STUNG 20,000 TIMES BY KILLER BEES!
Enraged insects blanket Ohio tree trimmer who is lucky to survive
OHIO tree trimmer Austin Bellamy was left comatose and fighting for his life after being stung over 20,000 times by a savage, unrelenting swarm of African killer bees!
As vile venom coursed through his body, Austin’s features exploded beyond recognition and he struggled to breathe. An emergency team airlifted the terrified 20-yearold to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was placed in a medically induced coma and put on a ventilator.
But within a week, Austin awoke and is now expected to make a full recovery! But things were touch and go.
According to relatives, Austin accidently slashed open the bees’ nest while pruning a lemon tree in Ripley, releasing a gigantic dark cloud of enraged insects — which immediately attacked!
His grandmother Phyllis Edwards saw it all and recalls, “He was hollering, ‘Help! Help me! Help!’ ” as thousands of bugs flew in for the kill.
Bellamy’s mom, Shawna Carter, says her bee-covered son “looked like he had a black blanket on his head down to his neck, down to his arms!”
Says Edwards, “I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin. But I couldn’t get to him.”
Firefighters rescued Bellamy from his perilous perch, and he was rushed to the hospital.
But Carter says while her screaming son was being brutalized by the bees he actually ingested dozens of the critters — and it took doctors days to suction them all out of his body!
African killer bees are a mix of East African lowland honeybees and more tame Brazilian varieties. First identified in South America in the 1950s, the hellish hybrids invaded the U.S. three decades later!
Individually, their sting isn’t more potent than those of typical honeybees, but they’re notorious for aggressive behavior — and have been known to chase people for more than a quarter of a mile and attack en masse!
Carter says her son is “still very wobbly” — but “the swelling has gone down a whole heck of a lot!”