Posted: 7/12/2007 10:28:37 AM EDT
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My son and his friend were playing on the jungle gym in the backyard. They both start screaming and i run over to them. After i pulled them out of it and swatted the yellow jackets off, my son was stung 3 times on his face. The neighbor kid got stung 4 times. This was a few hours ago, all the kids are fine, and the yellow jackets are dead. |
Good, because they very rarely sting away from their nest, and especially multiple times. Good job! 
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This was the first time my son had been stung, I was worried about that. My neighbor is very allergic to bee stings. She keeps epi pens on hand. |
| When I was a kid we found a nest in a similar fashion. I remember my Dad pouring a solo cup full of 87 octane down the hole and lighting those SOB’s up. As the little bastards came flying out, they were set ablaze and flew for a few feet before dropping. My uncle called it the “Hillbilly Roman Candle”. Never got stung in the back yard again. |
i have a beautiful story about someone doing that: back in the day i worked at a summer camp, and some of the guys said they were having trouble with a nest. We suggested they pour some gas down the hole to take care of them. What we meant was "if you pour a very small amount of gas in there, it will make the hole unlivable and the bees that dont die from the gas and fumes will leave and go nest elsewhere." what he heard was "pour an entire gallon of gas in there, light a match, and drop it in." He heard wrong.  I (thankfully) wasnt nearby when they decided to put their version of the plan into action, but i was not surprised to hear it involved a fireball, a small crater, and some missing hair. |
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About 4 years back I was mowing the yard I ran over a nest in the ground by a dead tree. Needless to say they were pissed and on me like white on rice. I was stung well over 10 times but I had well over 50 on me at one point. All of this happened in less then 3 seconds, they are really fast when pissed. The only thing that saved me is I was wearing dark blue jeans. They were attracted to the darker color and the denim protected me. I never ran so fast in my life from that mover and nest. The mover rolled into the woods and the kill switch shut it off but there was several hundred yellow jackets swarming it for about an hour. Yellow jackets are mid-evil. They have no mercy and their nest are damn hard to see down here in the south. Almost every year some poor old time farmer down here gets killed by them when moving hay bails or bush hogging. They attack anything that is dark, hot or makes a lot of noise if you are near their nests. I ended up in the ER for a few hours, but I was ok. I think I was the only english speaking Americian person in the waiting room with insurance, that really woke me up to the illegal alien problem back then. I got stung again by 2 yellow jackets about 2 years ago when using the chain saw making a tree stand. The nest was well over 50 yards away but the noise and vibration of the chainsaw pissed them off. If you have children or older family tell them to stay the hell away for these evil buggers, they have no mercy and can kill a child or old timer with ease. |
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They are some persistent little bastards. I had a nest in the lawn light pole one time. It was right beside my driveway. Those things swarmed out one day when I was getting in my truck and started slamming into my truck windows trying to get at me. Well I drove off and completely forgot about it. When I arrived at the store 10 miles away. One of them was still smacking into my front windshield. WTF? It must have hitched a ride or possibly they spray some pheromone that attracts other ones to attack. I don’t know but it freaked me out. LOL Later that night I fixed the problem by taping over the hole with duct tape. Never seen one again after that. |
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this thread reminds me of several good stories... When I was 5 and my bro was 3-4 we moved into a new house. We were walking around the neighborhood when we just walked near a bee hive that had fallen otu of a tree. The bees swarmed us. I have no clue how many times I was stung.....Alot!! Now I can be stung by bees and I feel no pain... When I was 13 and my brother was like 12 we got some crappy paintball guns from wally world. The pump action kind. Well I had noticed that some bees had taken up residence in an old bird house. Me and my brother got all suited up in masks and long sleeved shirts etc and went prone from ~75 yards and started shooting bees outside the nest and shooting paintballs into the hole where the birds go in. The first shot I got inside and those bees made a"beeline" right for us! I saw them and ran inside the door right behind us, slamming it before my brother could get in  I was stung on the throat several times, the only place unprotected...My brother had to run around to the back door and was not stung once 
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I got hit times while on a chicken coup roof. Bastards Also, one time while driving a truck with my step brother in the passenger seat something hit me in the chest. I was wearing a sleeveless t-shirt with the collar cut out. I thought nothing of it. Thirty seconds later the yellowjacket came out of its stupor caused by the impact and went to town. My step brother thought I went crazy as I slammed on the breaks and was hitting myself in the stomach. The yellowjacket had hit me just above where the collar had been cut off and fell down my shirt. I actually killed it by finally pinching it to death once I got the truck stopped. |
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I just got done destroying a nest. A BIG one. It was in the vacant metal mail box next to mine. I grabbed a can of WD-40, a lighter, yelled "Fire in the Hole!!"(for my own personal amusement), and the problem was solved. ETA: Torching yellow jacket nests let off THICK Black smoke and smell like burning plastic! |
Get some Wasp spray in an aerosol can and douse the nest at night. I had one over the door to my apartment last summer and that was what I did. It was fun watching the little fuckers twitch. As for the original post, I have a similar story. When I was 9 I was over at a buddy's house. He had this really long haired cat that would hunt in the field behind their house. We were in the backyard playing when the cat jumped the fence back into the yard and my buddy grabbed the cat and brought it over. Just then several yellow jackets came out of the cat's hair and we both were stung several times. |
Yellow Jackets. Soapy wayter kills them.. |
Those in the pic are just Paper Wasps. They are not nearly as aggressive as yellow jackets. (pic below) 
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