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Half way through tonights ride I rode into a wasp/ bee, who thanked me by stinging my bottom lip.
It was tricky to pull the bugger out at speed with gloves on, and I think the people I was passing at the time wondered why I was flapping about.
I carried on, it's only swollen a little bit now but it's not something I want to repeat in a hurry!
It was tricky to pull the bugger out at speed with gloves on, and I think the people I was passing at the time wondered why I was flapping about.
I carried on, it's only swollen a little bit now but it's not something I want to repeat in a hurry!
Lord Croker said:
My brother recently told me about a guy who got one inside his motorbike helmet...
My housemate in Spain had exactly that. He'd bought a moped to use while we were out there, and had an open face helmet. I was driving along the road behind him when he suddenly started wobbling around, then stuffed the moped (at a slow speed) into the verge and started running around in circles pawing at his helmet!The wasp got in, couldn't get out and stung him 7 times before he got his helmet off.
Pah. I got stung by 19 - now get that 19 hornets whilst riding down a dried up river bank. Docs said I was lucky. I didn't agree.
Also a mate of mine, whilst on his paper round as a sprog, rode into a swarm of bees whilst wearing a zipped-up snorkel. His whole head was plastered in stings.
Also a mate of mine, whilst on his paper round as a sprog, rode into a swarm of bees whilst wearing a zipped-up snorkel. His whole head was plastered in stings.
Sorry mate but:
A related story however to make you feel less bad...
I was with a group of friends on a trail we loved that was a lovely flowing singletrack. We decided we wanted a 'bus stop' in the trail (where you turn off left, go up the trail, and then turn right back onto it again).
We proceeded to find a spot, and started stamping down the stinging nettles that were in the way.
However, muggins here put his foot through an unseen wasps nest...!
A dark cloud of angry buzziness suurounding me, my mates f
ked off pronto on their bikes, and I was left running down the trail being stung by hundreds of pissed wasps; I ran further down the trail, removing clothes, gloves and helmet etc as I ran to try and get the stingy bds out and slowly but surely as I ran down the trail the stinging lessened and I eventually arrived in the field where my mates stopped to them roaring with laughter as a near naked blotchy and lumpy 18 year old sprinted towards them in just his pants...
Ever since then I've had an absolutely irrational fear of the useless things.
The trail was named in my honour as Bee Sting trail (Wasp Sting didn't have the same ring to it)...
A related story however to make you feel less bad...
I was with a group of friends on a trail we loved that was a lovely flowing singletrack. We decided we wanted a 'bus stop' in the trail (where you turn off left, go up the trail, and then turn right back onto it again).
We proceeded to find a spot, and started stamping down the stinging nettles that were in the way.
However, muggins here put his foot through an unseen wasps nest...!
A dark cloud of angry buzziness suurounding me, my mates f
ked off pronto on their bikes, and I was left running down the trail being stung by hundreds of pissed wasps; I ran further down the trail, removing clothes, gloves and helmet etc as I ran to try and get the stingy bds out and slowly but surely as I ran down the trail the stinging lessened and I eventually arrived in the field where my mates stopped to them roaring with laughter as a near naked blotchy and lumpy 18 year old sprinted towards them in just his pants...Ever since then I've had an absolutely irrational fear of the useless things.
The trail was named in my honour as Bee Sting trail (Wasp Sting didn't have the same ring to it)...
Garlick said:
Damn, my story seems so lightweight
I wish I had lied slightly now and said that as a result of the sting I fell into a bush that contained a python and I only just managed to escape from its clutches. Or something.
I left the python bit out of mine cos I thought it may seem far fetched!!!!I wish I had lied slightly now and said that as a result of the sting I fell into a bush that contained a python and I only just managed to escape from its clutches. Or something.
The G/f's colleague at the hospital spent a little while in A&E this weekend, her fella had somehow managed to let a wasp fly into his ear!!!!
Apparently it took 30 minutes from the wasps entry before they got him to the hospital, being as he had a live wasp in his ear and she's known at the hospital they were seen instantly. First they tried to drown it, then tried oil to float it up. After much ENT advice from specialists at Bristol the consultant decided enough was enough and reached for the tweezers, they got it out eventually.
The thing was massive apparently, and by all accounts you've never a rugby playing ex-marine look in such a state! I've never been stug on my ear drum, but i can;t imagine it being a pleasant experience.
Apologies if I've somewhat belittled your story garlick, but the story turned my stomach when I heard it the other day!
Apparently it took 30 minutes from the wasps entry before they got him to the hospital, being as he had a live wasp in his ear and she's known at the hospital they were seen instantly. First they tried to drown it, then tried oil to float it up. After much ENT advice from specialists at Bristol the consultant decided enough was enough and reached for the tweezers, they got it out eventually.
The thing was massive apparently, and by all accounts you've never a rugby playing ex-marine look in such a state! I've never been stug on my ear drum, but i can;t imagine it being a pleasant experience.
Apologies if I've somewhat belittled your story garlick, but the story turned my stomach when I heard it the other day!
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