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MattKeil
12-24-2006, 10:50 AM
Oh, to be in Florida for Christmas. These are pretty amazing pictures, to boot.

Not for bee lovers. (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176)
Hetzer
12-24-2006, 11:31 AM
yeah pretty amazing, a bunch of assholes trying to kill some bees!
MattKeil
12-24-2006, 11:40 AM
Wow, are we so far gone around here at this point that we're in the "Save the Bees" camp? Give me a break.
Bill Dungsroman
12-24-2006, 12:12 PM
yeah pretty amazing, a bunch of assholes trying to kill some bees!
Assholes? I guess you missed the part where the bees were coming in through a hole in the wall and stinging those people. They also did exactly what Animal Control would have done, which is smoke them to death.
olaf
12-24-2006, 12:16 PM
I enjoyed that link.
Jim Preston
12-24-2006, 12:26 PM
For the most part I like living in Flordia...except for it being 78 degress on Christmas eve. For just one day I'd like it to be below 32, and then return to 78 degrees for the rest of the time. Also, I'd like to be able throw paint thinner at a roaring fire to kill bees, too.
Athryn
12-24-2006, 01:43 PM
Huh, they basically killed a group of bees that was trying to find a new hive. They congregate like that when they're trying to protect their queen, who would be in the middle of that clump of bees.

They prolly could have made some good money by contacting an apiary, and they would have come and retreived em, as they like to have new bees for their boxes. My ex's dad was a beekeeper, with the right equipment they can be easily soothed as opposed to nuked, lol. I have to admit the pictures are pretty spectacular though.

Honeybees are one of man's oldest domesticated animals, btw. :p
Samurai
12-24-2006, 02:06 PM
"OH THE BEEMANITY"


Awesome.
JMR
12-24-2006, 02:38 PM
They should've used their 20 canisters of CN20 and nerve gassed the whole fucking nest.
balut
12-24-2006, 02:39 PM
They should've used their 20 canisters of CN20 and nerve gassed the whole fucking nest.

Or, take off and nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.
K0NY
12-24-2006, 05:26 PM
http://ilovebees.com/
nutsak
12-24-2006, 05:54 PM
... you linked to a viral marketing site for a reason didn't you K0ny ?
K0NY
12-24-2006, 06:00 PM
You caught me! I guess the jig is up. All this time I have secretly been working for Microsoft.
XPav
12-24-2006, 08:46 PM
You're a double-agent-viral-marketer!

Will Nintendo stop at nothing?
tromik
12-24-2006, 08:57 PM
It reminds me of the beginning of Terminator 2, when the nuke goes off while shes at the playground.
moss_icon
12-24-2006, 11:32 PM
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/r.barlow4/avs/bill_bailey.jpg

i ate all your bees.
Anders Hallin
12-25-2006, 01:40 AM
Lonely Soldier, NEVAR FORGET!
Hetzer
12-25-2006, 05:32 AM
Huh, they basically killed a group of bees that was trying to find a new hive. They congregate like that when they're trying to protect their queen, who would be in the middle of that clump of bees.

They prolly could have made some good money by contacting an apiary, and they would have come and retreived em, as they like to have new bees for their boxes. My ex's dad was a beekeeper, with the right equipment they can be easily soothed as opposed to nuked, lol. I have to admit the pictures are pretty spectacular though.

Honeybees are one of man's oldest domesticated animals, btw. :p

I fear most of the qt3īlers above are to urbanized to understand bee swarming... and yes a call to a beekeeper at least here in germany would got you some money. Next time you eat something with honey or you see a nice flower think about how our world is ticking.
Angie Gallant
12-25-2006, 07:48 AM
I'm not sure they could have gotten someone to come out during the holidays, and they probably didn't want to wait given the presence of children.
Union Carbide
12-25-2006, 09:01 AM
If you read the actual text of the post instead of just looking at the (totally awesome) pictures, you'll find that they attempted to contact bee removal services, only to be told that they would be charged a hefty premium for someone to come out on a holiday weekend.

Plus, redneck engineering makes a better thread than "we called the beekeeper and he took them away."
RedTide
12-25-2006, 09:09 AM
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8653/charapainpic7at.gif
THE PAIN, THE PAIN, THE PAIN.
foogla
12-25-2006, 11:32 AM
They don't allow bees in here. :/
Bill Dungsroman
12-25-2006, 11:46 AM
I fear most of the qt3īlers above are to urbanized to understand bee swarming... and yes a call to a beekeeper at least here in germany would got you some money. Next time you eat something with honey or you see a nice flower think about how our world is ticking.
I'm sorry, did they kill the last remaining bee population on planet Earth? Get real.
Kyle Wilson
12-25-2006, 11:59 AM
Next time you eat something with honey or you see a nice flower think about how our world is ticking.

Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article. A dildo, never your dildo.
quatoria
12-25-2006, 12:35 PM
I'm still creeped out, wondering why, exactly, Hetzer's world ticks.
MattKeil
12-25-2006, 01:27 PM
I fear most of the qt3īlers above are to urbanized to understand bee swarming...

What, that the swarm is to protect a new queen and form a new hive? Yeah, I'm well aware of that, and even if I weren't, it's discussed in the linked thread anyway. However, since hundreds of bees playing house on a swingset is not desirable, nor is anyone likely to find a beekeeper in urban Florida willing to drive in on Christmas weekend, I'm thinking the right thing was done in this thread.

Yes, the residents' methods were a little more AWESOME than a professional exterminator's, but the problem was solved nonetheless.

Next time you eat something with honey or you see a nice flower think about how our world is ticking.

But how will I ever eat honey again now that all the bees in the world are dead?!

OH THE BEEMANITY!
Hetzer
12-25-2006, 01:57 PM
What, that the swarm is to protect a new queen and form a new hive? Yeah, I'm well aware of that, and even if I weren't, it's discussed in the linked thread anyway. However, since hundreds of bees playing house on a swingset is not desirable, nor is anyone likely to find a beekeeper in urban Florida willing to drive in on Christmas weekend, I'm thinking the right thing was done in this thread.

Yes, the residents' methods were a little more AWESOME than a professional exterminator's, but the problem was solved nonetheless.



But how will I ever eat honey again now that all the bees in the world are dead?!

OH THE BEEMANITY!

Nah it wont be the last bees on earth, but the bees are only swarming so long until they fly away... As a kid i played many times in the garden but seldom was i stung from a bee(if ever, i only remember two wasp stings).

I can only say it with the words of my grandfather:

"The biggest idiot in the world can kill a beetle but the greatest genius can not bring him back."
Bill Dungsroman
12-25-2006, 04:33 PM
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE BEES? ;_;
BrewersDroop
12-25-2006, 04:39 PM
It would have been even more awesome if the improvised firebomb started a fire which burned down the house.
quatoria
12-25-2006, 05:47 PM
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE BEES? ;_;

Goddamned dirty bee huggers!
MattKeil
12-25-2006, 07:56 PM
I can only say it with the words of my grandfather:

"The biggest idiot in the world can kill a beetle but the greatest genius can not bring him back."

No, but he could probably figure out a way to kill a whole lot of beetles at once. Only idiots do it one at a time.
balut
12-25-2006, 07:59 PM
"The biggest idiot in the world can kill a beetle but the greatest genius can not bring him back."

OH NOES WHAT WILL WE DO WITH ONLY SEVERAL HUNDRED QUADRILLION LEFT IN THE WORLD??
Derek Meister
12-25-2006, 11:15 PM
You know what to do with this thread?

That's right, burn it with fire.
Bill Dungsroman
12-26-2006, 07:59 AM
You know what to do with this thread?

That's right, burn it with fire.
Yeah well the next time you post on the internet or use your blog YOU THINK ABOUT HOW THIS INTERNET TICKS, Meister.
Derek Meister
12-26-2006, 10:17 AM
Umm ... duh ... I already KNOW how this Internet TICKS (http://www.swatch.com/internettime/) Dungsroman.
XPav
12-26-2006, 10:47 AM
Did you see those pictures? They had to destroy the swing set to save the swing set. Melted seats and everything.
MattKeil
12-26-2006, 12:13 PM
Every swing set dies. Not every swing set truly lives.
Rimbo
12-26-2006, 01:03 PM
this thread has taken a bizarre turn
balut
12-26-2006, 01:48 PM
NO U R.
RichVR
12-26-2006, 07:31 PM
Damn. Now I'm hungry. Haven't had roasted bees in a while. Sweet and crunchy. Bees... mmmmm...
John Sansker
12-26-2006, 07:42 PM
We need Spark to photoshop us some.

"I'm in your backyard torching your bees"


Or something like that.
Slainte Mhath
12-28-2006, 07:06 AM
Just imagine if you could do shit like that in Viva Pinata...flaming buzzlegums of death...GotY hands down.
Nellie
12-29-2006, 06:21 AM
"I keep bees, not for the honey, for the fur."
RepoMan
12-29-2006, 05:18 PM
Pinatas of War

"The goddamn Locustgums are flocking again, Captain."

"Shit, and we just tried feeding them the sour watercress. Well, get out the boomseed launchers."