Beekeeper suits up in 73-pound coat of bees

MSNBC ^ | David R Arnott

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

A Chinese beekeeper covered his body with 73 pounds (33.1 kg) of bees — that's an estimated 331,000 of the creatures — during a world record attempt on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

Local media reported that She Ping, 32, had broken the previous world record of 59 pounds (26.8 kg) of bees which had been set by another Chinese beekeeper, Ruan Liangming, in 2008.

However, the Guinness World Records website does not mention either man, instead awarding its "Heaviest mantle of bees" honor to Vipin Seth, an Indian whose burden is said to have weighed 136 lb 4 oz....

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

pics at the link

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ping!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[al_c]

But I thought bees were becoming extinct ... like the polar bear?!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Very cool!

[the invisib1e hand]

[the invisib1e hand]

She Ping ping?

[allmendream]

Bumble bee, bumble bee, please come back to me
He got the best old stinger any bumble bee that I ever seen

He stung me this morning, I been looking for him all day long
He stung me this morning, I been looking for him all day long
Lord, it got me to the place, hate to see my bumble bee leave home

Bumble bee, bumble bee, don’t be gone so long
Bumble bee, bumble bee, don’t be gone so long
You’s my bumble bee and you’re needed here at home

I can’t stand to hear him buzz, buzz, buzz
Come in, bumble bee, want you to stop your fuss
You’re my bumble bee and you know your stuff
Oh, sting me, bumble bee, until I get enough

-Memphis Minnie

[dfwgator]

[Charles Henrickson]

Ding ding ding! It’s a Bee Kee Ping She Ping Spring Ping Thing!

[the invisib1e hand]

lol

[Charles Henrickson]

Ding ding ding! It's a Bee Kee Ping She Ping Spring Ping Thing!

With no sting attached.

[the invisib1e hand]

how quaint. so she’s basically saying, “quit your buzzing and sting me.”

[allmendream]

Well it got her to ‘that place’ - so she hates to see her bumble bee leave home! ;)

[the invisib1e hand]

not a word about “honey.” I guess that would have been gratuitous.

[allmendream]

Memphis Minnie left that for Muddy Waters. ;)

Honey Bee - Muddy Waters

Sail on, sail on my little honey bee, sail on
Sail on, sail on my little honey bee, sail on
You gonna keep on sailing till you lose your happy home

Sail on, sail on my little honey bee, sail on
Sail on, sail on my little honey bee, sail on
I don’t mind you sailing, but please don’t sail so long

All right little honey bee...

I hear a lotta buzzing, sound like my little honey bee
I hear a lotta buzzing, sound like my little honey bee
She been all around the world making honey
But now she is coming back home to me

[the invisib1e hand]

This was a subject he reprised, apparently:

Well I'm a king bee
Buzzing around your hive
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Buzzing around your hive
Yeah I can make honey baby
Let me come inside


Well I'm a king bee
Want you to be my queen
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Want you to be my queen
Together we can make honey
The world has never seen


Well, buzz a while...
Sting you bad...


Well I'm a king bee
Can buzz all night long
Well I'm a king bee, baby
Can buzz all night long
Yeah I can buzz better baby
When your man is gone

[martin_fierro]

None of this

is any of our beeswax.

[mikrofon]

I thought bees were only to exterminate;
Go bug someone else, don’t bother me.
[But] Bees were out to get me,
That’s the way it seemed.
Stings & swarming haunted all my dreams.

Now they’re on my face- I’m a beekeeper
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
What a buzz (ooh-ahh) I’m a beekeeper!
‘Couldn’t be creepier if I tried...