Bee down the hatch

oregon

oregon

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This oldtimer outdoorsman, a friend of the family, lost a friend while fishing on a remote stream in the sticks. One of em takes a sip of beer from an open container, believe it was a dark brown glass bottle, and swallows a bee. The bee stings him in the throat on the way down. He died right there on the bank as his throat closed off. Check those open containers.

This same guy loved to fish the hard to reach streams. Never saw it but he claimed to have worn coffee cans on his legs in rattlesnake country. Tin man. I don't recall him mentioning how well this worked. Can you still buy coffee in those large cans? The noise might have been of aid in warning of his approach.

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oregon
 
I reckon he took the bottoms out of the cans, and wore them around the ankles as armor? I imagine it helped him out more mentally than it ever did at repelling a snake. A funny sight, to say the least.

You're more likely to be bitten on the hand digging around where you have no business than you are on the foot just walking around.
 
Any interesting post to Bee Wary! I work construction and learned long ago that when I had a coke on a jobsite to keep it covered. Bees are attracted to the sugar. With cups that have straws, I fold the straw end back into the lid. Bottled drinks get their tops screwed back on, and cans, my least favorite because of this, have to either be chugged, or have a flat cover laid over them.
 
If bees are bad, Yellow Jackets are FAR worse.

And you don't want to drink that beer/pop/lemonade if several Yellow jackets have been soaking in it, no matter what. Their toxin leeches out into the liquid. (If its a swimming pool with hundreds of dead Yellow Jackets floating around, stay out! Temps of 105 and projectile vomiting are no fun whatsoever. :barf: )
 
don't know about drinking them butt I had 31 stingers pulled from my tail at an er when I was 5 and then a needle inserted with antivenom, not the best thing to happen but I bet it sure was funny to see a 5 year old chased by a swarm of yj's running at top speed into a church camp meeting with about a 1000 people and my parents at the front row.
 
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