Automotive Bee in Your Bonnet: Truck Carrying 12 Million Bees Overturned

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Auto & Transportation on Jul 1, 2008 at 9:26 pm

Bad: Car accident on the highway …
Really Bad: It was an overturned big rig …
Neatorama-worthy: … carrying 12 million bees!

BBC has the story:

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.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a downpour of rain helped to contain the bees in and around the vehicle. "Bees don’t like the rain… thousands of bees are hanging on the back of this truck and on the pavement right behind," said police spokesman Derek Strong.

Link (with video clip) – Thanks Paul!

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bean
Jul 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Leave the lame headline gimmicks to Fark, man. There’s a reason I’m here instead of there.
Johnny Cat
Jul 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Without the rain aspect, it would have been like The Swarm movie. maybe.
ty
Jul 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
that sucks, considering how north american honeybees are kinda disappearing from the continent. if their plummeting continues, we’re all gonna starve.
tona b.
Jul 1st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Second on bean’s comment. I didn’t like it the other time I saw this either, and I’m noticing there is less and less truly NEAT stuff put on Neatorama lately as well. Get your act together, guys! >:p
Alex
Jul 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Lame headlines will continue until morale improves!
CheeseDuck
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 am
If only they were KILLER BEES! DUN DUN DUNN
Capella
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Poor bees!
Ali S.
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Yeesh! Imagine if it wasn’t raining! It would be like a nightmare with all those angry buzzing bees attacking everyone and everything.
matt
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Yes, free entertainment blog. I demand you get neater because I want my money’s worth.
kid_icarus
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
can’t we all just bee nice to each other? he he he he
Lionheart
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Look at the good side, a journalist was stung.
earbox
Jul 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
The bees are in the what now?
Thomas
Jul 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 am
My god… bees.
Hedgecore
Jul 5th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
My boss and I were driving back from a trip out east and just before 6am (this was near the AST/EST timezone border so it was light out) he says “hey check out that truck!”. I looked over and there was a truck laden with boxes covered in green netting. In the netting were a tonne of bees.

This happened about 15 mins after we passed it… and to be honest, I laughed my ass off at the coincidence.

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