A shoplifter releases a jar of bees on K-Mart employees to escape

[Champ]

SEDALIA, Mo. — A suspected shoplifter caused quite a buzz when he used honeybees to extricate himself from a sticky situation at a local K-Mart store.

Security personnel followed a shoplifting suspect into a bathroom. But when they opened the restroom door, they were overcome with about 100 buzzing bees.

"He probably started yelling 'Bees! Bees,' then created this big diversion and got away," said Commander John DeGonia, of the Sedalia Police Department. "He must have walked into the store with them in a jar or a container."

Store employees used bug spray to contain the bees. But the thief got away with about $60 worth of CDs, perfume, batteries and a pair of scissors.
http://www.power-of-attorneys.com/buzzing_bees.htm

[Richardo]

1. "Whaddaya going to do? Release the dogs? Or the bees?...

...Or the dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you?"

- Homer Simpson

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Props to the shoplifter for a novel distraction method.

It was pretty clever.

[realisticphish]

3. like in tommy boy

where they get away from the cops by running around yelling bees


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[DuaneBidoux]

4. This is what Greenspan meant by "The Conceptual Economy"

There is not another country in the world where a thief could conceive of something so creative. And it goes all the way up the ladder to the corporations.

[underpants]

5. An Evil Genius

His goal-to get a MILLION dollars $60 at a time

[Bluebear]

6. It was a "sting" operation

Ha ha ha ha.

[kick-ass-bob]

8. what's worse? That you said it,

or that I laughed?

:D

[Richardo]

9. Why I oughtta....

Good one, Bluebear. :D

[Richardo]

7. 'Pair of scissors'?

Is there a black market for scissors I'm not aware of? :shrug:

[kick-ass-bob]

10. he must have had to cut open the

bag of bees!

[ET Awful]

14. No, it was to cut those protective sleeves off the CD's

He had to get his ill-gotten gains open somehow :)

[underpants]

12. Actually the real score is in the single scissor

For those who've lost one.

[Mojambo]

11. The criminal mind is often hilarious n/t

[truthbetold]

13. Hahaha, oh man...

I read that as "THE BEES got away with about $60 worth of CDs, perfume, batteries and a pair of scissors."
Which makes it all the more hilarious, I think.