# Man found dead, covered in bees **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226 "2011-11-08T00:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/1 "2011-11-08T00:00:25Z")
[Cite](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/mh-bee-death-20111106,0,6488116.story). I’m not sure why they think our own **Covered In Bees** is involved. (I hope the newspaper doesn’t change the headline - right now it reads exactly as the thread title, but they’ve been known to play around.) -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/2 "2011-11-08T00:09:32Z")
Did you hear him, **covered in bees** , a man was found dead?! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/3 "2011-11-08T00:45:49Z")
This is the story that really got \*my \*attention today: > [@](#): > > An object found on a Queens lawn Sunday night that was initially reported to be a small child’s severed foot is not a human foot at all, the medical examiner’s office said Monday morning. A forensic anthropologist in the medical examiner’s office has inspected the object and “believes it could be a bear foot,” said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office. She spelled it out over the phone. “B-E-A-R.” What the hell kind of ugly, hairy, feral child did they think that _was?_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/4 "2011-11-08T02:22:07Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > What the hell kind of ugly, hairy, feral child did they think that _was?_ Hobbit? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/5 "2011-11-08T02:38:43Z")
Bees are on the what now? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/6 "2011-11-08T02:55:42Z")
This will bee a tough case. They have 60,000 suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/7 "2011-11-08T03:01:07Z")
The buzz around here is that he was caught in a sting operation of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/8 "2011-11-08T03:14:33Z")
You can’t prove I was there! I demand a lawyer! **Clothahump** totally wins the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/9 "2011-11-08T03:24:36Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > This is the story that really got \*my \*attention today: > > What the hell kind of ugly, hairy, feral child did they think that _was?_ A bear paw with the skin removed looks [eerily like a human hand](http://www.acsalaska.net/~fmurtley/bearpaw.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/10 "2011-11-08T03:28:18Z")
I can’t hear what you are saying. You are Covered In Bees! and they are loud. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/11 "2011-11-08T03:33:01Z")
Was you ever bit by a dead bee? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/12 "2011-11-08T03:43:38Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > You can’t prove I was there! I demand a lawyer! Don’t worry. I bee-lieve you. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/13 "2011-11-08T04:00:24Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Don’t worry. I bee-lieve you. > -D/a Since the poor guy was found dead, still covered in bees, there was no bee leaving the victim however. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/14 "2011-11-08T04:20:13Z")
I’ll bet they were having a ball. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/15 "2011-11-08T04:56:16Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Was you ever bit by a dead bee? Mebbe. My first, and so far only, bee sting was when I was six, flying a kite in a field; while tugging backward I landed on my ass, and, apparantly, a bee. The bee didn’t survive, though my ass was sore for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/16 "2011-11-08T04:58:01Z")
Just thought I’d test my link function by posting [this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpO4gvW6D3Q) Ah good, it works. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/17 "2011-11-08T04:59:55Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Just thought I’d test my link function by posting [this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpO4gvW6D3Q) So close. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/18 "2011-11-08T05:33:02Z")
I’m sure they could twist this into an episode of _Castle_. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/19 "2011-11-08T06:05:35Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > This is the story that really got \*my \*attention today: > > What the hell kind of ugly, hairy, feral child did they think that _was?_ Eve, you slay me. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226/20 "2011-11-08T06:30:58Z")
How many bees does it take to kill an electrician? 60,000 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-found-dead-covered-in-bees/602226.md?page=2)