Brought to you today... by the letter "B"

[prometheus578]

Test ridin' some Ninja somethingorother today. Hunched over... leanin' on the handlebars. Felt something hit me in the neck and slide down into that air scoop of a T shirt I was wearing.
"Ok, tough-guy... do your worst!"
Wham!
"Is that the best you can do, Mr. Bee?"
Wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham!

Must have been his cousin, Mr. Wasp.
Anybody ever get more than eight?

[Targetman]

Three for me. The ONE time I decided not to wear my gloves, one went up the sleeve of my jacket in the first mile....
Never did find find him either.
Three quick stings in the armpit, and he was gone like a fart in the wind.

[Czekus21]

Had that happen to me once but only once. Boy that ol' Honda I was on came to a stop reeaallll quick.

[John]

Bummer Prom

I hope you aren't allergic. I hit a bee or something like that once, I really didn't see it, but I sure as hell felt it. It was right on the collar bone, and it swolled up something fierce. I was on my way to work, so when I got there I went to the company medical dept, and the nurse made a paste of Adolph's meat tenderizer and water to draw the stinger and venom out. She smeared it on a bandage, and placed it on the sting. It worked really well.

[JWSanders]

Stuck my hand in a camera housing 30ft up in the air once. Got 5 in just a second or so. Ever seen a guy do a ladder slide from 30ft up? It ain't pretty

Took 3 cigarettes worth of tobacco to soak up all the poison, but enough got in to get me pretty bad. Hand swelled up to grapefruit sized. I'm slighty allergic to the little bastards. Still had to go back up there, too. Many red wasps died that day

Can't remember where I learned that from, but it seems to work pretty well. Will have to remember the meat tenderizer trick.

8 hits!! I feel for ya man, that s**t hurts like hell. Been dreading the inevitable hit I'm sure will come....

[prometheus578]

"Love me tender---izer" (Elvis)

I knew about the tenderizer for bee stings and jelly fish and such.
Got back to the shop... no ice! But as we're having an open house Saturday, the freezer was loaded with the next best thing.
Duct taped frozen hamburger patties to my chest, side and back.
Just checked, now four hours later... No swelling, soreness or redness, just eight tiny pinpricks.
Have a nice scar on the side o' me melon, where a centipede stung me in the temple.("Prom, what were you doing in a temple?")
Was awakened by a blinding flash of white light, and had a four hour headache that would have killed a lesser man.

[Just In Case]

The old man had a bee go up his short's leg whilst riding one day... lucky for mum it was the outside of his leg For you young ones, this was back in the day when shorts didn't finish at the ankle

A neighbour told me about back in the day when he was riding his Norton, he collected a bumblebee in his chest at 80mph. Reckons it winded him and almost made him have an off

What's the story about using tobacco?

David

[81xsproject]

I got hit 3 times with a wasp on a group ride last year. Went right down the front of my shirt. I must have looked pretty funny beating on my chest like Tarzan

The that summer my father in law told me that bees turn stinger first right before they get hit. I didn't believe him. Then at about 70mph I got one right in the adams apple. Man that one actually hurt.

[John]

Tobacco

My ex's aunt had told us about tobacco. I was living in Ky (the state you dirty mined ol' coots) at the time, and my 5 yo son had stepped on a ground hornets nest in the back yard. She asked if we had any chewing tobacco in the house. Although I was in Ky, I am not a redneck, so I didn't have any, and my ex was fresh out. She had me chew up and slobber all over some cigarette tobacco.When it was all gooey and slimey, she put it on a guaze (?) bandage and taped it to his foot. With in an hour, the swelling wad gone. I don't know what substance in the tobacco draws the venom and stinger out, but it does work.

[Wildkat]

I think it was the Shakespeare that drew him to you

Apparently he was a cultured wasp...

PETRUCHIO
Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.

KATHARINA
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

PETRUCHIO
My remedy is then, to pluck it out.

KATHARINA
Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,

PETRUCHIO
Who knows not where a wasp does
wear his sting? In his tail.

KATHARINA
In his tongue.

PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?

KATHARINA
Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.

PETRUCHIO
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again

Oh wait... they were speaking of something else


Glad you survived the encounter to tell the tale of the wasp's tail

Got one in my shirt (which was tucked in) while on a ride... I can only imagine what the wasp was thinking... but I CERTAINLY know what I was thinking. $#@*!

[Lamric]

Duct taped frozen hamburger patties to my chest, side and back.

[LoHo]

Once while backpacking I got one up my shorts and got three stings on poor willie. The local medico offered me a salve that would knock out the pain and cut the swelling. I kind of liked the swelling, so I skipped the meds...still hurts, too...

[trbig]

Not trying to one-up anyone, and has nothing to do with riding, but those little yellow bas^%$ds just about did me in when I was 16. Stung 48 times.. that we knew of. When I finally made it to the doc (Lived out in the country) he said another 5-10 minutes, I wouldn't have needed to come. Cool thing about it was, when I got there, they loaded me up with 3 syringe fulls of epinephrine... hurt worse than anything I had ever felt... like sticking a needle in every pore of my body... but then about 15 minutes later... was like I had chugged a 5th of whiskey. Went out of there giggling and stumbling like a sailor... lol.
Was never allergic before that, or since. Just too much at once I guess...

Many red wasps died that day

Those red wasps are the worst I have ever been stung by. Of course, I have never been stung while in a temple either...

Tod

[Pat Kelly]

It didn't havea stinger but it sure hurt

I was on the back of m brothers Honda 350 coming back from shooting our .22's in the foothils. I was holding both rifles so no hands to stabilize. This is back when helmets were not required.
We're crusing along when my brother ducks and here come a giant moth (like in "Silence of the Lambs" ). It smacks me in the forehead. I didn't fal off, I didn't drop a rifle, I couldn't see, My head hurt.
We got home and Mom freaked! Blood and gore all over my face.....and, is that a wing?

[prometheus578]

Excellent, Wildkat... How "shrew"d of you!