FARMER KILLED BY BEES

An angry swarm of bees killed a Texas farmer who accidentally disturbed a huge hive. Rogerio Zuniga was plowing a field on his tractor near Lorenzo, Texas, Sunday when he ran into an abandoned irrigation pipe that contained a 15-to-20 foot honeycomb. Hundreds of bees quickly attacked the third-generation farmer. He jumped off the tractor and ran about 100 yards away from the swarm before he collapsed in the field. Zuniga’s family discovered his bee-covered body after spotting the abandoned tractor in the field. “He had gaping wounds, the bees shredded him basically. It was horrible,” the victim’s sister said.
* It was horrible, in a that-would-be-cool-in-a-horror-movie kind of way.
* The bees were angry? I’m not sure angry covers it.
* He drove his tractor into the pipe? I’d give his tractor driving a “B”.
* I bet they were meat bees, as we learned about on Wednesday.
* A 15 to 20 foot honeycomb? The bees could have carried him away.
* This explains where all the disappearing bees have gone. Into a pipe in Lorenzo, Texas.
* Well, it’s a nice break from all the shark attacks. Or maybe not.
* Just when you think we’re in control on this planet, something like this happens.
* Like being a farmer isn’t tough enough already.
* He hit an abandoned irrigation pipe? It doesn’t sound abandoned to me.
* They needed the irrigation pipe to get the honey back to the hive.