Charles Friel
When Phil and I were in the 8th grade we signed up with the Tulsa Police Department to collect bees that had swarmed in places where people did not want them. We were going into the honey business. One Saturday we got a call about some bees that had swarmed to the backyard of this lady’s home. We got our homemade bee gear along with big Safeway paper sacks and loaded up in my dads 56 Chevy with dad driving. When at the scene we started loading up the bees into the sacks using string to tie off the tops. We had 4 or 5 bags of really mad bees that we loaded into the trunk of the car and proceeded back to
Phil’s house. On the way there the sound from the trunk kept getting louder and louder. Upon arrival we exited the car and went to the rear of the vehicle. Now understand no one ever told us that bees could eat through paper, but they can. Dad popped.the trunk and all the bees had escaped the sacks and boy were they mad. Obviously we made a beeline out of there. No Pune intended.
Jerry Friel