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Beekeeper jailed after releasing insects on authorities trying to evict her friend (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.