The most buzzworthy event to hit Brooklyn yesterday happened outside an East New York supermarket, where thousands of bees had to be wrangled from a tree.
“There were a ton of bees,” said witness Al Tomason, 27. “It was crazy.”
The NYPD’s bee guru, Detective Anthony Planakis, teamed up with Queens beekeeper Tom Wilk to remove approximately 17,500 buzzers from Sutter Avenue and Sheffield Street at 5 p.m. But not before some residents got a scare.
“I came out of the supermarket and I jumped,” said Edna Watson, 57. “It looked like one of my big brown wigs. I dropped my bread and ran.”
Wilk, from the New York City Beekeepers Association, said that the bees were likely just looking for a place to live.
“Odds are they outgrew the hive,” Wilk said. “So they go to the tree and wait until they find another home.”
The bees were taken to a hive in Queens.