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I owe a big THANK You to everyone who contributed to help off-set my bee extermination bill. $400

For those of you who don't know the story...
On Friday afternoon, after I did the test & tune, I left my kart by my truck, with the doors and windows open, for a course walk. I got back from my course walk just in time to see a swarm of bees looming over the paddock area preventing me from getting to my truck. It looked like they were going to pass on thru but instead they seemed to be concentrating around my truck! It was then I started to panic! What do I do now?

Fortunate for me someone near by, who I did not recognize, started looking up telephone numbers for me to call to help. By this time the bees had transformed from a swarm into a hive in my truck shell so I was able to pull my gear out of the cab. Bees were still pretty thick flying around my truck but no stings the whole time. I was able to get an exterminator to come out on short notice but at twice the going rate for fixing this problem. Seem the exterminators were busy as bees also.

Barbara and the CP folks, who were parked across from me, went around and took up a collection which turned out to be about $300! (I guess it is only natural for the C-People to help out the BEE-People.)

Thanks again everybody (especially the CP folks!) And the moral of the story is: Bee kind to others and what a wonderful world this would bee...

Mad, buzzing props to the CP competitors for taking up the collection! Surely took the sting out of the extermination bill. }:)

Ron Tsumura wrote:I owe a big THANK You to everyone who contributed to help off-set my bee extermination bill. $400
...(I guess it is only natural for the C-People to help out the BEE-People.)...

LOL!!! Funny stuff, Ron! Great story.
Mark D.

Some friends who handle bees (and competed in the event) suggested contacting the local beekeepers' guild next time. They will collect the bees and take them away, rather than blasting them with bug killer, and they'll do it for a lot less money!

John Stimson wrote:Some friends who handle bees (and competed in the event) suggested contacting the local beekeepers' guild next time. They will collect the bees and take them away, rather than blasting them with bug killer, and they'll do it for a lot less money!

Note to self: roll windows up at every event from here on. And bring industrial strength bee killer. I hate bees.

Bee careful about pissing them off!

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It was a lose lose situation for me and the bees. I did not want to end up in the paper. Asian man killed. Stung multiple times by swarm of killer bees trying to rescue his truck.

If I could have become a bee I would have told them to move just a few feet away in the field. :king:

Sort of like God becoming a man and telling us what we need to do to be saved.

Might be good to have contact info for the bee people at hand for El Toro events.