July 22, 2007, 10:31PM
Couple recovering from bee attack
© 2007 The Associated Press
COPPERAS COVE, Texas - A Copperas Cove couple are recovering from an
attack by bees that swarmed over them as they returned from checking the
construction progress of their new home.
Doctors stopped counting Karen Folger's stings at 500. Charlie Folger had
more than 100 stings on each arm after the attack earlier this month. The
couple's 13-year-old daughter, 11-year-old son and 2-year-old son were
protected from the attack inside the family's sport utility vehicle.
Charlie Folger said he felt something hit his ear as he started to get
into the SUV.
"Then I swatted at it, and it felt like five bullets hit me in the back of
the head," Folger said. "I heard this roar, and I looked down, and my
shirt, my arms were just covered in bees. I couldn't see any skin. It was
literally two seconds from the first sting on my ear to the time they
covered me."
The Folgers both said the bees filled their mouths, making it difficult to
breathe. They said doctors at a local hospital told them they were lucky
to survive the July 8 attack.
Lampasas police Sgt. Tony Barrio said he'd never encountered such a
ferocious bee attack.
"I've been doing this 17 years, and I've never seen an attack like that.
I've been on a lot of bee calls, and I've never been aggressively pursued
by bees," he said.
"The fire department put a thousand gallons of water down that tree and
hit it with two hoses," he continued, but it hardly slowed them down. "At
that point, we sealed off the street for a half a mile."
As he was swarmed, Charlie Folger ran down the road, trying to get the
bees off.
"I ran to the top of the intersection and stopped so I could clear my
throat because they filled my mouth," Folger said in a story in Sunday's
Killeen Daily Herald. "I chewed them up and swallowed them to keep them
from blocking my airways. I was pulling them out of my mouth and just
crushing them with my hands."
He finally found help at a nearby home, but didn't realize his wife and
children were still back at the vehicle where Karen Folger was covered in
bees.
"They hit me so hard, they came immediately," she said. "I never really
saw the swarm, I couldn't wrap my brain around it. It hurt so bad; it felt
like I was on fire. What can I do? I was just trying to get myself out of
the situation."
She said she couldn't open her mouth because the bees poured in. The
couple's 13-year-old daughter called police from within the SUV.
Charlie Folger said he thought the bees might have swarmed because of
noise from a passing motorcycle.
Entomologist Alexis Park at the University of California-Riverside, who
studies the swarming behavior of European honeybees, believes the Folgers
unknowingly disturbed a parent colony of Africanized honeybees.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4989525.html
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24 Jul 2007 03:22:09 AM |
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"Docrodile" <swampth...@hellsbayou.net> wrote:
Couple recovering from bee attack
Irrelevant... unoriginal... why, mental case, I do
believe you've found your niche!
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| User: "Docrodile" |
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24 Jul 2007 03:53:17 AM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185265329.994149.142410@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
"Docrodile" <swampth...@hellsbayou.net> wrote:
Couple recovering from bee attack
Irrelevant... unoriginal... why, mental case, I do
believe you've found your niche!
You're terribly confused, lil' demented fairy, about what's original and
unoriginal. Shall we go back to the archives to view your trivial
'Nostradamus in the News" series which so bored us to death?
Gee...whatever happened to that *fascinating* regular contribution? ROFL
!!!
Prance, lil' fairy, prance for your bi-sexual master!! PRANCE for papa!!
Less lip, more prancing!!
LOL!!!
;))~~
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| User: "Docrodile" |
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24 Jul 2007 04:55:14 PM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185265329.994149.142410@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
"Docrodile" <swampth...@hellsbayou.net> wrote:
Couple recovering from bee attack
Irrelevant... unoriginal... why, mental case, I do
believe you've found your niche!
Wish the african bees had stung your *****...
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