January 05, 2003
bees in yer bonnet
There we were, happily lunching outside City Café (yes, again) when a swarm of bees appeared out of nowhere, racing around in circles near the Acland St / Barkly St intersection. After a while they settled on somebody's bicycle helmet, as shown in the photos above. Eventually, somebody in a large white protective suit came and "rescued" the bees (and helmet) into a plastic bag, to the applause of onlookers. What does this mean ?
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Comments (4)
Wow. That is totally amazing.
Posted by hot soup girl | January 5, 2003 11:57 PM
Posted on January 5, 2003 23:57
AS someone who lives quite close to that intersection (well, relatively, especially as the bee flies) I am greatly disturbed by these images. And I am also wondering who you would call in such a situation? The RSPCA? Is there an emergency bee removal line?
Most disturbing.
Posted by mcb | January 7, 2003 9:43 AM
Posted on January 7, 2003 09:43
Yeah. I really don't know where the guy came from. Michael (http://beebo.org/) was, at the time, wondering if there's people you can call for help when weird things happen (a bit like the Harvey Keitel character in _Pulp Fiction_, he suggested). I wonder what happened to the bees afterwards. And the helmet...
Posted by cos | January 7, 2003 10:11 PM
Posted on January 7, 2003 22:11
When I look at those pictures, I just keep imagining the bees enveloping someone's head rather than the helmet. Yikes.
Posted by Hot Soup Girl | January 9, 2003 2:21 AM
Posted on January 9, 2003 02:21