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Beekeeper Filmed Unleashing a Swarm of Bees on the Cops Trying to Evict Her

A Massachusetts beekeeper was convicted after unleashing hives during an eviction attempt at a $1.9 million home.

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I don’t want to live in a comic book world where everyone has superpowers they can unleash on each other. But every now and then, it’s nice to have a new story and feel like it was ripped straight from a Silver Age comic book. Case in point: cops called them to evict someone in Massachusetts and, allegedly, had a swarm of bees unleashed on them.

The story is set in 2022, but the details are just now being made public. According to a New York Times report, sheriff deputies in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, responded to a $1.9 million home to serve eviction papers. Around the same time they arrived, a beekeeper arrived with a truck full of hives.

The truck was being driven by 59-year-old Rebecca Woods, who did not take kindly to the cops at the doorstep. She allegedly opened........

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