Thousands of bees escaped when a truck that was carrying their hives ran off the highway and overturned near a Montana community.

One State trooper, Dell Aman, stated that he’d been stung twice, but he didn’t think anyone else was injured.

“The public was in no way in danger, as long as they didn’t stop to get out of their vehicles,” he said. “If they did get out, they figured out pretty quickly that that wasn’t the place to be — no pun intended.”

The truck had been traveling from North Dakota to California when it veered into a ditch along interstate 94 just at the exit for Huntley. The driver of the truck wasn’t injured in the accident, but he was cited for alleged careless driving.

The truck had been carrying 465 beehives which amounted to nearly 13.7 million bees!

Luckily most of the bees behaved and stayed in their hives but a few thousand got loose.

Once the weather cooled in the evening the bees returned to their hives.

Good thing this didn’t happen in the middle of a city! I’d imagine more people might have been stung if it had.

Betty Kratzke finally figured out what was disturbing the flowers near her driveway all summer. She discovered that 44 baby snapping turtles were crawling around her yard trampling her plants.

“The turtles are the cutest little thing,” said the Jamestown, N.D., resident. She also went on to state that she was relieved it wasn’t a muskrat or raccoon wrecking her flowers.

She scooped up the little snappers in a cardboard box and dropped them off at nearby James River.

Good thing she moved them. She wouldn’t think they were so cute as they got bigger!

Objects made of metal are being stolen by people looking to cash in on the increase in raw metal prices. Church roofs, statues, drain covers and even tweezers have been stolen in the city of Paris.

Thefts of copper, aluminum, zinc and nickel were up 144 percent in France last year.

“We are witnessing a real pillage of companies’ assets,” Colonel Philippe Schneider, who heads a police division that specializes in countering such crime, told reporters.

“Everything can be stolen, everything can be sold — cables, drain covers, sculptures,” Schneider said. “We even had 300 kilograms of tweezers stolen.”

Other targets included plane doors, phone booth floors, car wheel rims, cemetery gates and a church roof made of zinc.

Copper, widely used in construction and industry, became a big target for thieves last year as prices of the metal doubled to $8,800 a tonne at one point due to booming Asia demand.

Schneider said stealing cable from a building site or hijacking trucks loaded with scrap metal could pay more than robbing a cash machine or a bank and was far less risky.

“Stealing 10 tonnes of copper is simple,” he said.

“Alongside the traditional petty thefts are methods typical of organized crime, such as … armed robberies, often by international networks.”

However, the number of incidents reported had dropped around 40 percent since October, partly due to a fall in prices and partly because of police efforts to break up organized gangs, he said.

World copper prices have tumbled over the past few months but remain around 20 percent higher than at the same time last year.

Schneider said thieves often sold metal to recycling companies. However, of the 2,500 to 3,000 recycling firms in France, a maximum of 100 were involved in metals trafficking.

Villagers in a remote eastern India village protested after police arrived to arrest a three-month-old boy for robbery.

The boys name was subsequently dropped from a list of those accused of robbing bus passengers last week. Well yeah, the kid can’t even walk, how’s he going to rob bus passengers? An investigation is being conducted to figure out how this happened.

A police officer, Kumar, said the boy may have been named by the complainant “with a malicious intent”. Who on earth would have malicious intent against a 3 month old - more likely I believe, it was a prank.