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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Bastet on October 08, 2013, 08:55:56 PM
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Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, spring onions and corn where his friend, Yu Yihong, had been stung to death by giant hornets.
"When he got to the hospital, there were still two hornets in his trousers," said Chen, a farmer who, like many villagers, declined to give his full name to a foreign journalist. "The hornets' poison was too strong – his liver and kidneys failed, and he couldn't urinate."
Yu, a square-jawed 40-year-old farmer in perfect health, had been harvesting his crops when he stepped on a nest of Vespa mandarinia hornets concealed beneath a pile of dry corn husks. The hornets swarmed around Yu, stinging him through his long-sleeved shirt and trousers. He ran, but the hornets chased him, stinging his arms and legs, his head and neck.
After Yu succumbed to the poison about 50 of his friends and relatives gathered to mourn his passing. Outside the farmer's mountainside home in Yuanba village, they ate preserved eggs, buckwheat noodles and boiled peanuts in silence; one set off a string of fireworks. Yu's wife and two children sat inside, weeping.
V mandarinia is the world's largest hornet, around the size of a human adult's thumb, yellow and black in colour and highly venomous. Its 6mm-long stingers carry a venom potent enough to dissolve human tissue. Victims may die of kidney failure or anaphylactic shock.
More (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/killer-hornets-chinese-city-living-in-fear)
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Scary fellas :nerdy:
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We have these sons of bitches in Indiana.
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We have these sons of bitches in Indiana.
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Aren't hornets lke bees? Or am I mistaken? All the workers are female.
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I dunno. I do know they are aggressive though, and if you kill one they'll swarm. Being stung is a nightmare.
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Wow that sucks. I hate wasps.
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They got in a dead tree in my dad's backyard once. We made gas bombs out of Christmas ornaments, and shot where their nest was with a bunch of buckshot. Once there was a good sized hole, we fired some exploding shells into it, then threw a couple of gas bombs in, then shot it again after giving em a few hours to return to the nest.
They all died. :pwned: :pwned:
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I hate wasps too. I spray poison on them or blow up their nests! :arrr:
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Well that time, I used exploding shotgun shells and fire bombs. It was extravagant and glorious.
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I have always loved fucking around with bees and hornets. When I was little I used to catch them in jars and throw rocks at their nests. They also used to nest underground at my grandmothers where I would pour gas down the hole wait a bit then ignite it, it would shoot flames like a rocket out the hole. At work I like using the shop vac and position the hose right by the entrance, I have even rigged it up so I didn't have to hold it and left it running for a half hour. Hoses and pressure washers work well also.
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Bees make honey at least. Wasps should just die :thumbdn:
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Bees make honey at least. Wasps should just die :thumbdn:
Bees are not that aggressive normally and I will leave them alone unless I need to do work where they are
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I have always loved fucking around with bees and hornets. When I was little I used to catch them in jars and throw rocks at their nests. They also used to nest underground at my grandmothers where I would pour gas down the hole wait a bit then ignite it, it would shoot flames like a rocket out the hole. At work I like using the shop vac and position the hose right by the entrance, I have even rigged it up so I didn't have to hold it and left it running for a half hour. Hoses and pressure washers work well also.
You and me both, man. I hate those damn things.