{"id":788,"date":"2007-10-21T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/10\/21\/a-different-kind-of-swarming\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T04:40:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T08:40:57","slug":"a-different-kind-of-swarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/10\/21\/a-different-kind-of-swarming\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of swarming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Thousands of bees escaped when a truck that was carrying their hives ran off the highway and overturned near a Montana community.<\/p>\n<p>One State trooper, Dell Aman, stated that he&#8217;d been stung twice, but he didn&#8217;t think anyone else was injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 5px; float: right\"><!--adsense#smallsquare--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The public was in no way in danger, as long as they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop to get out of their vehicles,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If they did get out, they figured out pretty quickly that that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the place to be \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no pun intended.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>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. 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