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David James

‘Oh, you’re allergic? Good!’: Massachusetts beekeeper jailed after freeing bees to defend cancer patient friend from cops

Never get on the wrong side of a beekeeper. A group of Sheriff’s Deputies learned this important lesson when they arrived to evict an elderly man in his 80s who was suffering from cancer. His friend, 59-year-old Rebecca Woods, decided that this injustice would not stand and has just been jailed for six months for delivering bee-related vengeance.

Woods arrived at her friend’s property in Springfield, Massachusetts, in her beekeeper’s suit, and the deputies carrying out the eviction anxiously realized “she’s got a truckful of bees!” She then freed the bees, with the cops reacting in horror as her insectoid minions swarmed them, causing them to frantically wave their arms in a futile defense against being stung.

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