"Murder Hornets -- but With the Right Lawyer, Manslaughter Bees"

Seen online, via Richard Peltz-Steele (The Savory Tort), and lawyer Jennifer T. Langley.

Comments

[librarian]

and the right lawyer would be.... a WASP?

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Ooooh, Eddy's gonna be so jealous!

[librarian]

Sorry I said anything, I guess.

[Dr. Ed]

WASPs aren't get admitted to law school anymore 🙁 🙁 🙁

[librarian]

Who's taking their place? Black Anglo-Saxon Protestants?

[grb]

Apparently some Japanese honeybees defend themselves against the Murder Hornet by swarming over her and vibrating their tiny behinds until they reach a temperature of 116 degrees. The bees can stand up to 118 degrees; the hornet only 115. They roast the hornet alive.

How would that stand up in court?

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[Rossami]

It's more than just Japanese honeybees. That is a tactic used by all honeybees to kill many varieties of wasps. It's also how the workers kill an unwanted or unhealthy queen bee. It's called balling the queen.

(Yeah, not nearly as much fun as the name suggests.)

[Krychek_2]

Maybe I’m missing something, but if there are enough bees to swarm and cook the wasps, wouldn’t it be a lot more efficient to swarm and sting the wasps? That’s what I would expect to happen to me if I attacked a hive.

[Rossami]

Honeybees have barbed stingers. When the honeybee pulls away, the stinger, venom sac and part of their abdomen remains behind. Therefore, a honeybee that stings a wasp is also committing suicide. A honeybee that is part of a ball, however, can walk away from it after.

[Zarniwoop]

Nah. With the right lawyer, "self-defense butterflies".

[hardreaders]

They’ll invoke the hive doctrine.

[Karl_L]

Rewritten as a haiku:

Murder hornets, but
With the right lawyer on it,
now manslaughter bees!