Thread: Death, where is thy sting?

Another one is a black type wasp, disturbed a nest of those a few years back and they gave me gyp - very painful.

At one time I was collecting wasp nests to use as wadding in my BP guns and old Barry up the road called ..........
"Got you a good nest here I poisoned."
"When did ya poison it ?"
"Last week."
"Right, see ya then."

Got along with my shovel, it was under a bank and I could see little things crawling around .........
"That's not little wasps is it ?"
"Nah - just grubs."

So I rammed my arm in and those 'little grubs' stung the shit out of me.

The other other wasp incident I remember was when I lived in Taita - had a horse in a paddock behind the house.
One day I heard that horse kicking up a ruckus and poked my head over to see him in full gallop with his neck covered in wasps - then after a time it fell over.
Someone got the vet out ........."Died of a heart attack." was the pronouncement and we all buggered off home ...........

"hope they take that horse away, gonna stink if they don't."
"What am I gonna do for horseshit ?"

And they did move that horse, but not before all the neighbourhood gardeners cleared that paddock of horseshit - almost before you could whistle 'Dixie'.