Ned Hibberd's Blog

This job has its hazards.  I've been attacked by drunks and suspects and the subjects of Fox 26 investigations.  But until this month, I'd never been attacked by bees.

We were shooting a follow up story about an elderly lady living next door to an abandoned house that was infested with bees.

Our initial story sparked interest from a bee-keeper, who offered to relocate the bees, for free.

As my photographer rolled video, I snuck in to snap these pictures for our website.

But the bees apparently felt that their removal was none of our beeswax!  They swarmed both me and my cameraman.  Neither of us was wearing protective gear.

I ran down the street for a full block, flailing my arms and removing my suit jacket as i fled.  I even did a "stop, drop and roll," but without success.  The bees were in my hair, on my suit, and the buzzing sounded like it was coming from everywhere!

I ended up with three bee stings.  My photographer was stung a couple times, as well.

I'm just grateful he was distracted by the bees at the very moment I was running for the hills, or else I'm betting my graceless bee-swatting ballet would have been posted on YouTube by now!

Ned