Spilled bees on highway a honey of a mess

[emad]

CNN
Thursday, December 16, 2004 Posted: 11:27 AM EST (1627 GMT)



Boxes carrying 12 million bees are scattered near a highway ramp in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- A truck carrying 12 million honeybees hit a wall on a highway ramp, dumping its load across the pavement shortly before the evening rush hour.

The truck was carrying 480 bee colonies, each with 25,000 insects, to California to pollinate the state's almond crop when it struck the wall Wednesday afternoon.

The collision spilled the bees and gallons of honey onto the highway and forced troopers to close the ramp for more than four hours.

State police believe the driver lost control on the curving ramp.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/16/bee.spill.ap/index.html

Honey, I shrank the truckload...

[Richardo]

1. Homer's nightmare

"Whaddaya gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you?"

[redqueen]

2. Saw this last night on Olbermann

Amazing footage...

[seafey]

3. I drove past this last night and didn't know what was going on...

I didn't see any bees though.