That is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she's not traumatised. It's surprising the things that can mark us.
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I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn't believe was in my bedroom.
maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?
Maybe she should have said it was a $20,000 bill.
Paying $20,000? I'll take my chances with the bees.
You can have an actual monster removed for that kind of money
33¢ per bee is crazy.
When I was a kid I told my mom about something scary out the window. The didn’t believe me either. Turned out someone was on the side of the house stealing parts off some kind of electrical box.
I don’t remember this. I was told about it later.
I DO remember being afraid of windows until I was an adult.
Based child Linux user /s lol
They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!
I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.
My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.
I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.
Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?
I don't know about bees, but last year I noticed wasps crawling in and out a hole on my balcony. I did not think much of it, but noticed the home owner, just to be safe.
Well they send a beekeeper, and that guy explained to me that now it is quiet, but within 4 weeks he expect there to be about 20000 wasps in there, it would be getting really loud and they would have started to find an exit into my apartment. Apparently they multiply really fast.
Why does everything cost 20k in the US Do most people make a million per year lol
Salaries in the USA are traditionally much higher than in other countries.
We also tend to pay less taxes.
Then we pay a fuck ton for everything else AND we’re like the cutting room floor for shitty capitalist policies that will be shipped over to yall in a decade or so.
That said a nearly 200k/yr salary on the coasts can leave you still struggling to make ends meet whereas 50k in the flyovers can have you sitting happy.
The USA is made up of so many little economies that show up to be one one big economy.
Why would you need to pay for bee removal? Local beekeepers will do it for free in my neighborhood.
Got to open up the walls, clean the honey residue, removing the hive, and rebuild the walls. Getting rid of the bees is the easiest part.
Yeah but that’s $20k? I guess 60k bees is a lot
Walls and shit are expensive, yeah.
$20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area
BBC would suggest UK, so £20k. But also our walls are often solid rather than wood and plasterboard.
Still sounds a lot unless they were taking over like half the house.
until it is a load bearing wall and you need specialists to make sure your house doesn't collapse when replacing it. Also depends on where the house is - if the area is hard to get to with heavy machinery, costs can explode easily.
Edit: Just read the article. The bees started in the attic and went deep into the walls - they had to remove 45kg (100 pounds) of honeycomb out of the walls and had to do three extractions to remove the bees. They fucked up the electrical wiring too (which was probably not limited to the wall with the nest). It also was 20000$ // 16000£.
This happened to me when I was about 10. My parents were getting the house renovated and I kept telling them about this noise in ny bedroom. They got one of the contractors to open a little hole and suddenly bees everywhere. That did not help with my fear of bees.
It's crazy that insurance didn't pay for it because they deemed it "preventable".
Every time I see something that says bees I immediately think of Arrested Development.
Beads. Bees? Beads! Beads?!
there are always bees in the banana stand.

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