If you imagine Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” but replace the birds with bees you get a picture similar to that seen at the site of a truck accident on an Idaho highway, where a delivery truck driver veered of the shoulder of the road and tipped more than 400 beehives.
The accident released 14 million bees, which people in the area initially described as a strange black cloud making a roaring noise – like the smoke monster in Lost.
A whole lot of honey was also spilled on the highway, making drivers pull over and frantically lick the road (not really, but I would have done it if I was there).
Unfortunately though, this story is sort of a buzz kill because cleanup crews had to kill many the freed bees by spraying them with fire foam. And although no one was seriously injured in the accident or in the clean up efforts that followed, the loss of so many bees is quite tragic.
