thousands of bees started swarming. "A lot of 'em were probably just trying to get back to their home and their home was mashed all over the ground," Miksa explained. All of the boys were stung. At least two went to South Lake Hospital for treatment. Miksa said, with millions of bees in his hives, the boys could have been killed. "I don't want to see anybody get stung up bad and I think it's a lesson to be learned by anybody who wants to try to mess around with beehives that the possibility of being hurt is definitely there," Miksa said. The trespassing charges the four already face are sort of like traffic tickets, but deputies said they could also face a more serious charge of criminal mischief for disturbing the hives. Miksa said the damage to his hives could cost him up to $5,000. Many of the bees were queens that were disturbed in the middle of the mating season. Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2005 Share Posted July 15, 2005 Neil you may not know it, but I was the fellow that was instrumental in trying to get a warning label secured to the side of all farm tractors. It reads like this. "A mad bumblebee can fly faster than a John Deere tractor in 5th gear with the after burner on". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 Yes it is true, if God's professed people back in Moses time frame had been faithful to their prophet instruction all the cities of Isarel could have been their deeded properties with out even one instrument of war being used. Heaven would have sent hornets/wasps/bees against their enemies as He had promised them. Now there was no John Deere tractors back when David did battle with that giant, but to see this 9 ft. tall man running at full speed towards a water hole swatting hornets with a hand with 6 fingers, I imagine he was doing as much dammage to the surronding crop fields as our modern day farm tractors equipped with a 3 point hitch & a brush hog. There may be a lesson, [no cross that out], there IS a lesson here for those that are still making sport of the english speaking prophets words of heavenly counsel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 jasd, you are good at math, help me out here. A 9ft. tall giant attached to a 6 ft. offset disk in the pear orchards of So. Oregon, how long would it take to cultivate one acre of land. Figure it both ways, with and without the flying hornets as a factor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 The reason I ask is, on cold mornings deisel tractors are hard to start, where if a giant was out in the barn all the fuel he would need to start him on cold mornings would be a dozen eggs, two loaves of toast & nut butter and a gallon of hash brown potatoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 Quote: Ed White said: The reason I ask is, on cold mornings deisel tractors are hard to start, where if a giant was out in the barn all the fuel he would need to start him on cold mornings would be a dozen eggs, two loaves of toast & nut butter and a gallon of hash brown potatoes. And what does this have to do with stupid kids bashing over hives in beeyards and destroying potential crops by destroying the only insect that works those crops? Me thinks that your 9ft man on a diesel tractor is Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Get real Neil!! If one of your lodge buddies has penned my words on this thread you would be laughing your guts out that’s is/was 100% on TOPIC, you know it as well as most of the forum members. But I could be tossing rose peddles in the air doing a soft toe dance and you would complain in my direction. Me thinks ye been stung so many times working with honey bees that your funny bone is malfunctioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Im totally lost on this one. <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/seenoevil.gif" alt="" /> Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 Quote: Im totally lost on this one. Me too...I thought Ed was serious, and those posts appeared to me as serious posts. IOWs, they did not appear as funny, more unique, but not funny [haha]...I appolgize if this was to be a haha funny joke...Perhaps you are correct, my funnybone got stung too many times... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Quote: Amelia said: Im totally lost on this one. ========================== Amelia I see that you and Neil are on the same wave link, but you should have posted this maneuver under the pranks thread. You remember the prank where a perfectly healthy college student was told by 6-8 of his friend that he looked sick that day until he went back to the dorm and crawled into bed. No, you picked the wrong day/place/person for that to work on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted July 18, 2005 Author Share Posted July 18, 2005 Quote: Amelia I see that you and Neil are on the same wave link, but you should have posted this maneuver under the pranks thread. Ok, Ed. First off, there is no pranking here. You have a history of being so serious, that any dry humor of yours is taken as serious... No jest, no labeling, just observation... Quote: No, you picked the wrong day/place/person for that to work on me. There has been no 'behind the scenes' PMing and no plotting here...Just taking posts at face value.... Honest, Ed. These posts regarding the diesal tractor just appeared . ....Which kinda means that Amelia and I would not pay money to see you perform at the comedy club... So don't get your panties in a wad over this...[besides, rumor has it that panties in a wad affects blood flow to the funny bone...Ask Sman about that...he's a nurse] Given your posting history, we, or at least I, missed your humor...I appologize for the lack of recognising it. Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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