Off-duty firefighter removes 15,000 bees from car in grocery parking lot

[Robert59]

A man who returned to his car in the parking lot of a New Mexico grocery store ended up needing help from firefighters when he found a swarm of 15,000 honey bees has taken up residence in the vehicle.

The Las Cruces Fire Department said the man told firefighters he had only been inside the Albertson's store in Las Cruces for about 10 minutes when he came outside to find thousands of bees flying around inside the Buick he had borrowed from a friend.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/04/01/Las-Cruces-Albertsons-bees-Buick/3411617308083/

 

[hollydolly]

Yikes!!!

 

[911]

How do they know it was 15,000? Maybe it was only 14,745. Did someone count them? I'm just being facetious.

 

[win231]

After seeing the car, I felt sorry for the bees. They obviously have no taste.

 

[win231]

Probably safer than getting a King Cobra out of your house.....

 

[911]

Probably safer than getting a King Cobra out of your house.....

It's amazing how these snake handlers find the snakes in places where I would never think to look. There is a show on the NatGeo Wild channel called "Snake City" that I watch occasionally. It's about a man and his wife from England that are mostly living and hunting snakes in Africa that go where they are called to remove snakes. They find a lot of Black Mambas. After they capture the snakes from homes, gardens, etc., they relocate the snakes. They do not believe in killing them as they believe that all living things serve a purpose in life.

On one show, a small boy was out walking with his dad when they came upon a dead Black Mamba in the road. The boy picked up the snake and felt the fang of the snake which punctured his skin. The venom was still able to penetrate his bloodstream and he had to be rushed to the hospital. They were able to save his life, thankfully. Sometimes, it takes many doses of the antivenom to recover and save a person.

On a side note, antivenom is very expensive. I was called to the scene of a man that was bitten by an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake in northern PA. The EMT's were not far behind me and all they could do was what we call a "Pick up and go." They do not carry any antivenom with them, but in that part of Pennsylvania, most hospitals do. It took 4 doses of the stuff to get his vitals back to normal, but his whole hand had turned almost coal black. I asked the doctor how much a dose costs. He wasn't sure exactly, but did say that each dose cost at least $400.00-500.00.

 

[Aunt Marg]

It's amazing how these snake handlers find the snakes in places where I would never think to look. There is a show on the NatGeo Wild channel called "Snake City" that I watch occasionally. It's about a man and his wife from England that are mostly living and hunting snakes in Africa that go where they are called to remove snakes. They find a lot of Black Mambas. After they capture the snakes from homes, gardens, etc., they relocate the snakes. They do not believe in killing them as they believe that all living things serve a purpose in life.

On one show, a small boy was out walking with his dad when they came upon a dead Black Mamba in the road. The boy picked up the snake and felt the fang of the snake which punctured his skin. The venom was still able to penetrate his bloodstream and he had to be rushed to the hospital. They were able to save his life, thankfully. Sometimes, it takes many doses of the antivenom to recover and save a person.

On a side note, antivenom is very expensive. I was called to the scene of a man that was bitten by an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake in northern PA. The EMT's were not far behind me and all they could do was what we call a "Pick up and go." They do not carry any antivenom with them, but in that part of Pennsylvania, most hospitals do. It took 4 doses of the stuff to get his vitals back to normal, but his whole hand had turned almost coal black. I asked the doctor how much a dose costs. He wasn't sure exactly, but did say that each dose cost at least $400.00-500.00.

Just looked up the cost of a vial of cobra antivenom.

A single vial of Boomslang antivenom costs $5500, and one could require up to 3 vials to counteract a serious bite. A King Cobra bite could require 20 vials, although 50 is not unheard of.