It was a headline writer's wet dream...12 million bees turned lose on the interstate near Sacra- mento, California. What a tasty story, editors swarm around opportunities like this, as it's a honey of an opportunity to take the sting out of using too many bad puns...You get the idea. CNN went for "Now, that stings!" and Colorado's Channel 9 News lead with "'Bee-lieve' it."
My favorite part of the story was that the local paper covering the event is The Sacramento Bee. Their not so sweet headline?
Truckload of bees topples, closes Hwy. 99 ramp at Florin RoadAnd that for the writer who led with "Things were really humming Sunday at Florin Road and Highway 99."
Better to go with the more sensational "Hundreds of thousands die in truck wreck" referring to the estimated dead bee count. After all, shouldn't we count bee deaths as well as human deaths? Or is that another story?
1 comment:
Should have read "Killer Bees Swarm Freeway, Thousands Killed"
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