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This doesn't seem like vandals, but more a competitor or someone who wanted to hurt them for something they did. Destroying 50 beehives is a job.
by nkkollaw 9y ago
This doesn't seem like vandals, but more a competitor or someone who wanted to hurt them for something they did.
Destroying 50 beehives is a job.
- LorenPechtel 9y agoMy other thought was it was someone stung by a bee in the area.
- firethief 9y agoIt's winter. Someone was stung by a bee during bee season and has been stewing until now? Besides, whose reaction to a bee sting is to anger half a million more bees?
- aitrean 9y agoYou have to make sure they get the message the first time.
- cheschire 9y agoEnder versus the hive queen, eh?
- mruniverse 9y ago"When you strike at a queen, you must kill her."
- deliriumwilt 9y agoKick them while they're down.
- Balgair 9y ago.
- scythe 9y agoThe article is published by the Los Angeles Times, but the incident occurred in Iowa.
- tankenmate 9y agoCommercial hives are normally sealed during winter in places that are in even the slightest way cold.
- anigbrowl 9y agoThat doesn't really seem plausible.
- fencepost 9y agolostlogin posted some links to better stories, but the short of it is that the 50 hives were knocked over into the snow, which probably led to the tops falling off, etc. and the death of the bees. It's quite possible that there's not a huge amount of physical damage to the hives themselves unless they're large and heavy enough to have broken badly when they hit.
- userbinator 9y agoI believe you're referring to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042243 It mentions other related equipment also being destroyed, which also strongly hints that this isn't just plain vandalism.
- delinka 9y agoTechnically, they're vandals. They vandalized someone else's property. The motive doesn't change that fact.
- vanderZwan 9y agoWould there not be different, added charges if the perpetrators were competitors trying to sabotage the victim?
- anigbrowl 9y agoTechnically, they committed criminal mischief and theft, maybe other crimes. 'Vandalism' isn't a legal term, but rather a lay characterization of a kind of criminal damage. It's also associated with casual destruction/damage of property rather than criminal enrichment. Motivation matters a lot in criminal law.
- todd8 9y agoEnvy, boredom, anger, signaling to others or showing off were good enough reasons for vandalism amongst many of the kids I went to school with. Financial gain wasn't a requirement for them to be destructive.