Bee Damned! Hive Remedy Sparks House Fire

If you want to get rid of a hive of bees, call an exterminator

Here's another example of when do it yourself goes wrong.

A Lake Worth man who was tired of the buzzing in his walls decided to take matters into his own hands and smoke out a hive of bees over the weekend. So he lit a towel with a match in hopes of smoking the bees out.

We think you can figure out what happens next.

Instead of destroying the hive that had formed behind a wall, the man lit his entire house on fire. The homeowner and three other people were able to escape the house without injury, according to CBS12.

When firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze, they eventually found what the man was looking for: a massive hive that stretched from the ceiling to the floor containing thousands of bees. The honey makers had made the inside of a wall a cozy home.

And the moral of this story? Don't become your own worst pest trying to get rid of one.

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