Hornet!
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Joined: Aug 2009
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From: South Central Pa.
Got stung twice by the same creature Saturday.
It got in my shirt and stung me on the upper left chest. I got pulled over and as I opened my shirt up a couple of buttons it flew out and off for further adventure, which is just what the wife and I did after it left.
I still have two pretty good size welts that are starting to itch but don't hurt anymore.
It got in my shirt and stung me on the upper left chest. I got pulled over and as I opened my shirt up a couple of buttons it flew out and off for further adventure, which is just what the wife and I did after it left.
I still have two pretty good size welts that are starting to itch but don't hurt anymore.
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From: GA
I told this story in another "bee" thread, but here goes:
I am riding from where my family lives in Iowa to Chicago. It is a chilly, cloudy morning so I have the sleeves on my leathers zipped and leather gloves on. The sun comes out and it gets warmer about the time I am getting into the heavier traffic entering the Chicago suburbs so I take off my gloves and drop them into the front of my coat, unzip my sleeves (I have a t-shirt on underneath) and proceed to run about 75 mph in heavy expressway traffic.
All of a sudden I feel a burning in my armpit and I realize a wasp is stinging me. It had flown into my leather sleeve and then into my t-shirt sleeve. (hold your arm up in front of you and you can see how the t-shirt hangs) How did I know it was a wasp, you ask? Because a wasp can sting more than once.
I couldn't just let go of the throttle to swat at him so I started trying to crush him in my armpit, which just knocked him down inside my t-shirt where he started stinging me on the love handle. I finally get the bike slowed down and off to the side of the road where I jump off, rip off my leathers and pull up my shirt. The little bastard falls on the ground where I proceed to start stomping him while cussing up a blue streak.
The girl that was on the back of the bike thought I had lost my mind.
Two weeks later I am getting some ink done and tell my artist the story. I now have a little wasp tattooed inside my left bicep up near the pit where I was stung.
I am riding from where my family lives in Iowa to Chicago. It is a chilly, cloudy morning so I have the sleeves on my leathers zipped and leather gloves on. The sun comes out and it gets warmer about the time I am getting into the heavier traffic entering the Chicago suburbs so I take off my gloves and drop them into the front of my coat, unzip my sleeves (I have a t-shirt on underneath) and proceed to run about 75 mph in heavy expressway traffic.
All of a sudden I feel a burning in my armpit and I realize a wasp is stinging me. It had flown into my leather sleeve and then into my t-shirt sleeve. (hold your arm up in front of you and you can see how the t-shirt hangs) How did I know it was a wasp, you ask? Because a wasp can sting more than once.
I couldn't just let go of the throttle to swat at him so I started trying to crush him in my armpit, which just knocked him down inside my t-shirt where he started stinging me on the love handle. I finally get the bike slowed down and off to the side of the road where I jump off, rip off my leathers and pull up my shirt. The little bastard falls on the ground where I proceed to start stomping him while cussing up a blue streak.
The girl that was on the back of the bike thought I had lost my mind.
Two weeks later I am getting some ink done and tell my artist the story. I now have a little wasp tattooed inside my left bicep up near the pit where I was stung.
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Joined: May 2006
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From: Western NC
I was riding with my ex (before she was my ex) and some friends on the Cherohola Skyway and a wasp went down the back of her shirt, stinging the whole way, and into her pants. Looked back to see her pull over real fast and put on a strip show....every body new what color panties she had on that day LOL
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Joined: Jun 2007
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From: New Hartford CT
Only happened to me once, but it was memorable. 
I was in the middle of a 'Y' intersection in a small village in rural CT (which fortunately means almost no traffic), bearing right. A wasp flew inside my t-shirt and started stinging me in the chest and belly. I must have been quite the sight, smacking myself in the chest trying to kill that thing without running off the road!
I was in the middle of a 'Y' intersection in a small village in rural CT (which fortunately means almost no traffic), bearing right. A wasp flew inside my t-shirt and started stinging me in the chest and belly. I must have been quite the sight, smacking myself in the chest trying to kill that thing without running off the road!
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