Lynbrook officials stung with $5 million bee lawsuit

[TexasTowelie]

Sixteen months after their honeybee hive was destroyed, a Lynbrook couple is stinging back against village officials with a $5 million lawsuit.

Daryl Altman and her husband, Robert Shepard, filed the suit on Aug. 31, alleging that their rights and property were violated in June 2017 when the hive was removed from the backyard of their home on Rowe Avenue while they were at work.

“Basically, the village took the property when my clients were away from their home and destroyed it without any due process,” said Lee Snead, the Bellport-based attorney who is representing Altman and Shepard.

The couple said that on June 26, 2017, an inspector from the village, members of the building and police departments and a professional beekeeper entered their backyard and destroyed the hive, vacuuming up some 60,000 bees. Officials said the hive violated village code, and fined the couple more than $300 after it was removed.

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[murielm99]

1. Keep us updated on this one.

We have a bee situation in my community. The bee owners think it is over. I do not agree with them.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. That's a lotta bees! The article doesn't say just what the neighbors were complaining about, but...

density there is tight, backyards on their street are tiny, and I'm sure more than one bee has landed in the fruit salad over the summer. Not the place for what would be getting close to a commercial operation.

On my end of the island we love beehives because of the farms and open land, but I don't know many people who want to live 10 feet from a hive. But, some people just live to complain about stuff.

The Lynbrook law seems to be to be about rats and roaches in unkempt properties, not bees, but interesting how this turns out.