Sep 18 2008
Free Bees
Sometimes, in the morning, I get a cup of coffee and troll craigslist looking at their “Free stuff” section to see if there is anything good. Mostly it’s just pictures of free couches with suspicious looking stains or someone giving away a bizarre assortment of things they found in the back of their yard and/or freezer (a recent posting was for free soy ice cream bars and the poster swore that they had only eaten one), but occasionally there is something really awesome on their (not that I ever go get the awesome things… I am too lazy, even for free stuff). Anyway, this morning, there was this mysterious post for, for free bees:
–Free Bees, you remove.
The post also had a phone number, but there was really no other supplementary information. This, of course is exactly the kind of thing that gets me thinking. What circumstances lead you to have a bunch of free bees? What do people charge for bees that aren’t free? With the nationwide shortage of bees should we even really be giving bees away? How do you remove a bunch of free bees?
I am sort of tempted to call this person and try and get the free bees for myself. Having an army of bees to do my bidding would be pretty awesome (although I imagine bees are sort of hard to control and more interested in making honey than waging war). Anyway, thought I would toss it up here so everyone else could ponder it too…
