Bees swarm car in Oklahoma (video)
In what looks like a scene from a horror film, a swarm of bees surrounded a police vehicle in Oklahoma City on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Associated Press, the honeybees had escaped from an overturned truck.
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The insects can be seen blocking almost the entire windshield as well as the passenger door window and the windows at the back of the car as well.
Fox News reports that a truck carrying hundreds of thousands of the insects overturned on the interstate, and it's thought that dozens of crates ended up spread across the nearby exit ramp.
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Scott Woods pulled the driver out of the truck and said: "I got stung on the lip, on the end of the nose, mouth, the side of the eye and then the back."
Professionals were sent to the site to try and recapture as many of the bees as possible but when night fell they had to set fire to the remaining crates to prevent the insects swarming people.
Although this may have been the safest option for humans, beekeeper Jim Stinson wasn't happy about the decision.
He told KOKH: "There is a bee shortage. [so] when they started talking about killing these bees here tonight, I threw a fit and said 'Don't do that till I get there.'"
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