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Beekeeper jailed after releasing insects on authorities trying to evict her friend
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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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.
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.
I really want to watch the prosecution try to claim she has the power to command bees.
i stung the sheriff
but i did not sting the deputy
Protect the bees, protect this queen
FLY MY PRETTIES
Based.
Movie about this.
Has the chick from The Labyrinth in it.
John Travolta sure looked different when he was younger.
free her
Did they get Jason Statham as a counter bee keeper?
Counter? He was the Beekeeper LoL
This would be great inspiration for another movie. The first one was loads of fun.
They're just filming the next Spider-Man over there.
I think I found a backstory for my new new chaotic good character.
Druid, one would presume.
Based
Now all heroes wear capes, some wear beekeeper outfit.
She should marry Jason Statham.