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A total of six people have been killed in northeast China after a truck carrying dozens of beehives overturned, releasing a swarm of bees which stung three to death and later provoked three further fatalities as two lorries collided while attempting to avoid the massed insects. The truck bearing the beehives crashed into a …

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  1. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
    Happy

    Whilst this is an interesting story...

    I can't quite understand what the buzz is all about.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    Recession

    Thats it !

    There goes the chinese economy ...

  3. Stuart
    Coat

    New sat nav option....

    ...avoid bee roads.

    Mine's the big white one with the gauze like hood.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Dangerous Highways, Safe Cities

    Driving on Chinese highways is very dangerous. European people who are new in China who come to work in my office are often a bit terrified at the start due to the risky way cars and lorries overtake each other. High speeds + risky driving behaviour + many overloaded lorries + no-one wearking their seatbelt = lots of deaths.

    In the cities themselves, the speeds are pretty slow. Car drivers need to keep a constant eye for people and bikes suddenly cutting across them - and because a car hitting someone often means the car driver having to negotiate a payment to the person they just knocked, the car drivers do act carefully (they still drive in a way that would make Westerners very worried, but they can brake in time each time some emergency comes up which is quite often).

  5. Jason Croghan
    Paris Hilton

    '...as pictures in the Telegraph show.'

    Am I the only person who can't see anyone wearing any protective clothing??

    I see one guy with a jacket over his head alright but I can't say I would class that as protective hahahaha.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00873/bee-crash-460a_873158c.jpg

    Paris; cause even she wouldn't go out in that with only a jacket over her head for protection!

  6. Goat Jam
    IT Angle

    Ummm

    I wonder what sort of yellow hazardous cargo sign you need when you are carrying swarms of deadly bees on your lorry?

    In future I will keep an eye out and make sure I have all my windows up when I see one,.

  7. Nick Hauxwell
    Happy

    IT Angle

    You could say they need to create a RAID array

    Boom Boom

    Coat, Hat and Gloves are on the left there

  8. DAN*tastik

    Reading too much of el Reg maybe?

    But was I the only one hoping that the Telegraph would have a playmobil reconstruction of the accident?

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    Inquiring minds want to know...

    ... were these robo-brain-control DARPA bees, by any chance?

    Black helicopter, because it's all a CIA black-ops conspiracy. Probably.

  10. TimM
    Black Helicopters

    So is this...

    ... where all the British bees have gone? Are the Chinese secretly swiping our bees?

  11. Aortic Aneurysm
    Unhappy

    incredible.

    That the only Bee pun I could think of, was already used

  12. Bad Beaver
    Thumb Up

    Gotta love Globalisation

    Not only are we supposed to take notice whenever somewhere in China the good ol' sack'o'rice tips over, no, we also get pictures.

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @ Aortic Aneurysm

    Honey, they get worse.

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Surprised...

    ...this wasn't written by Sarah Bee

  15. kain preacher

    Aortic Aneurysm

    That the only Bee pun I could think of, was already used.

    Did you ask Sarah

  16. Dave Wallace

    IT Angle - Sarah

    Sarah - got stinging remark?

  17. Christoph

    @ TimM

    "Are the Chinese secretly swiping our bees?"

    No, the goverment have hived them off.

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Doubtless, they'll show it...

    On the Bee-Bee-See

  19. kain preacher

    Ok

    The reg needs a contest for bad puns

  20. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @ Jason Croghan

    From what I've read, Paris has had more pricks than a second-hand dartboard.

    Her biggest worry would be if it matched her outfit. Red polka dot frock I should imagine, and some prophylactics for protection

  21. Martin

    @AC, 12:30

    I wonder what the correlation is between the likelihood of pedestrians/cyclists darting out in front of cars; and the likelihood that they could receive cash for being hit?

    Just a thought.

  22. Elmer Phud
    Happy

    @kain

    to quote Austin Powers and many others "Oh, Beehive"

    (Do bees have nectar cards?)

  23. Andrew Abdul-Malek
    Stop

    that road..

    "There had been seven deadly accidents on the same section of road in three months, the newspaper said. "

    ...might be cursed?

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