!@#$%^&* Wasp!!!

[Pointman1776]

ATGATT.

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Tour Master Solution WP Air Road Boots?
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Tour Master Transition Series 3 Jacket?
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Shoei RF1100 helmet?
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Total exposed surface area of skin?
About 1/4th of an inch on my neck between the helmet chin strap and the top of the mandarin collar of the Transition Jacket.

Cruising with traffic out of downtown Los Angeles last Thursday morning on the 5 fwy at 70 mph.
Lovely day, really.

Then all of a sudden...YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!

My neck is burning as a red hot ice pick is stabbed and driven into my neck.

What is happening?
PAY ATTENTION TO THE BUSTED UP 5 FWY DAMMIT! There are potholes that will make The Mighty Sarlacc jealous!

*lightbulb*

!@#$%^&* WASP!!!

Then....
YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!
AGAIN!!!

So I take my left hand and start to swat my neck while trying to keep rubber side down at 70 mph dodging all the craters and crevices on the 5 fwy and providing what must be a fascinating carnival act to all the other drivers on the freeway. (Drivers who inexplicably start to swerve and distance themselves from me -- buncha weirdo drivers - who taught THEM how to drive??? All their swerving is seriously freaking me out.)

Not quick enough.
YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!
A THIRD TIME!!!

I thought I felt him trying to crawl down the mandarin collar of my jacket. NO NO NO!!! Must end this duel now while I'm still conscious.
Just...enough...energy for... one... last... swat!

Straight to the nearest CVS to get sting ointment. My neck was swollen for three days.

You know, I have to admire the tenacity of the little guy who HARPOONED me THREE TIMES like a hyperactive vampire in an effort to take me down.

So, out of respect for our dogfight, I think I'm going to paint a wasp kill flag on the side of my Stormtrooper Speeder.

I haven't been able to talk about it, yet. No one would understand the traumatic ordeal I just went through (sniff), except you... my fellow brave FZ6R pilots.

Thanks for reading, and for your support.

I don't know when I'll be mentally and emotionally able to ride my beloved 'Speeder agai...ooooooh, look! SUCH a GORGEOUS lazy Sunday afternoon - perfect for a ride on Mulholland!

See ya!!!

 

[Fizzer6R]

a nice pic would help us laugh at your expense more

riding, sooner or later, we all get hit with something - bee, bird, deer, auto, rocks, flying road debris

 

[Cerebus]

Well told story. I grabbed for my neck at least twice while reading it.

 

[MNGreg]

LOL!!! I am soo sorry for that, but it happened to me also during my first year riding. They are not fun and it is VERY distracting while riding!! Got trapped in my jacket collar and got stings in the back of my neck.

 

[SpawnXX]

You get rep just for telling a good story. I appreciate the enthusiasm. Wasp stings suck... tbh... all stings suck! hehe. I caught one right on the lip of my visor 2 years ago. Cut the damn thing in half... looked down nearly went crosseyed because the abdomen was still wriggling around on the lip trying to sting me. :thumbup: Bravo, and sorry that you got a swollen neck out of it!

 

[Scott_Thomas]

I've been swarm stung about 3 times in my 38 years and it sucks, so I feel your pain. Last swarm attack was my last duty station in West Virginia. My roommate (Air Force) and I (Navy) went to visit the spot where he wrecked near our house after he got out of the hospital. Well we forgot a little warning from our mechanic who is also a paramedic and was at the scene. Got down to the bottom of a very steep and slick hill and found the roof from his Bronco with his Cd's still in the visor case. Cool let's grab them, when all of a sudden it sounds like someone started a chainsaw. WTF? In an instant I remembered the warning was, "watch out for the bees nest"!!! Well we got up the hill and too the road in what seemed like 20 minutes because it was so steep and slippery. I had already been stung a dozen or more times and was in uniform beating bees off me as I am running down the road with my cap. Well I finally feel like I got them all off and turn around my buddy is standing there covered in bees. He couldn't run so I had to go back and beat them off of him. Oh the pain of being stung another 20 or so times. Have I said how much I hate F'n bees!!!!
:surrender::surrender::surrender:

 

[DaIrishman]

Ouch

Ah I feel for you on that one. I lucked out today on I95 when the huge bumblebee impacted almost dead center of the visor. I'm still cleaning guts out of all the crevices and cracks.

Wasps, yellow jackets, and hornets are the absolute worst. They are just mean critters and have to have the last word, er. . . sting that is.

 

[buzzbomb]

ATGATT.

Heat Out base layers? (long pant, long sleeve, and head cap?)
Check.
Tour Master Flex Pants?
Check.
Tour Master Solution WP Air Road Boots?
Check.
Tour Master Transition Series 3 Jacket?
Check.
Scorpion SG3 Gauntlet Gloves?
Check.
Shoei RF1100 helmet?
Check.

Total exposed surface area of skin?
About 1/4th of an inch on my neck between the helmet chin strap and the top of the mandarin collar of the Transition Jacket.

Cruising with traffic out of downtown Los Angeles last Thursday morning on the 5 fwy at 70 mph.
Lovely day, really.

Then all of a sudden...YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!

My neck is burning as a red hot ice pick is stabbed and driven into my neck.

What is happening?
PAY ATTENTION TO THE BUSTED UP 5 FWY DAMMIT! There are potholes that will make The Mighty Sarlacc jealous!

*lightbulb*

!@#$%^&* WASP!!!

Then....
YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!
AGAIN!!!

So I take my left hand and start to swat my neck while trying to keep rubber side down at 70 mph dodging all the craters and crevices on the 5 fwy and providing what must be a fascinating carnival act to all the other drivers on the freeway. (Drivers who inexplicably start to swerve and distance themselves from me -- buncha weirdo drivers - who taught THEM how to drive??? All their swerving is seriously freaking me out.)

Not quick enough.
YEEEEEEOOOWWCH!!!!!
A THIRD TIME!!!

I thought I felt him trying to crawl down the mandarin collar of my jacket. NO NO NO!!! Must end this duel now while I'm still conscious.
Just...enough...energy for... one... last... swat!

Straight to the nearest CVS to get sting ointment. My neck was swollen for three days.

You know, I have to admire the tenacity of the little guy who HARPOONED me THREE TIMES like a hyperactive vampire in an effort to take me down.

So, out of respect for our dogfight, I think I'm going to paint a wasp kill flag on the side of my Stormtrooper Speeder.

I haven't been able to talk about it, yet. No one would understand the traumatic ordeal I just went through (sniff), except you... my fellow brave FZ6R pilots.

Thanks for reading, and for your support.

I don't know when I'll be mentally and emotionally able to ride my beloved 'Speeder agai...ooooooh, look! SUCH a GORGEOUS lazy Sunday afternoon - perfect for a ride on Mulholland!

See ya!!!

That. Was. AWESOME!

Very well written. I could feel your pain. I can still feel your pain. Rep on the way, Brother, rep on the way!

 

[SkyOrDie]

Bwaahaha! Sorry. BWAAHAHA! I feel your pain, though. I was hang gliding one time at Cucamonga Peak. Later I recalled that prior to launch I saw a black and red bug crawling around. Ten seconds after launching I started turning in the first thermal when ZZZZZZ I got hit by an apparent lightening bolt in the small of my back. Son of a! The pod-style harness wouldn't let me reach around to rub it or kill the beast, besides, I needed 2 hands to fly this thing. ZZZZZ I got hit again. Son of a! Now I started contemplating whether to continue to core this tasty thermal or go out and land. ZZZZZZZZ The third time convinced me to land. Unfortunately, I had a few thousand feet to burn off and it took WAY too much time. I later researched the beast and there's a type of red and black wasp where one sex has wings and the other doesn't. Those things are wicked. One crawled into my harness while I was setting up.

-Stan

 

[abyss1406]

Awww man, im sorry but i chuckled quite a bit at this. hahaha i hate when you get all gear up after washing the bike polishing the helmet, and you go for a 2 min ride down the road just to have them little bastards cream your dream machine. DEATH TO BUGS!!

 

[SpawnXX]

Funny story, on the way back from work. I had a bee hit me and crawl into the collar of my jacket and procede to make it's way down and crawl around my collar bone area underneath my inside shirt. I was only about 6 blocks or so from work, so I just unzipped my jacket low enough and kept riding till I got to work. Proceded to carefully remove my jacket, my helmet, and grab the collar of my shirt and bend it outwards... there he was.. just a buzzing and crawling around on the inside of my shirt. Proceded to give him a friendly but forceful flick on the ass and it sent him airborne, where he caught up and flew off. In the beginning when I realized he was in my jacket I thought about this thread and chuckled to myself.

 

[Timbo64]

Look at it this way, It could have been worse.

This happened to me two years ago.

My wife and I were staying at a rental cabin in the mountains. I had just stepped out of the hot tub on the rear porch and a big-*** wasp or hornet stung me on the head. The pain was so intense that it felt like I had been shot in the head. My wife got into the truck and drove like a bat out of hell to a store in town to get me some Benadryl. As soon as she left, I started to break out and itch like hell. I jumped in the shower and stood under the cold water.

When she returned about 15 minutes later, I was a bloody mess on the bathroom floor with the shower curtain wrapped around me. I had gone into Anaphylactic Shock in the shower, passed out, feel out of the shower unconscious, and hit the back of my head on the edge of the sink's wood countertop splitting it wide open. Man, head wounds bleed like crazy! I also broke several ribs too.

I got to take a real fun ambulance ride to the ER where they stapled my head up and stuck some IV needles into my arms and filled me up with liquid meds. The ER Doc told me I was very lucky....he said that I could have died.

To paraphrase Indiana Jones, " I hate wasp, Jacques! I hate 'em!"

 

[priotiynapkin]

Heading home from school today going ~60mph. Notice swarm of bees! Too close to avoid. Think about this thread, duck under the windscreen! right as I ducked probably 30 bees were murdered on my windscreen, headlight, mirrors, fake intakes, everywhere. Spent 15 minutes wiping off bee guts/carcasses when i got home

glad I read this thread yesterday. Probably wouldn't have been so keen on avoiding them otherwise

 

[Deathdiesel]

Im so worried this is going to happen to me soon, im more worried about this though. The little one on the left is about the size of a wasp, for comparison.

We have these in our area, they sound like a fricking hummingbird going by. They absolutely terrify me, and I really think if one stung me I would wreck. A wasp sting i can barely handle, these things are truely the most terrifying creature/bug/whatever around my area. They are absolutely massive.

 

[MNGreg]

Holy bugs batman!!!!! What the heck is that thing? Truly that is real? If i were to see a bee like thing that size i would go bananas and wreck also! !

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[Scott_Thomas]

Im so worried this is going to happen to me soon, im more worried about this though. The little one on the left is about the size of a wasp, for comparison.

We have these in our area, they sound like a fricking hummingbird going by. They absolutely terrify me, and I really think if one stung me I would wreck. A wasp sting i can barely handle, these things are truely the most terrifying creature/bug/whatever around my area. They are absolutely massive.

I've been stung a few hundred times easily, but I think that bad boy would make me pass out.

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[MNGreg]

Funny story, on the way back from work. I had a bee hit me and crawl into the collar of my jacket and procede to make it's way down and crawl around my collar bone area underneath my inside shirt. I was only about 6 blocks or so from work, so I just unzipped my jacket low enough and kept riding till I got to work. Proceded to carefully remove my jacket, my helmet, and grab the collar of my shirt and bend it outwards... there he was.. just a buzzing and crawling around on the inside of my shirt. Proceded to give him a friendly but forceful flick on the *** and it sent him airborne, where he caught up and flew off. In the beginning when I realized he was in my jacket I thought about this thread and chuckled to myself.

Little guy didn't want to die using his stinger. Sounds like you were lucky!

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[Deathdiesel]

Holy bugs batman!!!!! What the heck is that thing? Truly that is real? If i were to see a bee like thing that size i would go bananas and wreck also! !

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I've been stung a few hundred times easily, but I think that bad boy would make me pass out.

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Unfortunately they are completely real. They are true hornets, they bury under ground and make the nests their. Its so awful because you dont know youve found one, until you have 6 of them chasing you. The only thing you can see of their den is a quarter sized hole.

The ONLY sure fire way to destroy their nest is burning it. Literally you have to pour gas in it and light it fast before they come out. The worst part is their stingers are about a half inch long, and can penetrate most clothing. So even if they dont get inside your jacket, they could sting you multiple times anyways.

We destroyed a nest right in front of our house last year, i really should have taken a picture. Really the second picture is about right sizing wise, but it looks like a gentle one. So fat, the ones we have are so aggresive and aerodynamic looking, they are more like the top ones, but the size as the fat one. Never been stung, but ive heard they make grown men cry, and I dont mean that in a rumor sense, as in they WILL make you cry.

Been stung by red wasps, horseflys, and honey bees, never them. I really hope I never have to deal with that situation on the bike.

This shows their true power of JUST the fat ones, not the super aggresive ones. Yeah they bite too.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M"]30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JSP]

WTF!?!?! NO... just flat out NO! I'd be gone.. like leave the state gone. Im not even entering THIS THREAD anymore... see ya!

 

[MNGreg]

Reading some of this now I think I might mess my pants if I were to see one of those land on me, after I fainted!! LOL

NO WAY would I stay living in a state where those things existed. I would be scared for myself but also my poor puppies that would probably want to go after them, or human kids too!! YIKES

edit:
I had enough needles when I was going through Chemo!! Dont need one that can be repeatedly re-used in rapid fashion.