THIRTY THOUSAND HONEYBEES COVER WOMANS CAR IN KNOXVILLE

Here’s an interesting story out of Knoxville about a car being attacked by thousands of bees.  We’re not sure who counted the bees, but that’s a lot of bees to be covering a car any way you look at it.

WATE-TV KNOXVILLE

The car wash is never really a quiet place, but on Wednesday it had a different kind of buzz for Jennifer King. There were still two to three honeybees attached to her car. She decided not to wash her Mazda fearing more bees would be hiding under her wheel well.

King found her car covered in a swarm of bees on Tuesday.

“My reaction, I probably can’t say on camera,” she told WATE 6 On Your Side.

King is the general manager at the Melting Pot in the Old City. During her shift on Tuesday, a friend came in.

“And goes, ‘Have you looked at your car lately?’ And I said, ‘Did someone hit it?’ And he said no. He shows me this picture and I couldn’t understand what it was,” said King.

Thousands of bees had swarmed on her back bumper, near the wheel and onto the trunk. King says they called in a beekeeper.

“My first reaction was to blow my car up,” she said.  READ FULL STORY HERE