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Beekeeper jailed after releasing insects on authorities trying to evict her friend
(www.theguardian.com)
I think we can add this to the line up of Luigi and Paper Mario.
Rebecca Woods insisted she only released her truckload of hives to allow the bees to enjoy the “lovely, flowering landscape” near the home of an elderly friend and cancer patient.
She could have done 10 times worse and I would never have voted to convict, had I been on the jury.
The court heard that Woods was told during the encounter that some deputies were allergic to bees, and that she replied: “Oh, you’re allergic? Good!”
Balls of steel.
Additionally, about a thousand of Woods’s bees died during the encounter, many of them crushed when several hives toppled as she wrestled with deputies trying to arrest her, and others because female honeybees die after delivering their sting.
It's a good thing this was a Massachusetts suburb or several more bees may have been shot at in the kerfuffle. Those bees are half-black, after all.
My goodness. Here's a useless updoot.
I really kinda wanna see Seth Rogan as a cop yelling 'Stop Resisting!" as he shoots blindly at a swarm of bees.
Jonah Hill or Will Farrell could do, too, I guess...it has a 21 Jump Street or The Other Guys kinda feel to it...but it needs that Seth Rogan guttural yell.
Based.
i stung the sheriff
but i did not sting the deputy
Protect the bees, protect this queen
Dammit, this was a better reference.
Nonsense, I love your meme
Free Rebecca!
The bee?
Nvm, read the article
FLY MY PRETTIES
I think I found a backstory for my new new chaotic good character.
Druid, one would presume.
Did they get Jason Statham as a counter bee keeper?
Counter? He was the Beekeeper LoL
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXdVumCVqM
Potato quality warning
Queen 👑
We all need friends like that.
Based
free her
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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