Nailed by a mutant bee?

[Hosehead]

So there I was riding merrily along at 50km/h when suddenly I was nailed in the forehead by a bee stinger.
Never mind the pain, but how is it possible for such an event to occur?
Of course, there was no bee attached to the stinger left behind, because the last thing that went through its brain was its arrsehole. However I am intrigued to understand how a bee can plant a stinger with such amazing accuracy at such a high rate of speed as to cause a huge sting.
Does anyone have any answers?

 

[porn$tar]

My guess would be that bees don't normally fly into things stinger first. Maybe she first landed on your forehead, then after deciding you were a threat, stung you.

Got stung on my hand once while we were braaing, in my state of insobriety, i assumed a hot coal had landed on my hand, that's what it felt like.

 

[Surv0]

flying backwards, stinger in the direction of your forehead, you moving forward at a rate of knots - bam!!
one eina kop and one dead bee

 

[Scooby_Doo]

couldn't it be flying in the same direction you were going and you simply just rammed into the back of hit?

 

[porn$tar]

consider yourself lucky you didn't fly through a swarm, or that it didn't get into your mouth

 

[LCBXX]

couldn't it be flying in the same direction you were going and you simply just rammed into the back of hit?

+1 on that theory.

 

[Hosehead]

couldn't it be flying in the same direction you were going and you simply just rammed into the back of hit?

Possible...but the velocities and scale involved were so extreme one needs to ask how something as soft as a stinger can penetrate a solid concrete wall? Ever seen that video of a fighter jet crashing into a concrete wall. There was nothing left...not even an antenna. So how come a whole bee sting dripping with venom?

 

[Myrrdin]

Concrete wall ?

 

[Hosehead]

Concrete wall ?

If you crash into something stationary or slow moving at 50km/h it's like hitting a concrete wall is it not.
The same applies to someone jumping off a very high bridge. The water below becomes a concrete slab when a human impacts the water.
So bee stinger hitting forehead at high speed...the stinger is literally passing through concrete, relatively speaking.

 

[porn$tar]

skin yields, concrete doesn't. literally

 

[assasin20xe]

thats beside the point...

 

[porn$tar]

Is it?

 

[Alan]

The other day I noticed a massive wasp in the back of the car. Was rather uncomfortable having it in the car . If the thing decided to attack me there was nothing I could do

 

[The_Unbeliever]

The other day I noticed a massive wasp in the back of the car. Was rather uncomfortable having it in the car . If the thing decided to attack me there was nothing I could do

Wasps sting more than once. Found a nest of the little red ones under the roof at our house - and terminated it ASAP. Wasps and a nursery school doesn't go together...

Wasps shall be known as der Luftwaffe from now on...

 

[Hosehead]

Wasps shall be known as der Luftwaffe from now on...

Well at least they're not mutant

 

[DeadCore]

i hate bees they don't seem to like me one flies into the tv room comes right at me and stings me on the arm stupid bee

 

[Dr.G]

Bees arnt exactly slow fliers hey . . .