A Man Shopping For Groceries Came Back To Find His Car Buzzing With 15,000 Bees

Officials with the Las Cruces Fire Department, which provided the account, said firefighters responded to the scene late Sunday afternoon to find "a swarm of bees inside the vehicle.

It had been a seemingly ordinary trip to an Albertson's grocery store in southern New Mexico. A man carried his shopping bags outside, loaded his bread and other items into the back seat of his Buick and started to drive away. And that's when he saw it - a mass of some 15,000 buzzing bees hanging from one of his rear windows. Officials with the Las Cruces Fire Department, which provided the account, said firefighters responded to the scene late Sunday afternoon to find "a swarm of bees inside the vehicle." Jesse Johnson, an off-duty firefighter who is also a beekeeper, arrived in a traditional white jacket and veiled hat and expertly removed the bees, relocating them to his property, according to a statement from the fire department.