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The Wasp

Bees and wasps, used for bad instead of good.

I always loved the song WASP, on the Doors last album. It's one of the first uses of electronic drums.

Bees and wasps used in movies I always like, although find the scenes usually unrealistic. In "Election," when one stung Mathew Broderick on the eyelid...that was great. But, when Bill Murray was attacked by bees, when his young rival put them in his office...you wonder how realistic something like that is. I mean, Murray would see the bees, and walk out without being stung, I'm sure.

I remember as a kid, playing football in the street with some friends. A swarm of bees were creating a hive on a porch and my stepdad, a letter carrier, walked within a few inches of them, to deliver the mail. Wow...thru sleet, snow, rain, and bee swarms, I thought. But, as he said to us then, "If you don't bother them, they won't bother you."

I heard a story last week about a woman in Modesto, who is accused of trying to kill her husband with a soda can full of wasps. She pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon.

She left the can in her estranged husband's truck. Oh, it should be noted, her husband is deathly allergic to wasp stings. I'm wondering why the story didn't say HOW she got the wasps in there. As a kid, I used to stick a chop stick into a paper wasps nest in my garage. One would climb onto it, and I'd put it in a jar and close the lid. That worked well (until I finally got stung when one walked up the chopstick).

And, to make sure the job got done, she also hired a hit man to finish things off. I'm not sure if he was strapped with a gun...or a giant stinger on his butt.

Another odd thing about this...the guy learned of the plot while watching the Super Bowl with friends. One man told him that she offered $600 to kill him.

I've never ordered a hit. But, if I was...I would make sure I didn't ask people that would go tell the possible victim.

And if I was gonna go the animal route, screw insects. I'm getting a black mamba, like they used in that Tarantino movie. Or, I'd fill their swimming pool with piranha.

Sure, I'd have to go to South America to get some. But I could make a fun trip out of it.

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I always loved the song WASP, on the Doors last album. It's one of the first uses of electronic drums.

Bees and wasps used in movies I always like, although find the scenes usually unrealistic. In "Election," when one stung Mathew Broderick on the eyelid...that was great. But, when Bill Murray was attacked by bees, when his young rival put them in his office...you wonder how realistic something like that is. I mean, Murray would see the bees, and walk out without being stung, I'm sure.

I remember as a kid, playing football in the street with some friends. A swarm of bees were creating a hive on a porch and my stepdad, a letter carrier, walked within a few inches of them, to deliver the mail. Wow...thru sleet, snow, rain, and bee swarms, I thought. But, as he said to us then, "If you don't bother them, they won't bother you."

I heard a story last week about a woman in Modesto, who is accused of trying to kill her husband with a soda can full of wasps. She pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon.

She left the can in her estranged husband's truck. Oh, it should be noted, her husband is deathly allergic to wasp stings. I'm wondering why the story didn't say HOW she got the wasps in there. As a kid, I used to stick a chop stick into a paper wasps nest in my garage. One would climb onto it, and I'd put it in a jar and close the lid. That worked well (until I finally got stung when one walked up the chopstick).

And, to make sure the job got done, she also hired a hit man to finish things off. I'm not sure if he was strapped with a gun...or a giant stinger on his butt.

Another odd thing about this...the guy learned of the plot while watching the Super Bowl with friends. One man told him that she offered $600 to kill him.

I've never ordered a hit. But, if I was...I would make sure I didn't ask people that would go tell the possible victim.

And if I was gonna go the animal route, screw insects. I'm getting a black mamba, like they used in that Tarantino movie. Or, I'd fill their swimming pool with piranha.

Sure, I'd have to go to South America to get some. But I could make a fun trip out of it.

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