Beekeeper jailed after releasing insects on authorities trying to evict her friend

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/massachusetts-beekeeper-jailed-eviction

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/64647882

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limonfiesta@lemmy.world · 153 pts · 116d (1 reply)

Rebecca Woods insisted she only released her truckload of hives to allow the bees to enjoy the “lovely, flowering landscape” near the home of an elderly friend and cancer patient.

She could have done 10 times worse and I would never have voted to convict, had I been on the jury.

village604@adultswim.fan · 44 pts · 116d

I really want to watch the prosecution try to claim she has the power to command bees.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 84 pts · 116d (2 replies)

The court heard that Woods was told during the encounter that some deputies were allergic to bees, and that she replied: “Oh, you’re allergic? Good!”

Balls of steel.

Additionally, about a thousand of Woods’s bees died during the encounter, many of them crushed when several hives toppled as she wrestled with deputies trying to arrest her, and others because female honeybees die after delivering their sting.

It's a good thing this was a Massachusetts suburb or several more bees may have been shot at in the kerfuffle. Those bees are half-black, after all.

Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 114d (1 reply)

My goodness. Here's a useless updoot.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 114d

I really kinda wanna see Seth Rogan as a cop yelling 'Stop Resisting!" as he shoots blindly at a swarm of bees.

Jonah Hill or Will Farrell could do, too, I guess...it has a 21 Jump Street or The Other Guys kinda feel to it...but it needs that Seth Rogan guttural yell.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 116d

Based.

Murse@slrpnk.net · 58 pts · 116d (2 replies)

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 38 pts · 116d

i stung the sheriff

but i did not sting the deputy

garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 116d (4 replies)

Protect the bees, protect this queen

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 35 pts · 116d (3 replies)

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 115d (2 replies)

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Dammit, this was a better reference.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 114d

Nonsense, I love your meme

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 116d

FLY MY PRETTIES

thenextguy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 116d (2 replies)

BEES!!!

daannii@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 116d (1 reply)

Movie about this.

Has the chick from The Labyrinth in it.

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 116d

John Travolta sure looked different when he was younger.

DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 116d (1 reply)

I think I found a backstory for my new new chaotic good character.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 12 pts · 116d

Druid, one would presume.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 116d

PapstJL4U@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 116d (2 replies)

Did they get Jason Statham as a counter bee keeper?

green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 116d
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village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 116d

This would be great inspiration for another movie. The first one was loads of fun.

Sirdubdee@piefed.social · 10 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Free Rebecca!

CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 115d

The bee?

Nvm, read the article

Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 116d

free her

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXdVumCVqM

Potato quality warning

khannie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d

Queen 👑

We all need friends like that.

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d

Based

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 114d

GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d

I think we can add this to the line up of Luigi and Paper Mario.

Elilol@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 116d
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null@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 116d

They're just filming the next Spider-Man over there.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 116d
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