200 bees attacked a man
They had poor beehives.
The 81-year-old Oklahoma man who survived a horrific three-hour attack by over 200 “killer bees” is lucky to be alive; the attack was so vicious that he reportedly shattered his hip while trying to flee.
“You just can’t kill ’em fast enough,” Carl Amos said to Fox of the “relentless” aerial assault that took place last Friday at his Mayville house. “I hit some of them with my hands.”
According to reports, the elder was mowing the grass when he was attacked by a swarm of more than 100 bees.
“They were going in my hair and going in my ears and in my nose, and I thought I better keep my mouth shut because those bees will be in my mouth,” the Oklahoman described. “I crunched ‘em and then they didn’t come out, so I blew and then some of them came out and then I stuck my finger in my nose and pulled them out.”
The attack was carried out by what Amos’ family thinks to be killer bees or Africanized honey bees, an invasive species brought from Brazil that strikes in much higher numbers than its European counterparts and is to blame for countless attacks and fatalities throughout the US.
He made heroic attempts to defend himself, but the barrage was too great.
According to Koco News 5, Amos would attempt to remove the bees in his ear with a tissue, only for their buzzy siblings to fly up his nose like entomological waterboarding. It was like a game of whack-a-mole, it was said.
The bee-seiged man attempted to depart the area since he felt outnumbered, but he tripped and broke his hip as a result. Amos claimed the insects continued to sting him while he was on the ground. “I heard it pop, so I thought this is not good,” he added.
Three hours had passed since the beginning of the assault before a guy from a nearby company stopped by and phoned an ambulance, perhaps sparing the victim’s life.
Amos was then taken to the emergency department at Norman Regional, where a group of medical professionals painstakingly worked to remove all the stingers.
The presiding physician, Dr. Savannah Phillips, reported that the elderly man had “over 100” stingers inside of him, with the majority of them centered on his face and hands. Dr. Phillips has never handled a case this extreme.
The patient was sent to another clinic for hip surgery after nurses removed as many as they could from the patient.
After his horrifying insect acupuncture, he is now relaxing and healing.
The family just set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to pay for Amos’ treatment and medical expenses as well as the cost of removing the bees’ nest from his house.
“After all this, he is in good spirits but it will be a long road to recovery,” his daughter Heather wrote in the description. “He will require therapy to get back on his feet.”
She said, “The bee hive will have to be removed before he can even go home.”
The patient is fortunate to be alive, according to Dr. Phillips, as being stung that many times can be fatal.
“You can have so much swelling that your airway starts to close that you’re not able to breathe on your own,” she explained. For example, “We look for things like if his voice were to change or if he wasn’t able to tolerate swallowing water.”
An allergy to bee venom is particularly dangerous since stings can cause anaphylactic shock, which can result in swelling, breathing difficulties, loss of consciousness, and even death.
Amos is happy that the good Samaritan stepped in at that precise moment. He stated, “I feel like I owe him my life.”
A Los Angeles Police Department volunteer officer was stung up to 100 times in a similarly horrifying bee assault earlier this month, causing him to fall on live television.
He was finally saved and transferred to a medical facility where he received treatment for the bee stings, fractures, and bruises.
