At 6/28/07 03:40 PM, Depredation wrote:
Wasp Trouble
I've been stung on my ear lobe, that was painful :S. But i can guess ass-cheek is worse, atleast your not allergic :P.
I've got a good story about wasps.
So back in 2002, I was riding my mountain bike with two friends up in the foothills of Cali. We took a break midday and threw our backpacks under a tree. We didn't manage to see the wasp nest that was on the freakin ground for some reason under the tree, and the wasps came after us in a cloud. We ran for about half a mile, and every time we stopped, they caught up. The scary thing is that they can sting through clothing... it was terrible. We finally lost them after running about 3/4 a mile from the tree.
My friend was stung about 15-20 times in the back, and it was pretty bad. We needed to get to a hospital but had no way of getting into the car... the car keys were in the bag under the tree, as were our bikes and other gear.
So we went back to the tree after a few minutes, after we knew the bees were gone. We made protective clothing out of 5 rolls of dog poop bags they provide at the parking lot, and used our extra clothing and goods as armor. We approached the tree, and noticed they weren't bothering us when we picked up our stuff.
But then we realize the backpack, the ONE backpack with our car keys in it, was sitting right on top of the wasp nest. Shit! So what we did was two of us got down the mountain about a 1/4 mile, and set up a bike about 500 feet down the road from tree. My friend grabbed the backpack and ran like wholly hell and got on the bike down the road, and got on. Wholly shit, you should have saw the cloud of wasps after him.
The entire ride back to the parking lot was a constant fucking chase of wasps stinging us from behind, and god damn! Those things hurt so bad, its nothing like a bee sting. Its like a medical syringe going into your back in and out.