A Massachusetts woman allegedly protested her eviction by releasing swarms of bees onto police, and she’s now facing criminal charges. The woman, 55-year-old Rorie Susan Woods, allegedly pulled up to her home on Oct. 12 in an SUV with huge crates of manufactured bee hives. The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, whose officers were there to evict Woods, said she ripped lids off the crates and made the bees very aggressive. She put on a professional beekeeper’s outfit to carry “a tower of bees” to the home’s front door. The bees stung several cops “and other innocent bystanders,” the sheriff’s office said. Woods faces four counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, three counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, and a charge of disorderly conduct.
“I’m just thankful no one died because bee allergies are serious,” Robert Hoffman, chief deputy of the department’s Civil Process Office, said. Read more at the Boston Globe.
Great move
Is it a second amendment right to sic bees on cops.
Reminds me of the hundreds of cockroaches released in a NY courtroom a few months ago.
The cops will no doubt counter with a sting operation.
Great comment.
The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department did not respond to reporters’ inquiries on Wednesday as to whether the bees will be charged with criminal offense.
However, an attorney for the bees told reporters on Wednesday: “As far as I know, bees have never been arrested on stinging charges, so I don’t think there is anything to talk about. “Moreover,” the attorney added, “police officers conduct sting operations all the time, and, as far as I know, they’ve never been arrested for the sting operations.”
One of the bees, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, claimed that the bees were not at fault.
“The lady opened the lid and provoked us,” the bee insisted. “We were in a tizzy, and we couldn’t help ourselves.”
“If the police try to press charges against us,” the bee added, “we will claim that we were temporarily insane at the time the stinging occurred.”
They should have shot her
She should have BEEn on her best BEEhavior
Doesn’t US Army campaign- Bee all you can Bee, in the army