sunday my neighbor brought his tractor over to do a little work id asked him to do. i had some brush and stuff piled up in the edge of the yard and i wanted him to push it into the woods. no problem he said, as his tractor has a bucket on the front. he made one push and backed up to make another. i was standing up by the beast, propped on it, watching. he made the second pass when suddenly he started hollering, throwed his tractor in reverse, and backed back away from the brush, jumped off and started running across the yard, jerking his clothes off and yelling. hed just scrapped the blade across a big, and i mean a big, yellow jacket nest. them vicious little monsters was swarming around him like flies on fresh crap. time he got to me all he had on was his fruit of the looms. now ed is a big feller and i think he looks a lot better with his pants on than in his briefs. . two of his boys was there, laughing and i told him i know it aint funny to you ed, but i declare that was some funny stuff as he was gathering up his clothes scattered across the yard.. . they got him 8-10 times, the worst one being the one that got under his briefs, hammering on his gonads. . the jackets was flyin everywhere, but they seemed mad at ed and nobody else. i told him when it got dark id pour some gas on them . we walked down there to get a look at the nest from a distance, and the top of it was barely visible above the ground, with thousands of yellow jackets swarming around, looking for someone to blame their prpblems on. we kept our distance and backed away. he left and said hed be back later to finish the job. that night after it got dark i went down there with a can of gas and started pourning it on the nest when one of them little devils popped me twice on my belly. they had got so mad, they was still swarming after dark. i havent told ed yet i got stung twice so when i tell him he can pay me back for laughing first. now he gets the last laugh.

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Been there, done that! Those are some mean little devils when you get them riled up. Funny story as long as it wasn't me.

A few years ago I was wading into some tall grass with my string trimmer when I hit one of them nests. All of a sudden I had 6 of the critters on my hand and a bunch on my face. They definitly know how to show you they are pissed off

I was using my box blade in the edge of the woods a few years ago...and was pushing up a small stump...and as I was pulling away..I glanced back and though "that is a weird looking cloud of dust" I had bumped a yellow jackets nest that was in the stump hole. It was pretty wild there for a few minutes.

Another time, my coon dog was treed on the side of a hill during the summer. I made my way to her...and yellow jackets were swarming around her...one would sting her and she would wimper...but stayed on the tree...called her to me and we got out of there.

Those little yellow jackets are rough to be around.

I hate to think of the nests I been in.....got into two in a row one day....got into one, run away from it, and finally got stopped only to be standing on another.....ran away from it, stopped and there was another nest....luckily we stopped short of it and didnt get into them. Used to delineate wetlands and streams for a living and them things love the edge of a wetland or creek bank.


poppop treed in a tree with hornets in it more than once. Idk what it is that gets them riled up since they nested so high, but I know of atleast three trees that Ive walked away from atleast 300yds, in the dark. Twice was the big japanese/european hornets, whatever theyre called, look like a yeller jacket on steriods, and the other was white faced hornets like what makes a paper nests.......luckily no stings from either, but they sure swarm to the lights.

Rango, We've never met that I know of....but I wish I was a fly on the wall and could hold a video camera. I'd make millikons. Thanks for the laughs.

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you guys a pouring gas on some FINE bream bait !
keep'em alive, handle carefully while putting on the hook.

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we'll save em all for you

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Gotta go.......FISH ON !!
I only fish on days that end in"Y"

That woulda sent me to the hospital....I'm allergic! You can bet that I'm pretty good spotting red wasps nests on the water and my feet move at the first sight of something flying around my head on land.

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Was down at the local marina one day.....stepped out back into one of the open sided boat sheds and to relieve myself.....got the ole, well young, fella whipped out and just had started doing my buisness...evidently i had started peein on a nest on a board leaned up against the wall...red wasp got me on the lip.......well the stream went dry and i took off to running out into the parking lot at the boat ramp hollering and cussing.......forgetting that I left something out.....figured WTH and finished peeing in the parking lot in the open for all to see at that point, I werent going back in there to chance something worse happening lol. (bathroom had somebody in it with a major bowel disorder )