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Firefighters had to spray
millions of angry bees with foam and water, after a semi-truck overturned on an
interstate on the outskirts of Seattle early on Friday.
“Everybody’s been stung,”
Sergeant Ben Lewis of the Washington State Patrol told local TV stations at the
scene.
The driver told the
police he blew a front tire as he tried to merge from I-405 to I-5, causing the
truck to tip, spilling most of the 458 beehives on-board, over a trail of about
100 yards.
Many of the bees died on
the spot, while others were quiescent in the dawn light, before becoming
aggressive as the sun came up.
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UPDATE: Possibly 14 million bees were in this
truck!
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While police shut off two
lanes, beekeepers, called up for an unusual emergency, kept smoking the hives
with pungent substance that kept the bees disoriented and swarming on the spot,
instead of attacking the passing traffic.
Coincidentally,
the Seattle crash happened just one day after a similarly rare accident in
southern France, in which one million bees were killed. La Depeche newspaper
reported that after a van with 72 beehive frames struck a car, the bees became
stuck in their own nectar, and "glued into a kind of puree."
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