We’ve got terrible news for those of you dreaming about setting a world record for most number of bees perched on your body.
The bar got set a little higher today.
Gao Bingguo, a beekeeper in China, survived 240 pounds of bees on his body. That’s about 1 million bees, if you’re keeping score.
The Qilu Evening News reported that Gao was stung about 2,000 times.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins