The Bees! The Bees! A famous man once screamed as he was repeatedly stung by the fuzzy little honeymakers. A Texas man has suffered a similar fate, being stung to death by a swarm of bees after disturbing their nest.
While mowing a lawn in Friendship Park in Eastland, Texas man Stephen Daniel ran over a bees’ nest. Instantly, they were enraged, and flew after the man. He tried his best to evade them, but they had him in his sights.
He fled, but the swarm of bees continued to chase him down. The elderly man ran for his vehicle, hoping that by closing the doors, he would be able to get away from the majority of the stinging insects. But it was all to no avail. The bees still hounded him as he drove his vehicle in a blind panic.
In pain and confusion, he careened into a neighboring yard, smashing through the fence. Chrishae Cooper noticed the man driving erratically as he tried to avoid the bees, stinging the Texas man to death. As Cooper watch the man swerve, uncontrolled, into their yard, they called the Police.
“Before I walked up there, I just started dialing 911 because I didn’t know, like he was in someone’s yard at first. Then you got closer, and you could just see like something swarming,” they told KTXS. It was clear that the man was in distress. The cloud of bees could be seen from quite a distance.
Police Come To Man’s Rescue, But The Swarm Of Bees Have Done Their Damage
Recalling the harrowing event, Cooper said, “He was trying to still escape from the bees ’cause he started driving away, and he made it onto the street. But the police finally showed up and turns out he was literally getting attacked by a lot of bees.”
Police arrived on the scene to assist the man being swarmed by hundreds of angry bees. They pulled him from his vehicle and put him in a police cruiser. They managed to get him far enough away, and to safety, but it was already too late.
“Officers requested an ambulance. The driver while in the ambulance became unresponsive and stopped breathing,” the local police said in a statement. “Life-saving measures were administered and the driver was rushed to Eastland Memorial Hospital, where he succumbed to the effects of the bee stings.”
The sheer amount of poison from the bees caused a circulatory collapse in the Texas man.