Truck driver Louis Holst and his wife Tammie were transporting 460 bee hives from South Dakota on Sunday when they reached a sharp bend in a construction zone on Interstate 15 in southern Utah which caused their trailer to flip and releasing the bees.

The accident stirred up 25 million bees which were headed from Adee Honey Farms in Bruce, S.D., to a farm near Bakersfield, Calif.

Holst said he was forced to rip off his shirt and swat at the air to keep bees away from himself while his wife ran away:

“We just started swinging our clothes,” he said. “They stung her all up and down her neck.”

The truck driver said of rescue crews:

“First responders came and drug me and my wife through the front window,” and  ”Then we panicked.”

After the accident I-15 near St. George was closed for several hours while beekeepers wrangled the bees back into their hives, unfortunately most of the bees died or disappeared after the crash.

Holst and his wife were stung approximately 12 times each while at least two first responders were also stung.

According to Holst the trip carried $116,000 in bees, the last of 160 truckloads that were carrying nearly 4 billion bees.

When asked by the Associated Press if he’ll ever haul bees again Holst said:

“Well my wife’s looking at me right now, so I’ll say no.”

Do you think bees should be better secured when being moved for winter migratory purposes?

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I realize that there are guys out there who love nothing better than to do all kinds of things to their trucks to make the da boss but I think this might be overdoing it just a tad.

Chris Lentz has been wanting to do this since he was a kid. The idea of hooking up a jet engine to a pick-up truck though seems to be a little on the extreme side if you ask me. But then Chris didn’t ask me and as a result he is the proud owner of a Ford F-150 with a Czech built Motorlet M-701 turbojet bolted to its bed.

To install the jet in the truck, Lentz fabricated a sturdy mounting stand, a twenty-gallon kerosene tank, and a control console from aluminum and stainless steel. His decorative touches include a red, white, and blue nose cone and a 2700 HP badge (not divulged is the 516-mph velocity needed to achieve that power level).

To light the burner, the pilot advances a red fuel lever and a blue throttle control while operating a two-stage electric starter. There are snapping sounds as ignitors fire in the combustion chambers followed by a muffled explosion and a whine not unlike a 737 taxiing past the lowered tailgate. Viewing the procedure from the rear of the truck reveals a bright orange ball of flame accompanying the muffled explosion upon ignition. With the jet idling at 3500 rpm and during full-throttle acceleration, there are waves of heat but no external flames.

Source: Automobile Mag :: Jet-Powered 2005 Ford F-150 STX

And just so you don’t think I’m making this up here’s a short video of the truck.

hat tip to Geekologie

And you thought your truck was all the snitz is a post from: The Inquisitr

At the end of this video it notes the truck was banned from being offered for sale in Europe. We say simply ZOMG.

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