Huge swarm of bees surprise, scare tourists at busy Times Square street

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

A large swarm of bees abruptly besieged Times Square at lunchtime on Tuesday.

Thereafter, police shut a certain portion of the 43rd Street near Seventh Avenue after a thick swarm of bees gathered atop a blue and yellow umbrella over a hotdog cart in an area of Manhattan already buzzing with swarms of pedestrians, tourists and traffic.

A police officer who keeps bees himself, arrived at the scene in Times Square, known as “The Crossroads of the World,” at 2:30 p.m. ET, wearing a mesh-hooded beekeeper suit. He deployed a vacuum cleaner-like device to collect the bees unharmed, according to the New York Police Detective Sophia Mason.

The scene drew crowds of tourists taking photographs.

Mason mentioned that it took about 45 minutes to suck them up. He also went on to add that currently they were at an undisclosed location and that they would rehive them.
No one was injured in the incident, Mason said.

One of the police officers added that the bees just wanted some hotdogs.

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