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Honey of a Mess: Accident Releases Millions of Bees
Aired June 23, 2003 - 15:43 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well some bees being trucked to Wisconsin got side-tracked in Missouri. The truck carrying their hives overturned near Kansas City. It's a honey of an accident, but it's unleashed millions of angry bees. Tess Koppelman of affiliate WDAF has the buzz.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Worst part, 120 hive of bees on the semitruck, and each hive could have 50,000 bees per hive. And they all just completely dumped over.
TESS KOPPLEMAN, WDAF CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That's about 30 million angry bees swarming here, there and everywhere for this beekeeper to deal with.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All the bees just completely dumped out, they were disrupted. I guess from the way it sounds, they're all over in the trailer park.
KOPPLEMAN (on camera): So it's a pain for this beekeeper have to clean up, but it seems just as much as to the people who live in this nearby neighborhood.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's getting to be a nuanced where you can't walk outside without being stung or something.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were out cleaning out the brush and stuff, and painting my shed. When we got back, were taking the brush and we getting ready to paint, my shed was just, like, covered. I mean, it was, like, 50 or 60 bees just swarming around.
KOPPLEMAN: Dina (ph) says she's allergic to bees. The police got several 911 calls all day about bee stings.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I see a bee, I'm running back in.
KOPPLEMAN: And she says she doesn't know if her kids are allergic, so she's keeping them inside.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They have all been cooped up in the house all day.
KOPPLEMAN: The rain quieted the bees down, but the rain quit just in time for the cleanup to begin. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I actually have to clean them up, try to get them in boxes, and they're not happy bees.
KOPPLEMAN: If you don't like getting stung, this is not the business to bee again.
PHILLIPS: Our thanks was again to Tess Koppleman of WZAF for taking the sting out of that one.
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Aired June 23, 2003 - 15:43 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well some bees being trucked to Wisconsin got side-tracked in Missouri. The truck carrying their hives overturned near Kansas City. It's a honey of an accident, but it's unleashed millions of angry bees. Tess Koppelman of affiliate WDAF has the buzz.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Worst part, 120 hive of bees on the semitruck, and each hive could have 50,000 bees per hive. And they all just completely dumped over.
TESS KOPPLEMAN, WDAF CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That's about 30 million angry bees swarming here, there and everywhere for this beekeeper to deal with.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All the bees just completely dumped out, they were disrupted. I guess from the way it sounds, they're all over in the trailer park.
KOPPLEMAN (on camera): So it's a pain for this beekeeper have to clean up, but it seems just as much as to the people who live in this nearby neighborhood.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's getting to be a nuanced where you can't walk outside without being stung or something.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were out cleaning out the brush and stuff, and painting my shed. When we got back, were taking the brush and we getting ready to paint, my shed was just, like, covered. I mean, it was, like, 50 or 60 bees just swarming around.
KOPPLEMAN: Dina (ph) says she's allergic to bees. The police got several 911 calls all day about bee stings.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I see a bee, I'm running back in.
KOPPLEMAN: And she says she doesn't know if her kids are allergic, so she's keeping them inside.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They have all been cooped up in the house all day.
KOPPLEMAN: The rain quieted the bees down, but the rain quit just in time for the cleanup to begin. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I actually have to clean them up, try to get them in boxes, and they're not happy bees.
KOPPLEMAN: If you don't like getting stung, this is not the business to bee again.
PHILLIPS: Our thanks was again to Tess Koppleman of WZAF for taking the sting out of that one.
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