Dance Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
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05-23-2012, 11:01 AM
Dance Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
Ok. This thread has nothing at all to do with butterflies, but rather everything to do with bee stings. On average I'd estimate that I've been stung while riding two or three times a year. On the hand, on the cheek, inside the helmet. You know what I'm talking about.
But yesterday I got stung inside my ear. At the entrance to my ear canal. Talk about hurt! I couldn't get the stinger out so it pumped every bit of toxins into my ear.
To make matters worse I was on a fairly desolate stretch of road with nowhere to stop when it happened. CA 126 between Santa Paula and Fillmore for those of you familiar with the area. I was nearing Fillmore but had to ride another 5 or 6 miles before coming to a McDonalds. I went into McDonalds, hit the john, and looked into my ear the best I could using the mirror in the john. I could see something but there was no way for me to get the stinger out.
Long story short, another guy came into the john and I asked if he could do me a favor. He replied "depends". So I told him my predicament and asked him to look in my ear to see if he could see the stinger. He saw it and was able to scrape it out for me.
Today my ear is swollen, on fire, and itching like crazy. Don't you just love all of God's little creatures?
But yesterday I got stung inside my ear. At the entrance to my ear canal. Talk about hurt! I couldn't get the stinger out so it pumped every bit of toxins into my ear.
To make matters worse I was on a fairly desolate stretch of road with nowhere to stop when it happened. CA 126 between Santa Paula and Fillmore for those of you familiar with the area. I was nearing Fillmore but had to ride another 5 or 6 miles before coming to a McDonalds. I went into McDonalds, hit the john, and looked into my ear the best I could using the mirror in the john. I could see something but there was no way for me to get the stinger out.
Long story short, another guy came into the john and I asked if he could do me a favor. He replied "depends". So I told him my predicament and asked him to look in my ear to see if he could see the stinger. He saw it and was able to scrape it out for me.
Today my ear is swollen, on fire, and itching like crazy. Don't you just love all of God's little creatures?
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05-23-2012, 11:09 AM
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Wife got hit in the chest, just above the cleavage, by an africanized honey bee this weekend on a ride back from Cape May, NJ. It flew down the front of her jacket.
I couldn't figure out why she was honking her horn and flashing her light at me. When she pulled over her sporty she was yelling..."Kill it! Get it out and Kill it! Kill it!!"
Little thing was the size of my fingernail. I just brushed it off and listened to her cuss up a storm.
I couldn't figure out why she was honking her horn and flashing her light at me. When she pulled over her sporty she was yelling..."Kill it! Get it out and Kill it! Kill it!!"
Little thing was the size of my fingernail. I just brushed it off and listened to her cuss up a storm.
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05-23-2012, 12:51 PM
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While riding with my feet up on the highway pegs, a bee went up my pant leg, made a U-turn and went down my boot. Trying to find a safe place to get off the road while punching myself in the leg, listening to my wife asking 'what's wrong?'
I managed to stop. drop & roll. I had the sidestand down before I hit the ground and my boot off to watch the little bugger fly away. I did not get stung. I have an allergy to bee stings, although not fatal I usually break out in cold sweats & welts all over my upper body.
Some of God's little creatures should have been slapped as they were boarding Noah's Ark.
I managed to stop. drop & roll. I had the sidestand down before I hit the ground and my boot off to watch the little bugger fly away. I did not get stung. I have an allergy to bee stings, although not fatal I usually break out in cold sweats & welts all over my upper body.
Some of God's little creatures should have been slapped as they were boarding Noah's Ark.
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05-23-2012, 01:00 PM
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My husband stripped in a complete stranger's front yard after having a yellow jacket take a nose dive down his shirt on a ride. Got him twice in the belly. Man I felt bad for the poor guy as that had to have sucked!
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2009 i was dove hunting at my ranch in central Texas the bees had already got my buddy once they got to me they were pissed got me over 140 times. Ok so i ran like little girl screaming in to my trailer Fire department had to come and foam trailer to get us out.
I called a bee keeper from Texas A&M he came in hes bee suit got under trailer and killed nest..He said nest was the bigest he had ever seen it was 14ft by 20ft most nest only have a 100000 to 20000 he est there was over 2 million bees on it. I was so lucky.If it makes you feel any better when a honey bee stings u he dies after..
I called a bee keeper from Texas A&M he came in hes bee suit got under trailer and killed nest..He said nest was the bigest he had ever seen it was 14ft by 20ft most nest only have a 100000 to 20000 he est there was over 2 million bees on it. I was so lucky.If it makes you feel any better when a honey bee stings u he dies after..
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05-23-2012, 01:10 PM
2009 i was dove hunting at my ranch in central Texas the bees had already got my buddy once they got to me they were pissed got me over 140 times. Ok so i ran like little girl screaming in to my trailer Fire department had to come and foam trailer to get us out.
I called a bee keeper from Texas A&M he came in hes bee suit got under trailer and killed nest..He said nest was the bigest he had ever seen it was 14ft by 20ft most nest only have a 100000 to 20000 he est there was over 2 million bees on it. I was so lucky.If it makes you feel any better when a honey bee stings u he dies after..
I called a bee keeper from Texas A&M he came in hes bee suit got under trailer and killed nest..He said nest was the bigest he had ever seen it was 14ft by 20ft most nest only have a 100000 to 20000 he est there was over 2 million bees on it. I was so lucky.If it makes you feel any better when a honey bee stings u he dies after..
The most stings I ever got at one time was 8. Probably about 10 or 11 years old at the time. Me and a few friends were out playing in the woods and we came upon a beehive about the size of a football. We started throwing rocks at it from about 50 feet. When one of us finally hit it more bees than I had ever seen swarmed out of it. We ran our asses off back to the house but I got 8 stings on the way.
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05-23-2012, 04:07 PM
Ok. This thread has nothing at all to do with butterflies, but rather everything to do with bee stings. On average I'd estimate that I've been stung while riding two or three times a year. On the hand, on the cheek, inside the helmet. You know what I'm talking about.
But yesterday I got stung inside my ear. At the entrance to my ear canal. Talk about hurt! I couldn't get the stinger out so it pumped every bit of toxins into my ear.
To make matters worse I was on a fairly desolate stretch of road with nowhere to stop when it happened. CA 126 between Santa Paula and Fillmore for those of you familiar with the area. I was nearing Fillmore but had to ride another 5 or 6 miles before coming to a McDonalds. I went into McDonalds, hit the john, and looked into my ear the best I could using the mirror in the john. I could see something but there was no way for me to get the stinger out.
Long story short, another guy came into the john and I asked if he could do me a favor. He replied "depends". So I told him my predicament and asked him to look in my ear to see if he could see the stinger. He saw it and was able to scrape it out for me.
Today my ear is swollen, on fire, and itching like crazy. Don't you just love all of God's little creatures?
But yesterday I got stung inside my ear. At the entrance to my ear canal. Talk about hurt! I couldn't get the stinger out so it pumped every bit of toxins into my ear.
To make matters worse I was on a fairly desolate stretch of road with nowhere to stop when it happened. CA 126 between Santa Paula and Fillmore for those of you familiar with the area. I was nearing Fillmore but had to ride another 5 or 6 miles before coming to a McDonalds. I went into McDonalds, hit the john, and looked into my ear the best I could using the mirror in the john. I could see something but there was no way for me to get the stinger out.
Long story short, another guy came into the john and I asked if he could do me a favor. He replied "depends". So I told him my predicament and asked him to look in my ear to see if he could see the stinger. He saw it and was able to scrape it out for me.
Today my ear is swollen, on fire, and itching like crazy. Don't you just love all of God's little creatures?
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