In what sounds like the setup for what would surely be an awesome Sci-Fi Channel original movie, a Union Square GameStop store in New York City was surrounded by thousands of angry bees, trapping employees for hours.
As local news station ABC7 reports (via Joystiq), the store evidently had a large bee hive running up its wall, and something (although it’s not clear what) disturbed them. And it disturbed them so much they began swarming the store unrelentingly.
“When I got here, there was already like a thousand bees in there…then they came out…there were more…they were like — in a pack,” said “bee watcher” Jay Lorenzo to ABC7. And here’s the best part (and you know a story is pretty incredible when “thousands of bees terrorize GameStop store” isn’t even the best part): ABC7 reportedly called the police for help, who told them to call the fire department. The fire department told them to call 911. 911 said call 311… and they told them to call Mayor Michael Bloomberg. You have to love city bureaucracy.