Ottawa, Ontario Canada 05/23/07
Ottawa man hospitalized trying to photograph a bee.
An Ottawa man, who prefers to remain nameless, remains in hospital after a bizarre incident involving a bee. The man was entered in a digital photo scavenger hunt contest being held on a website which prefers to remain nameless. Apparently one of the photo requirements the contest runner, in his infinite wisdom, deemed necessary was that of a bee.
The man was irate that while the town was lousy with flowers, due to the annual Tulip Festival, and yet he couldn’t find one f*%king bee. In an attempt to attract bees, which he f%&king knew were in the city but felt were just avoiding him, he rolled around in a bed of tulips in attempt to cover his body with pollen or whatever is bees like.
After walking around aimlessly for hours the man did spot a bee in a busy downtown intersection. He brought out his camera and tried to photograph said bee, but the damn thing wouldn’t keep still. Figuring he rolled around in tulips damnit, he needed one f*%king picture of one f*%king bee the man decided he would not give up that easily.
Unfortunately the man’s dogged determination led him to follow the bee into oncoming traffic where he was hit by a truck. As luck would have it the truck that hit the man was carrying millions of bees, some of which became free, and agitated, when the truck came to a sudden stop. The pollen then did appear to attract the bees which was at least a little bit of consolation for the man, who until then had begun to feel stupid for thinking it would work.
The man is in serious, but stable condition, in the Ottawa Civic hospital. Visitation is not recommended as all the man can say is “I should have gone for the rub_n_tizzug pic”.
Mongoose Sentinal Staff Reporter