Grocery Shopper Unwittingly Turns Into An Uber For Thousands Of Bees

A guy in New Mexico recently discovered that he had
unwittingly turned into an Uber for 15,000 bees.

 Happens to us all the time, right?  

You go to the grocery store, leave the window cracked open on a toasty day, come back out, load the groceries and suddenly you find the car is filled with 15,000 bees.

Wait, what?

This, at least, is what happened to a Las Cruces, New Mexico man.  Only after the man left the local Albertson's and was tooling serenely down the road when he discovered the bees. At that point, the man did the only sensible thing: He dove out of the car in the middle of traffic.

According to the Las Cruces Fire Department, firefighters arrived to find a swarm of bees inside the vehicle. In the end, the motorist, the fire department and the bees came through the ordeal fairly well.

On their Facebook page, the department said they don't normally remove bees, but they wanted to mitigate the "mid-afternoon hazard the large swarm presented in a relatively high traffic area."

Also, one of the firefighters moonlights as a beekeeper, so he was able to use his expertise to remove the bees without any real harm to anybody. 

The firefighter, Jesse Johnson, showed up with a hive kit, lemongrass oil, gloves, bee protection attire and found the bees a new home.  He used the lemongrass oil to lure the bees out of the car and into a box. He brought the bees to a site out of town where presumably, they will live happily ever after.

I don't know why the bees picked this dude's car, but I'll tell you one thing: I'm not leaving my truck window rolled down in a grocery store parking lot, every again.