TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man walked away with no damaged bones or severe accidents after being attacked by a swarm of bees and falling almost 30 toes off a bucket truck earlier this week.
Jon Christian shared his outstanding story with reporters at NBC affiliate WESH, telling them that considered one of his docs stated he could also be “the luckiest particular person on the planet.”
Christian was finishing a post-hurricane tree trimming job in Cirtus County Wednesday when he abruptly hit a beehive. He was nonetheless a number of toes increased than the roof subsequent to him because the bees began swarming.
“They only got here straight up at me, and I could not get them off me,” Christian advised WESH.
Amid the chaos, Christian stated he by accident hit a change, trapping himself within the bucket truck because the bees saved stinging him.
“Any person stated soar, so I took off out the aspect of the machine,” he stated. “I fell 30 toes, and I hit the roof and rolled off the roof to the bottom and them issues simply saved coming at me.”
The remainder of Christian’s crew from All Florida Land Providers pulled him away from the swarm and rushed him to the hospital.
Regardless of being stung greater than 100 occasions and struggling a steep fall, Christian, who has had a bee sting allergy since he was a child, was virtually unhurt.
“I had no damaged bones, no inner bleeding and no matter they handled me with on the hospital, it’s a miracle as a result of the swelling went away,” he stated.
Grant Thomas from BeeMan Stan Bee Elimination in Polk County advised reporters he believes it wasn’t European honeybees that almost took Christian’s life, however moderately the killer variety.
“Their comb all through the entire thing was extraordinarily darkish in shade,” Thomas stated. “There was no honey on it in anyway. And you already know, usually, everytime you get attacked by bees, or I ought to say, get stung by bees, you’ve got obtained three or 4 stings. You aren’t getting hit lots of of occasions.”
Christian stated he was grateful to be alive and grateful that his co-workers shortly eliminated him from the life-threatening state of affairs.
“The physician stated that I both had superhuman energy or I am the luckiest particular person on the planet,” he stated.
He is already ordered bee fits in case he encounters one other indignant swarm on the job.
