[at-l] OT - Bees
Point North
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Thu Dec 14 12:51:22 CST 2006
Yikes! I'll think twice before hiking in Arizona or Texas.
Dust <pcttdust at yahoo.com> wrote: Before you bring killer bees into your neighborhood and start inviting stings for your health, look here:
http://www.stingshield.com/news.htm
HIKER STUNG BY BEES WANTS OTHERS TO BE SAFE
PRESCOTT, AZ --- He fell 50 feet down a mountain, was stung by bees dozens of times and had a leg amputated. Now, the Papago Park hiker rescued last week wants to make sure the same thing doesn't happen to anyone else.
Santiago Corrales was climbing down a mountain at Papago Park last week when he was stung more than 100 times, eventually falling and breaking his leg.
"What is more important -- the life of the bees or the life of the people?" he asked. "What are they waiting to happen?"
Corrales contacted a lawyer and hopes to make changes so bees don't attack anyone else, but he said not much progress has been made. (KTVK-TV 3 NEWS, 10/11/06.)
BEES ATTACK HIKER, FIREFIGHTERS
PAPAGO BUTTES, AZ ---- Bees attacked a man at Papago Buttes Monday afternoon and then went after rescuers. A fire official said one firefighter was stung at least 100 times and was transported to the hospital. Golfers reportedly heard the 21-year-old man screaming as he was being attacked by a swarm of bees. He was stuck in a crevice on the side of the mountain. Rescuers attempted to climb down the mountain to rescue the hiker, but were stung by bees.
BEE ATTACK KILLS 90-YEAR-OLD MAN WHILE HE MOWS LAWN
MC FADDIN, TX --- Alfred Buentello, 90, died Monday afternoon after he was attacked by bees while mowing his lawn on Buentello Road near Wharburton Road, just west of McFaddin.
"The man was mowing in his backyard next to an old wooden building, a vacant barn, when the bees attacked," said Victoria County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy John Kasper. He said the bees came from the barn.
Buentello's wife was in the house when she heard him yelling. She attempted to help him, but was unable to and then called 911, Kasper said.
Buentello and his wife were taken to DeTar Hospital Navarro, where he was pronounced dead.
MAN DIES AFTER BEES ATTACK HIM AND HIS FATHER
SIERRA VISTA, AZ --- A 39-year-old man died after a swarm of bees attacked him and his father.
The two men were working on a roof Sunday when they accidentally disturbed a bee hive. While the father sought refuge inside the home, the son stayed outside to try to ward off the bees, said Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department.
The father was stung about 100 times, but his son was fatally stung about 300 times. The father was stable in stable condition at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Sunday afternoon, Capas said. It was unclear whether the son died at the house or at the hospital.
Jan Leitschuh wrote:
And they say the stings are good for arthritis - very interesting subject to hikers.
;-)
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
-Genesis 3:17-19
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