Bee Swarm Traps Workers in NY Game Store

NEW YORK - Thousands of bees have swarmed outside a New York City game store, trapping employees inside for hours, WABC-TV reported.

Worried employees looked out the window of the Manhattan store while talking on the phone as the bees clustered Saturday afternoon. A sign in the window warned: "Look! ... closed due to bee infestation."

Most passers-by avoided the GameStop store near Union Square, one of the city's busiest shopping areas. But Edward Albers tried to help. Dressed in regular clothes, he lured many bees into a box without getting stung.

[socomnick]

NYC = pussiest city in the US. Any other city and the guys would have gone outside and killed the bees or ignored the stinging and went home.

[Timesplitter14]

Are you high or something?

[poindat]

As radical as Socomnick is, he does have something of a point. Bees aren't terribly territorial creatures, and they aren't very aggressive either. I have a garden around back of the house, which attracts lots of bees (the large black ones, which are actually supposed to be quite aggressive). I just walk through them and haven't had any problems so far.

But yeah, if it was wasps, then I would be scared.

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

I had a similar problem outside my home a couple of years back. I put on some long sleeves, pants, and commenced to putting a smack down on all the bees. I never got stung.

Still, Gamestop better raise the amount they pay for used copies of Yar's Revenge to prevent further trouble from our pollen collecting friends.

[DrPirate]

Snick is correct.

[LJWooly]

Snick was never wrong.

[JoySticksFTW]

That's what I do to my women when they try to leave my house.

I'm like "Who said you could leave?" and then I point outside. And there they are... the bees... >:[

[Cajun Chicken]

Call Frank West! Trap the queen! Smash the jar before its too late!

[Tempist]

They were there for the sweet deals.

[matt247]

Even bees hate Gamestop

[INehalemEXI]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[XxSolid SnakexX]

RZA has some nice music that man and ghostface killah is what true rap is, not this fake a$$ soulja buy $hit they be feeding us.

[Servbot]

I was just at union square today, I missed it. :(

[Reshun]

Amazon strikes back.

[neoxdonut]

So they decide to not use the back door to get out of the store?

[Kamikaze135]

So that's out of the question.

[TheBand1t]

Bees <3 NYC but </3 GameStop.

Also, those GameStop employees are total friggin wimps.

[thisguywithhair]

So there are thousands of bees outside of the only exit to the building your in and you will just ignore them? Even though sometimes all it takes is a smell for them to swarm let alone the comotion you may make while opening the door.

[UltimateIdiot911]

You do know if you're allergic to bee sting, you can die from it but you wouldn't know if you're allergic till your stung.

[darthLegion]

they wanted to buy one of the Buzz quiz games. [: I know it was corny, but I had to.

[TheBand1t]

/rimshot

[KilZoneGeneralStrife]

News for gamers. .this is news. . . .4. . . .gamers? This affects you and me?

[i_like_ff7]

Poor people they were probably stuck inside with nothing but halo 3 to play

jk

[Timesplitter14]

That's frickin hilarious

[Kinetix]

Just cuz it don't affect you and me doesn't mean it isn't news.

[TrevorPhillips]

those bee otches

[Mr Face Creamer]

Gamestop even ripped off bees? Damn, I wonder if all the soccer moms are still buying sh!t from Gamestop.

@KillzoneGeneralStrife, it might not be important, but this is definitely better than all the droid and bot news we've been receiving.

[Kinetix]

Apparently Osama Bee Laden is trying to make a name for himself in the big city.

[free2game365]

This just in, police are reporting there's a man on top of a skyscraper ready to jump. I'm told him is possibly "ol' dirty" a member of the wu-tang clan. I'm told there is a possible connection between this "ol dirty" man and the killer bees.

[Mr Face Creamer]

Didn't that guy die like 5 years ago?

[devilhunterx]

The Pain?

[ssipmraw]

LMFAO! bubble up

[Monk3y]

I hate bees

[miasma]

I temporarily lost control of my plasmids.

[AssassinHD]

Don't feel too bad. It happens to the best of us.

[Buttons]

So I have to tell you guys something about the Cloverfield monster...

[callahan09]

Huh. I've bought a lot of games at that particular GameStop. Never would have imagined a bee infestation at Union Square. So weird! I'm glad I went to a different GameStop yesterday, would have been annoyed to go and not be able to get in.

[bigboss911]

I would have went outside and punched every bee in the face. Who is scared of bees? Now if it was flying killer horses than that's a different story. (looks over shoulder for killer horses)....

[ultimolu]

I so hate bees. :[

[ultimolu]

I so hate bees. :[

[II Necroplasm II]

double.

[ChozenWoan]

but the site has an article about a man thinking about jumping off a bridge in China. He ended up being pushed by someone passing by.... ohh the sanity just brightens my day.

Edit:
"Lai volunteered to talk Chen down but was turned away by police, Xinhua said. Lai then broke through the cordon, climbed to where Chen sat, greeted him with a handshake, then pushed."

http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

[Dead_Cell]

The best way of clearing a bee infestation is to quickly run into the swarm and start throwing karate chops whilst shouting HYAH.

[CobraKai]

Sucks to BEE them!!!

[TrevorPhillips]

BEE careful guys

[CobraKai]

That was BEE-utiful

[OtherWhiteMeat]

ebee games

[VenomCarnage89]

with these god d*mn bees, in this god d*mn store!

[SovereignSnaKe]

i totally hate bees, I'll bet Amazon had it planted outside the Store!!

[astrotriforce]

lol. Wow. That's pretty nuts. Bees are scary though . . . I wouldn't want to deal with a swarm of them. They remember you too. :P

[KrimsonKody]

I unknowingly sat on a bee (don't laugh) when I was a teen, so I know the pain a bee sting can give. Thankfully, at least I know I'm not allergic, it just burns like hell.
Although I'm not afraid of another bee sting, I do often feel bees especially gravitate towards me. Also they see a neon stream of oxygen that we breath out (that's how they follow us).
I think the GameStop was more afraid of potential/phony lawsuits, mostly. I often visit that shop, but I don't see what's all the buzz...

Also,
Who said ALL the bees are gone?

[PlayStation360]

.... not the bees!