Bee ware, there's another buzz behind
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efore you stop to get rid of that bee in your cab, think again. Truck driver Jack Ibbs thought he'd chase a couple of the buzzers out and before he knew it was being chased down the road by thousands of them. When fellow-trucker Brian Moore went to help, the bees turned on him too.
Both men ended up in Salisbury Infirmary being treated for multiple stings. Jack Ibbs, who works for Lintels in Cwmbran, had more than 100 stings removed. Brian Moore, from Pauls Agriculture in Avonmouth, got off more lightly, but said next time he'd call for help rather than fling himself into the heat of the battle.
Moore said: "I saw this man running up the road, frantically waving his arms and shouting for help. He was surrounded by bees: I tried to help but there was nothing I could do. Then they descended on me and I tell you I broke Christie's record running away."
The moral of the tale for Moore was that, while many drivers were too scared to let him into their cars to escape the bees, it was a trucker who finally opened his door and enabled him to call an ambulance for Ibbs.