January 18, 2007: Bee attack!

Undertoad • Jan 18, 2007 1:27 pm
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xoB finds this item at the watermarked MediaPost.net, but the images there were poorly handled and wound up stretched. I've used Photoshop's Transform to return them to viewable status.

At first you think it's graphic, but it's not really; just something that'll invoke fear in the hardest of us, and sympathy in the coldest of us.

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The story:
Bee Attack Story By Ron Hatch
Was having late lunch at the Zion Road when I witnessed an elderly woman being attacked by bees just outside the hawker centre. At first, I thought it was flies. The lady tried to fan off the bees with a towel and wanted to enter the hawker centre for shelter. Frightened hawkers and patrons shouted at her to run to somewhere less crowded. She stood there helplessly while the little insects stung and finding their way into her ears, nose and mouth. Some hawkers tried to help by fanning off the bees with burning newspaper. Another person from the coffee shop across the street splashed water on her. Finally, she ran across the street towards Great World City where someone had set up a little fire and smoke. After the ordeal, her face and limps were full of bee-stings. The poor lady wanted to just walk away on her own to seek treatment from a nearby private clinic. The ambulance arrived just then and passersby advised her to seek treatment from the hospital.
lumberjim • Jan 18, 2007 1:37 pm
oh, those cowardly f**kers!

the amzing thing is that she stopped to pick her nose in the midst of the attack. must have been a troublesome booger.
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 1:39 pm
After the ordeal, her face and limps were full of bee-stings


I HATE it when bees get in my limps. :eek:
Flint • Jan 18, 2007 1:40 pm
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Beestie • Jan 18, 2007 1:42 pm
That's awful but she doesn't look all that bad - she must have leather for skin. What kind of bees were they and why did they go after her. She wouldn't be standing there like that if they were killer bees but regular honey bees usually won't attack randomly.
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 1:43 pm
Flint;308397 wrote:
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"I stung some Asian woman and now I'm going to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeee"
Flint • Jan 18, 2007 1:45 pm
Beestie;308398 wrote:
...why did they go after her.
IE, What's in the bag, Granny?

Edit: Do you know something you're not telling us, [SIZE="4"]Bee[/SIZE]tsie ???
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 1:49 pm
Under Danish conditions, rape appears well nigh the perfect bee attractor. It is even difficult to get the bees to visit other plants while the rape is flowering.


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wolf • Jan 18, 2007 2:04 pm
We call it canola, Shawnee. They mean the plant, not the activity.
Trilby • Jan 18, 2007 2:07 pm
I thought we called it maize?
wolf • Jan 18, 2007 2:08 pm
Given the look of the Do Not Enter sign, and the use of the word "hawkers" and proper pluralization of "passersby," I conclude that this did not take place anywhere in the U.S. Is there the same problem with Africanized bees elsewhere in the world?
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 2:27 pm
wolf;308416 wrote:
We call it canola, Shawnee. They mean the plant, not the activity.


:blush: [COLOR="Silver"](I know, I was kiddin')[/COLOR] :)
mrputter • Jan 18, 2007 2:28 pm
wolf;308420 wrote:
conclude that this did not take place anywhere


Singapore.

Used to live there. I've been to that hawker center a number of times at Zion & Orchard Roads across from (what is now) Great World City (used to be... Centrepoint? Or right next to it? Anyway.)


However, I cannot claim to know much about Singaporean bee behaviour.


(Edit: Arrgh. River Valley Rd., not Orchard Rd. Been a while.)
ferret88 • Jan 18, 2007 3:11 pm
Wonder if she was wearing, as is stereotypical, WAY TOO MUCH of that floral old-lady perfume...
Trilby • Jan 18, 2007 3:25 pm
some things we can assume based upon her pic--she is NO slave to fashion and, judging by her shoes, she's a hippie.

She may very well be diabetic. Check the legs.
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 3:38 pm
Flint;308397 wrote:
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I'm in ur Singapore, stingin' ur azzzzzz" ?
Lisau • Jan 18, 2007 4:46 pm
She looks so calm to me.
Why is that?:neutral:
Shawnee123 • Jan 18, 2007 4:53 pm
Bee endorphins (also known as beendorphins.)

Welcome to the Cellar!
OpalWater • Jan 18, 2007 5:30 pm
This picture terrified me into posting a response. That's a first. It could just be 'cause I'm insanely allergic to insects. If I had been this little old lady I would have been dead. :greenface
Beestie • Jan 18, 2007 6:12 pm
Flint;308402 wrote:
Edit: Do you know something you're not telling us, [SIZE=4]Bee[/SIZE]tsie ???


They are my minions.

They do my bidding.

World domination to come.

I suck at haiku.
yesman065 • Jan 18, 2007 6:50 pm
They were headed straight through her nose to her neocortix - nevermind - thats another thread. Although thats how some perfumes smell.
ashke • Jan 18, 2007 7:40 pm
Yikes, bees in Singapore? Hope I never meet any of those buggers...
xoxoxoBruce • Jan 18, 2007 7:53 pm
Welcome to the cellar OpalWater. :D
And a second to Shawnee's welcome of Lisau.

I've had a reaction to Hornets a couple of times, but I should think that many stings would make anyone pretty puffy.
SydneyBoy • Jan 18, 2007 7:59 pm
lumberjim;308392 wrote:


the amzing thing is that she stopped to pick her nose in the midst of the attack. must have been a troublesome booger.


hehe you made me giggle out loud in the office. also a little bit of wee came out but that seems to be happening fairly often these days.
lumberjim • Jan 18, 2007 9:04 pm
i love making pee come out! thanks for sharing that with me! no, really! yay! pee!
DucksNuts • Jan 18, 2007 10:10 pm
Pee's a good thing?
lumberjim • Jan 19, 2007 1:33 am
making someone laugh so hard that they pee is. c'mon, you've let a little out reading stuff on here once or twice haven't you? I know I make Aliantha pee all the time. she thinks i'm hysterical.
Lisau • Jan 19, 2007 8:27 am
Shawnee123;308486 wrote:
Bee endorphins (also known as beendorphins.)

Welcome to the Cellar!


Thank you :)
astrodex • Jan 19, 2007 9:55 am
lumberjim;308631 wrote:
making someone laugh so hard that they pee is. c'mon, you've let a little out reading stuff on here once or twice haven't you? I know I make Aliantha pee all the time. she thinks i'm hysterical.


There's not much challenge in making a woman who has given birth pee her pants. Believe me...I know.

Was that too much information?
wolf • Jan 19, 2007 3:01 pm
OpalWater;308495 wrote:
This picture terrified me into posting a response. That's a first. It could just be 'cause I'm insanely allergic to insects. If I had been this little old lady I would have been dead. :greenface


My favorite shrink tells me, everytime he sees "beestings" listed as an allergy on a chart, that everyone is allergic to beestings, it's just a matter of degree.
tulzscha • Jan 19, 2007 6:46 pm
How dare we make fun of the poor lady's execution. Cut down, in broad daylight...

Not dead? But, as you can clearly see in the second picture, she's been gruesomely bee-headed!
DucksNuts • Jan 21, 2007 6:49 pm
lumberjim;308631 wrote:
c'mon, you've let a little out reading stuff on here once or twice haven't you? I know I make Aliantha pee all the time. she thinks i'm hysterical.


Umm, I havent pee'd or leaked out any orifices....well....snorting stuff out my nose doesnt count, does it?

Horse riders = pelvic floor of steel baby!!!
rkzenrage • Jan 21, 2007 6:50 pm
I have very little sympathy for cowards.
Those people who did not help her should be prosecuted. Many states have laws regarding that. I think there should be a Federal law.
richlevy • Jan 21, 2007 6:59 pm
Beestie;308522 wrote:
They are my minions.

They do my bidding.

World domination to come.

I suck at haiku.

Blameless are the bees.
Most loyal subjects are they.
I am the bee king.:king:
yesman065 • Jan 21, 2007 9:24 pm
DucksNuts;309169 wrote:
Pelvic floor of steel baby!!!


Thats a tagline for all time!!
DucksNuts • Jan 22, 2007 5:57 am
It just sounds so....wrong
Deuce • Jan 22, 2007 11:30 am
richlevy;309174 wrote:
Blameless are the bees.
Most loyal subjects are they.
I am the bee king.:king:


There is no bee king :footpyth:.
We live only for the Queen.
None shall rule but she.
Aliantha • Jan 22, 2007 11:00 pm
Yes LJ...you make me piss myself laughing every day. You're so funny I just can't help myself.

*wonders where the depends are*
Explicit • Jan 24, 2007 5:59 pm
Holy shitballs
SPUCK • Jan 25, 2007 4:17 am
We need a collection to get Aliantha some Depends.

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