This poor woman didn’t wind up getting stung nearly as many times as most of the folks who find themselves in this section, but when you get stung by a bunch of bees and your name is Honeycombe, things like quantity and severity matter a lot less than they normally would.
Caroline Honeycombe, her sister Jo Dawson and Jo’s eight-year-old daughter were attacked while walking their horses on a hilltop in St Ouen, Jersey.
She was stung more than 60 times and needed to be put on a drip after going to A&E, with her niece also requiring treatment for multiple stings around her head.
The other horses bolted in a panic, but Mrs Honeycombe’s pony, Blue, was stung around 80 times and also needed emergency treatment from a vet.
The attack happened when a beekeeper was opening hives – thought to contain around a million bees – nearby to check on the honey in the combs.
Everyone is expected to be just fine. And the beekeeper in question, Nick Faulkner, later brought the Honeycombe family a few jars of honey as an apology and also offered to cover their expenses, so it appears that things ended up about as well as a story that begins with the words swarmed by bees could have possibly ended up.
You’ve got this in your head now too, don’t you?