Brickbat: I'll Be Your Honeybee

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2012 6:00 AM

Residents of one Hillsboro, Oregon, neighborhood are angry after city workers sprayed a honeybee hive, killing many of the bees. City officials say they thought the bees were yellow jackets and were a danger to people walking on a nearby sidewalk.

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Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago

The stupid, it burns.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

this is not one of the better Brickbats
Bardas Phocas 13 years ago

You say Dog, I say Tsetse Fly.
The city has vermin killers. Their job is to kill things - not do dna testing to see if the critters are cuddly pandas or rabid grizzlies.
Things must die - public employees must be paid - nothing else happened.
Generic Stranger 13 years ago

Err...this really warranted a mention on Reason? Is it a slow news day or something?
1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Stinging comment. Just because you can't see what all the buzz is about, don't ruin it for everyone else, honey.
  1. Generic Stranger 13 years ago
    
    I don't really want to beelabor the point, but really, compared to drones dropping bombs indiscriminately and swarms of police officers prosecuting victimless crimes, who gives a shit about this? Maybe I'm not meshing with the hive mind on this one, but this doesn't really trip my "abuse of power" antenna.
    1. RBS 13 years ago
      
      That's why it's a brickbat. I'm still amazed that people do not get the point of these things after all this time.
JeremyR 13 years ago

Erm, since when do wasps (which Yellow Jackets are) live in hives? They have nests, which don't really look like beehives at all.

That said, does it really matter? Bees are the jerks that wasps are, but they can still sting...
1. Generic Stranger 13 years ago
  
  A big wasps nest can sometimes resemble a hive.
2. RBS 13 years ago
  
  Seem like the people who actually live in the neighborhood did not have a problem with the bees. Probably making their damn artisanal honey...
3. Spartacus 13 years ago
  
  Yellow jackets generally make their nests undergraound, at least here in the South. It's really not that hard to tell them from bees.
tigtow 13 years ago

lol thats some pretty funny stuff dude. Wow.

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