700,000 Bees Found In Man's Home

[matcom]

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Lake Worth resident Norm Gitzen didn't mind the more than half-million bees living in the roof of his house until recently.

Rather, he said, they were "kind of mesmerizing," and he often sweetened his morning coffee with honey dripping from the hives.

But when the bees started coming into the house, stinging him and his nephew, his love of that cohabitation changed. Local beekeepers started removing at least 700,000 bees from a tower above his breakfast nook on Tuesday, filling four buckets with honey weighing close to 65 pounds.

"This will become a fantastic nuisance ... because they will grow and grow," said Palm Beach County Beekeepers Association President Ute Hartmann.

The weight of the hives could collapse Gitzen's roof, while the honey could attract ants and rodents, Hartmann said.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3398498/detail.html

[Spinzonner]

1. Honey - I'm Home

[matcom]

2. now THAT was awful!

:D

[matcom]

3. kick to make you all itchy and stuff

:P

[matcom]

4. one more

[proud patriot]

5. That's a lot of Honey

does the guy get to keep the honey?

[radwriter0555]

6. I had beekeepers take out 90 lbs of beehive and honey from a

building where I worked. It was in an exterior wall.

We didn't call the news over it.... hmmm......