Tuesday 1 July 2008

* is that buzzing coming from the radio...?

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With a headline like this, how can ANYONE resist...

"Lorry carrying 12m bees overturns"

This is the link to the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7482609.stm

Basically...
"Motorists on Canada's biggest highway ended up with a bee in their bonnet after a truck transporting 12m of the insects overturned.
The lorry was carrying 330 crates of honey bees when it tipped over on a ramp in St Leonard, New Brunswick.
Bee experts were called in to help deal with the accident on the Trans-Canada Highway...The BBC's Lee Carter in Toronto says the bees had been used to pollinate a crop of blueberries, and were being transported home when the accident happened...."


And it's real, it's a real story and not from The Onion or Newsbiscuit or anything...!

Now, I've heard of a threat that involved "a jiffy bag full of wasps" - but a truck full of bees...!? Really...?!

It kind of makes sense when you read the article, but the idea of truck full o' bees is just weird... so is a "bee expert" like a bee wrangler or something like that to round them up once and get them all back in the truck once they've done their a-pollinatin'...?

Do they have tiny wee whips to head 'em up and move' em out...?

Do they have to do a headcount like on school trips to make sure they've not left any of them behind...?

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