Driver crashes after bee flies into mouth while

[BERIGAN]

Driver crashes after bee flies into mouth

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAYS CREEK, Ore. -- A Winston man told police he crashed his car after a bee flew into his mouth while he was singing along with Justin Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body" on the radio.

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A Douglas County sheriff's spokeswoman said John L. Nunes, 19, was trying to get rid of the bee or yellow jacket when his car hit a tree.

"I kind of panicked and went off the road," Nunes said yesterday.

He was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg.

"I had to get a stitch in my tongue, and I got a gash on my left ankle," Nunes said. The tongue injury was from his teeth, not the bee, he said.

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[Noj]

I can hear the bee's thoughts: "What is that horrendously evil sound? PROTECT THE QUEEN!!!!"

[BERIGAN]

I can hear the bee's thoughts: "What is that horrendously evil sound? PROTECT THE QUEEN!!!!"

[Jazzmoose]

Reminds me of a favorite book from my youth, Wasp, by Eric Frank Russell. Good stuff. And completely off the subject...

[connoisseur series500]

That's why you should listen to jazz in the car: no vocals. Bees can't find their way into people's mouths while they're humming.

[maren]

...jazz in the car: no vocals. 

Are you trying to pick a fight with Bev Stapleton? He has lovely manners, but he just might get his dander up in defense of jazz vocals!

[Jim Alfredson]

I'm surprised he's not suing. "Man, his hooks are so catchy... it wasn't my fault!"