Attack of the Mostly Harmless and Oft-Misunderstood Not-So-Killer Bees!

It sounded like the plot to a cheesy 70s horror flick: hidden deep inside an old abandoned industrial compound, a massive army of ancient deadly killer bees waited patiently for decades, until that fateful day when four lost teenagers stumbled upon the hive ... and unleashed the greatest terror the world has ever known!

So we did in fact copy most of that from a cheesy 70s horror flick, but at least some of it was based on true events. Namely, the 80,000 Italian bees they found in in Round Rock this week.

It seems that they'd been allowed to inhabit the long-defunct grocery story for years. Just how big of a honeycomb would you need to accomodate eighty-thousand of your loved ones? From News8Austin's measurements, it was almost 8 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

But was, in this case, is the keyword. Yesterday, unwilling to allow these beatnik squatters to maintain their unlawful residence (and for safety reasons, but regulations are for chumps says we!), the owners of the building called in a death squad to wipe them out. We'd like to imagine the bees putting up a valiant fight, but without the aide of rogue gamma rays or mad scientists, the ending is all too predictable.

We love the owner's schoolgirl response, upon learning just how many bees there were (liberally mis-punctuated for dramatic flair):

"Oh my God. That many? Oh. My. God. Oh, wow. That's a *lot* of bees."