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My wip weawy hurts, wabbit

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >I killed the bee by crushing it between my head and my helmet as I > >smashed/forced it onto my head with my right hand, while using my left to > >grab da bars and diving my bike to the right.  Not a scratch nor sting. > >Yep, Mike V woulda been pissed.  Killed a bee.  Damn biker scum. > I don’t see how you can you joke about such a serious thing!  That bee > would have been responsible for pollinating dozens if not hundreds of > flowers and trees and plants.  You put a gash in the ecosystem which will > take the take earth decades from which to recover. > How could you…..? > Anna >Your right, your right. >I hereby give Anna, law student in Colorado, the right to collect >my life, in exchange for the suffering of the third planet, at >anytime she deems it fit.   >(small print on) Please include $44.23 for shipping and handling, >and three proof of purchase seals.  (small print off) >Flailer >"the" biker scum

Yeh, I don’t recall any Shakespeare quote about (paraphreasing) "…first thing is we kill all the bikers….."  I guess from some perspectives, bees and lawyers are preferable, although I can’t wait til some thread appears about someone running into a lawyer at high speed; hell think of how many showers you’d have to take til you started feeling clean again. Wes (my lip doesn’t hurt anymore at all)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I killed the bee by crushing it between my head and my helmet as I >smashed/forced it onto my head with my right hand, while using my left to >grab da bars and diving my bike to the right.  Not a scratch nor sting. >Yep, Mike V woulda been pissed.  Killed a bee.  Damn biker scum. >I don’t see how you can you joke about such a serious thing!  That bee >would have been responsible for pollinating dozens if not hundreds of >flowers and trees and plants.  You put a gash in the ecosystem which will >take the take earth decades from which to recover. >How could you…..? >Anna >I write:

Yeh, flailer really should’ve let the Ford pickup take him out altogether, cause probably his (future) kid won’t find the cure for Wes

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>I killed the bee by crushing it between my head and my helmet as I >smashed/forced it onto my head with my right hand, while using my left to >grab da bars and diving my bike to the right.  Not a scratch nor sting. >Yep, Mike V woulda been pissed.  Killed a bee.  Damn biker scum.

I don’t see how you can you joke about such a serious thing!  That bee would have been responsible for pollinating dozens if not hundreds of flowers and trees and plants.  You put a gash in the ecosystem which will take the take earth decades from which to recover. How could you…..? Anna

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> >I killed the bee by crushing it between my head and my helmet as I >smashed/forced it onto my head with my right hand, while using my left to >grab da bars and diving my bike to the right.  Not a scratch nor sting. >Yep, Mike V woulda been pissed.  Killed a bee.  Damn biker scum. > I don’t see how you can you joke about such a serious thing!  That bee > would have been responsible for pollinating dozens if not hundreds of > flowers and trees and plants.  You put a gash in the ecosystem which will > take the take earth decades from which to recover. > How could you…..? > Anna

Your right, your right. I hereby give Anna, law student in Colorado, the right to collect my life, in exchange for the suffering of the third planet, at anytime she deems it fit.   (small print on) Please include $44.23 for shipping and handling, and three proof of purchase seals.  (small print off) Flailer "the" biker scum

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Caught one, without being stung(!), ‘tween eyeball and glasses. Another time, I drove thru a swarm in an old (real) LandRover.  Ventilators were simple flaps at the bottom of the windscreen and very effective bee scoops.  Would have made a good cartoon! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip came > together in a grand cosmic event. > The thing hit just in the right spot to get into my mouth, and I swear > got a stinger into me before I could spit it out.

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> ouch.  during my last race I had two wasps fly down my jersey at the > same time (hey, it was hot, so i unzipped it).  i was stung 6 times on > my stomach and lower chest.  it didn’t really start hurting until > after the race (another 30 mins of riding).  popped two dimeatap (sp?) > and an aspirin.

Ouch is right.  A similar thing happened to me.  I was at about mile 80 of the Savage Century (a well-named sadistic ride through the hilliest roads in eastern PA), and running on fumes.  I was in front of a small paceline, and missed the left turn marking on the road (which I’ll blame on the incredible speed and poor marking rather than lack of oxygen). Everyone else made the turn, and I was cranking (relative term by that time) to reel them in.  About 100 yards shy of the back rider, and on an uphill (naturally!) a wasp flew in my open jersey and got me 4 or 5 times across my chest.  I wondered what the stings would do to me with my heart rate already on redline, so I backed down and watched the paceline crawl off into the distance.  *sob*  I did finish the ride in pretty good time, but then again, I don’t seem to have much of a reaction to most stings and bites. Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles

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Mine is a short story (true story) more about the phemomenon of a series of things adding up til……. ya die. While riding in Moab, on pavement, for a couple miles, on the way back from a dash around slick rock, hotter than snot, I sit up and remove my helmet on the curvie dwnhill.  Just then a bee hits and sticks in my hair. I can hear it buzz’n, and am kinda worried/distracted.  My hands are full of helmet, hands off the bars while the bike is rolling faster n faster; Shit….here comes the corner…..shift da butt….steering without the hands…..Yea, I can make this corner. SHIT….here comes a car…No, it a big, older beat-to-snot 1 ton Ford in da middle of the road.  I’m going to die or at least crash big time. I killed the bee by crushing it between my head and my helmet as I smashed/forced it onto my head with my right hand, while using my left to grab da bars and diving my bike to the right.  Not a scratch nor sting. Yep, Mike V woulda been pissed.  Killed a bee.  Damn biker scum. Flailer   aka biker scum

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: I figured I’d head back home, since it was getting dark, so I dropped : out of the woods and took some pavement downhill to save some time.   : I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip came : together in a grand cosmic event. : The thing hit just in the right spot to get into my mouth, and I swear : got a stinger into me before I could spit it out. : The lip started puffing up real good in a short time, but I had about : 35 minutes riding to get home (mostly off road at this point). : By the time I got home and looked in the mirror, I looked like Mick : Jagger lip.   : Dropped three Benadryl’s & figure I’ll call myself in the morning. : I wear helmet & glasses, maybe I’ll try a welding mask next; or maybe : just stay off pavement altogether. : xoxoxo, Elmer ouch.  during my last race I had two wasps fly down my jersey at the same time (hey, it was hot, so i unzipped it).  i was stung 6 times on my stomach and lower chest.  it didn’t really start hurting until after the race (another 30 mins of riding).  popped two dimeatap (sp?) and an aspirin. justen

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> > I figured I’d head back home, since it was getting dark, so I dropped > out of the woods and took some pavement downhill to save some time. > I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip came > together in a grand cosmic event.

You have my sympathy- I know how phenomenally painful that is. I got stung in *exactly* the same spot- lower lip- last summer. Descending a super-smooth singletrack, lined with flowers (and hence bees) at close to 20mph. Felt the stinger sink in, and then almost crashed as the throb of the venom hit like a second later. I’d been stung plenty of times, but the pain of the venom in the lip and lower jaw was almost unbelievable… Fortunately, though it is a popular trail, it was near dusk and I was the last rider down, so I was able to whimper, moan and curse while clutching my jaw without anyone seeing/hearing me for about 10 minutes till the pain subsided enough to ride down. -Alex Obbard Salt Lake City

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> I figured I’d head back home, since it was getting dark, so I dropped > out of the woods and took some pavement downhill to save some time.   > I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip came > together in a grand cosmic event.

Hey – same thing happened to me two weeks ago.  I was riding on a trail, had to take a section of road to get to the next section of rideable trail, (had to leave it cause the next section was open only for hiking). I was on this rough pavement section – heading down a steep hill at 35 mph when WHACK! A bee (or one of it’s cousins: wasp, hornet, yellow jacket? who knows) hits me right below my left eye (no glasses on).  It stuck to my face for an instant – I swear I could feel it’s little feet gripping on – then within about half a second – zingo – it stung me!   Well, I couldn’t take my hands off the bars when it first hit me due to my speed and the irregular pavement, but once it stung me – I somehow instantly managed to do so and wiped the little bugger off my face. I’m quite allergic to bees and used to carry a epi-pen and benedril with me but it’s been such a long time since I got stung – I neglected to take it with me.  Well, I created my own adreneline as I sped as fast as I possibly could to the nearest store – bought some benedril, took 3, bought a bag of ice, put it on my eye.  Then biked back on the roads holding an ice cube to my eye in one hand with the bag of ice in the other dangling from my handlebars. Everything seemed to work quite well.  The last time I was stung, I didn’t do anything and ended up in the hospital when I started wheezing . Taking 3 benedrils really did the trick and I even slept well – real well that afternoon. I kept taking benedril for the next several days. The day after I was stung, I went out for a 6 mile run and my eye – which was only slightly swollen before – BLEW UP! Yep – talk about a delayed reaction – 30 hours after the initial sting – my face swelled up and I looked alot uglier than normal. It is funny how I never seem to get stung in the woods whereas I always seem to be running into bees on the road – and they really like to fly in my car – I wish the damn bugs would quite playing in the road. > xoxoxo, Elmer

I wasn’t winking at you, Bwad.

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I had the same experience twice, though not as painful as your though. It’s making me think twice about working out in nature with a loose t-shirt. In both times the bee manage to get into my shirt and sting me before I got it out.

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> [snip] > I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip > came together in a grand cosmic event. > The thing hit just in the right spot to get into my mouth, and I > swear got a stinger into me before I could spit it out.

Yep… been there, done that.  Damn thing got me on the tongue though, and it was definitely a bee ‘cos they have this nasty habit of leaving the stinger in place (the only satisfaction you’re going to get is that the thing ripped its own guts out doing that to you…).  Now of course squeezing the sting is the worst thing to do, ‘cos it just pushes more into _you_… on the other hand, you try to get the thing out _without_ doing this! > The lip started puffing up real good in a short time, but I had about > 35 minutes riding to get home (mostly off road at this point). > [snip]

Luckily my tongue didn’t seem to react at all (apart from hurting like buggery).  However, I was rather disappointed with the lack of sympathy when I got home and had to spend 5 minutes with my tongue hanging out while my nearest and dearest pulled the remaining bits of sting out using tweezers! I’ve been slightly more cautious about letting my mouth hang open as I gasp for air these days! Nick.

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I figured I’d head back home, since it was getting dark, so I dropped out of the woods and took some pavement downhill to save some time.   I was clipping along real nice, when this (bee??) and my lower lip came together in a grand cosmic event. The thing hit just in the right spot to get into my mouth, and I swear got a stinger into me before I could spit it out. The lip started puffing up real good in a short time, but I had about 35 minutes riding to get home (mostly off road at this point). By the time I got home and looked in the mirror, I looked like Mick Jagger lip.   Dropped three Benadryl’s & figure I’ll call myself in the morning. I wear helmet & glasses, maybe I’ll try a welding mask next; or maybe just stay off pavement altogether. xoxoxo, Elmer

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