r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/I_am_from_2029 • 20h ago
WCGW Trying to remove a big wasp nest.
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u/No-Sail-6510 20h ago
I don’t think it’s possible to do a worse job than this. How many things did he run into? Wtf.
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u/TrickMirror9723 20h ago
That's what I thought...he tripped and stumbled so many times
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u/PipsqueakPilot 16h ago
I think there might have been something distracting him from where he was going.
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u/syndicaterx 19h ago
Oddly enough, I’ve seen several wasp nest removal videos and have seen worse
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u/Small_Matter_6830 20h ago
Dropping the bag of stinging death into the river right beside him was just too complicated.
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u/First-Ad-7960 10h ago
I would have considered throwing myself into the river once the stinging started.
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u/RevenantBacon 18h ago
It definitely could have. He could have dropped the bag in such a way that the nest just fell out and the entire rest of the searm came out at him.
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u/Yah_Mule 20h ago
Nice of him to leave the bag there. Perhaps people will deduce from his nearby corpse not to fuck with it.
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u/Kittykatcatkat 19h ago
I accidentally hit an underground wasps nest while doing yard work. It was brutal, they saw I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts as armor and 15 wasps went under my clothes and bit the shit outta me. I ran into the bathroom stripped my clothes off and was still battling those bastards naked. I thought my family would find my lifeless naked corpse in the bathroom and wonder what happened..
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u/haggard_hominid 19h ago
First day moving into new house I ran a nest of hornets over with a mower.. As soon as I realized it I took a moment to make sure the blades kept spinning for a few seconds before bolting, it ended up blending the majority (thousands) of hornets and I got away with 3 stings XD.
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u/whenveganscheat 18h ago
Good thing you didn't try mowing your lawn with a bag
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u/ElvishLore 15h ago
That was smart and disciplined!
I probably would’ve instantly run, crying like a little girl
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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 18h ago
We had a nest a few years ago that looked pretty small, so I filled the hole with expanding foam in the middle of the night and thought "eat shit fuckers".
Anyway, my wife sends me a video the next day of a tornado of yellow jackets that could be seen from the road.
After warning all the neighbors and a couple days of preparation, I went out in multiple layers of pants and hoodies, a mask, long socks and boots, and everything taped up to be safe. I then took two full cans of raid and emptied them into the hole, I threw the cans down and grabbed my two electric fly swatters which I held over the multiple holes. Between the poison and fly swatters, I got most of them. Still got two stings through 2 thick hoodies, but it went ok.
Next time we found a nest I jokingly left the corpse of a rotisserie chicken beside it as an offering. A skunk wiped out the entire nest in the middle of the night. Turns out they love that shit and we were just marking their dinner with a dead chicken.
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u/hera_the_destroyer 17h ago
Next time fill a five gallon bucket with dawn and water. Pour into the hole at night.
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u/tajniak485 17h ago
Why would you try to de-lice hornets
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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 6h ago
The lice are what make them so angry. Once deliced they're really chill and don't attack.
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u/First-Ad-7960 10h ago
I found a nest in front of my house last summer and while I was deciding what to do a fox came in overnight and tore the whole thing out of the ground for me.
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u/ConsolationUsername 16h ago
When I was at summer camp, like 7 or 8 years old some kid stepped on an underground wasp nest and the screams were so loud and terrifying they initiated emergency protocols because they thought a bear had started mauling a kid.
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u/MechaMarshmallow 17h ago
Same experience! Back when I was a kid walking home from school I stepped one pace off the path into the undergrowth and my foot busted right into a hidden nest. Wasps all up inside that trouser leg, a nightmare.
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u/MeatwadIsGod 16h ago
This happened to me a few years ago, basically the same exact scenario. I immediately ran inside, stripped, and hopped in the shower. Then I had to flush out and kill the 5 or 10 that were still living and had followed me inside. I had easily 25 stings all over my thighs, midsection, and arms. It's funny that the stings didn't even really hurt much because my adrenaline was pumping like crazy, but the severe itchiness of the stings that began the next day and continued for several days later was absolutely brutal.
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u/haeyhae11 18h ago
It takes hundreds of stings to die, possibly even up to a thousand.
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u/Alpacapybara 17h ago
Experienced something similar. Being attacked by an angry swarm is a crazy experience and that shit hurt for a decent while after
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u/Humble-Plankton1824 20h ago
I thought you are supposed to smoke them out with gasoline fumes before removal
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u/NoDiggity8888 20h ago
Are you sure you’re not meant to just put a bag half over it, hit yourself with the nest then lie down and die?
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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 19h ago
You would think so, but actually, surprisingly, no.
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u/PaintCollector 13h ago
Hahaha dude nothing gets me like nuclear sarcasm. I only watched to the second concussion; I gotta go back and see him shed his moral coil
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u/j-random 20h ago
I just wait until dark and they settle down for the night. Wad up a piece of newspaper on the end of a stick, light it, then use that to light the nest. It's all over in about ten seconds.
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u/Puzzled_Ocelot1537 18h ago
And then you put the burnt nest in a bag and hit yourself over the head with it? I don't really understand how you do step two.
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u/Forward-Trade5306 15h ago
See, this method actually works well while it's still on fire because then the person catches on fire and the wasps cant sting a person thats on fire.
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u/jamnoNewEpoch 20h ago
Was looking for a pragmatic comment: I mean I never had to deal with wasp nests and probably never will.
I wonder why people don`t deal with that from a distance. My first quess was of course flamethrower :) but yes, torch on a stick looks promising. If this works, I will definitively keep that on my mind.
Thank you
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u/ArchStanton75 19h ago
If you don’t want a burning fireball on your house, Raid makes wasp spray that can hit from 15 feet away. I’ve done two nests that way, quick and easy, without setting fire to anything.
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u/Ooze76 16h ago
Yes, that spray is amazing. You just hit the nest from a good distance and they start to fall down easily. I only had to do it twice.
If they’re not really near my house I just let them
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u/spaceraverdk 7h ago
If they’re not really near my house I just let them
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 20h ago
Diesel actually.
With a burlap sack like this just soak it in diesel fuel and cover the nest.
The fumes will anger the wasps who will fly out, hit the diesel soaked bag an melt their bodies on contact.
In a few minutes they will all be dead/injured enough from fumes to carry away
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u/Self-Comprehensive 19h ago
Do we just not export RAID? I can hit a wasp nest from 20 feet away. Sure a big one like that might take a couple of doses but damn. This dude with his safety squints, safety t shirt and safety sandals could even handle that
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 19h ago
Diesel fuel is readily available in many rural/developing areas as large equipnent fuel.
Raid is not.
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u/HAc0reRD 20h ago
Nononono please nobody try smoking gas. Holy shit.
You can use smoke like from wood fire, or the fumes from gas can kill them. But these are entirely separate things.
Gas is highly flammable wouldn’t just smoke. Please do not do that to a hive. You’ll end up worse than just stings.
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u/LittleJohnStone 17h ago
Misunderstood your message, so I'm hitting myself with a 5-gallon gas can while running through an open flame
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u/Humble-Plankton1824 20h ago
Ok so my use of the word "smoke" shouldn't be taken literally here. I meant use gasoline vapors. "Smoke them out" is a phrase
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u/hoemahtoe 17h ago
Well, actually also do NOT use burning wood/smoke. Unlike honeybees who calm down in smoke due to it covering up their alarm pheromones, wasps are not the same. They do not calm down with smoke, in fact, it will just make them more defensive, agitated and unpredictable.
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u/Fun_Routine_5245 20h ago
It won't work, unlike bees. If you desperately need to smoke it, use a product similar to mosquito coils but in a paper form which produces a lot of smoke once ignited. This way will make the wasps disoriented and won't sting.
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u/sifiwewe 20h ago
I’m guessing that the person in the video and the people in the background didn’t know that. he made a lot of mistakes, but I would hope that the people that were watching him were glad that he tried
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u/Fun_Environment3792 20h ago
They'll me just as pissed either way. Youre thinking of bees, and the smoke doesnt smoke them out. It calms and slows them down. Ideally when you remove a wasps nest you want them to be inside the nest, not outside the nest fucking you up.
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u/Immediate_Danger 20h ago
Hitting yourself with a giant bag of angry wasps to resolve the issue…
https://giphy.com/gifs/65os7odbIW6pa
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u/Obvious_Ambition4865 17h ago
What the fuck was it catching on though? Determination is such a lethal trait when it's paired with panic
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u/Small_Matter_6830 20h ago
Where is he going with it?
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u/blackbb601 20h ago
Taking them home to make honey cuz no honey no money
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u/Reversed_PandaRick 19h ago
Wasps don’t make honey just pain and less money
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u/GalickGunn 20h ago
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u/RBeck 16h ago
I actually posted one like this where the guy ended up dying and kinda felt bad for a whole minute. (It was the guy in the excavator cab if you're curious)
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u/chucky6661 20h ago
Did he just lie down and give up at the end ?
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u/kremlingrasso 17h ago
No he is having a cardiac arrest.
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u/AppropriateLow2271 15h ago
Their stings carry some sort of venom don't they?
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 12h ago
Oh yes. It triggers cell damage and essentially deadly allergic reactions. Leading to anaphylaxis regardless of how allergic you are if you get enough stings. Bees and wasps are some serious shit.
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u/WazuufTheKrusher 6h ago
It takes a pretty absurd amount of stings to get there, it is way more than the 150 I have seen people say.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 6h ago
Depends on many factors. Prior exposure, body weight, and pre-existing conditions to name a few. Some people can die from a single sting, some won't die at 1000+.
I certainly wouldn't want to be stung 150 times.
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u/Puzzled_Ocelot1537 18h ago
Give him some slack, he was making a new plan. Maybe if he sat on the bag of wasps?
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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 13h ago
He tried sleeping with the bag of wasps
Turns out, that didn't work
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u/dolla-dolla-billyall 9h ago
Ahhh them stings can kill you by sending your body into shock. Even if you ain’t allergic. And wasps bite and sting as much as they want. Unlike beed it ain’t Kamikaze.
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u/TrickMirror9723 20h ago
His foot work in trying to get away was atrocious
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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz 20h ago
You try to float like a butterfly when you're being stung by a (thousand) wasp(s)
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 20h ago
WCGW: beating yourself in the head with a big bag of angry wasps?
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u/cyb3rg0d5 20h ago
As someone who stepped on a wasps’ nest by accident and got stung a ridiculous number of times…. I can tell you that it’s NOT fun 😅
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u/Petufo 20h ago
Many people would die from a single sting (allergy)... and he has to got them like thousand.
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u/cyb3rg0d5 20h ago
Yep! I was hospitalized but luckily I was a bit more resilient to the stings. 3 other people that year were not so lucky.
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u/NotYetReadyToRetire 19h ago
The last time I got stung my throat start swelling up; the ER bill made me wonder if it would have been cheaper to just let my survivors pay for the funeral next time.
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u/Realmdog56 18h ago
Sometimes, getting stung that many times at once can be what induces the allergy and makes someone sensitive to it in the future. Happened to my uncle from stepping on a nest as a kid; he still has to carry an epi-pen to this day.
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u/UnknownNexus 20h ago
This reminds me when I was a kidding feeding seagulls popcorn from a large bag. They chased me down the beach until my dad gave me the same advice I would now impart on this poor idiot...."Throw the bag, stupid!"
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u/digital 20h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/MUPgAsqlnwzO8
This is the PROPER method for Wasp disposal!
Jeez people.
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u/Fuka-Obligation666 19h ago
I saw my friends dad do this as a kid. I was watching from behind the window the nest was above. Lmao still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen irl and that was like 20 years ago
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u/Righteousaffair999 20h ago
How many wasp stings does it take to kill you?
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u/Jibril-Vakarine 20h ago
1000 to 1500, there are between 10 to 20k wasps in a nest.
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u/Righteousaffair999 19h ago
I would have figured less than that but i don’t think he made it.
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u/Jibril-Vakarine 19h ago
Yeah unfortunately i dont think he made it either because handling a wasp nest that big is no joke nor a game.
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u/RRfromKL 20h ago
I mean the audacity to scratch off the itch with the bag that contains the wasp nest..
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u/CrackheadHunters 19h ago
Is bro really hitting himself with the bag of wasps, in order to get rid of the wasps attacking him?
I bet this dude literally fights fire with more fire.
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u/goofytigre 19h ago
At first I thought r/donthelpjustfilm, but then I remembered it was wasps/hornets and I was like:
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u/Chickabbbbb 20h ago
I have a redneck uncle that uses a blowtorch to take down wasps nests (it works perfectly). He uses that blowtorch for garden weeds, too. Lol
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u/FucknAright 20h ago
Rest assured the only time I'm fucking with a wasp nest is with a flamethrower
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u/Chilune 20h ago
River, or whatever shit drain is it, is literally one step from nest. And I'd rather jump in it and swim a few meters. Assuming it's deep enough.
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u/supasolda6 11h ago
Jumping in water is like worst choice, they will just wait above untill you come to surface. Just running as fast as possible to somewhere safe is best choice
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u/5headFreddy 20h ago
Dude getting close lined while trying to run away with the nest is the cherry on top
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u/Poasktarillo432 18h ago
Psst, it's: "clotheslined". Like the little line you hang your wet clothes on to dry. Running full speed into one of those really sucks - trust me.
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u/Fun_Routine_5245 20h ago
The wasp sting is no joking, it is more painful than a bee sting. They can sting repeatedly because it won't get stuck unlike bees.
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u/OonaPelota 20h ago
This reminds me of the scene with O.J. Simpson at the beginning of the naked gun
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u/Slam_Bot 17h ago
Didn’t even bother to pop a quick W on that bag so everyone knows it’s full of wasps.
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u/Resident_Nature5634 20h ago
I have some bees under my deck. Wonder what this guy would charge to get rid of them!!!!
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u/Sharp-Dark-9768 20h ago
I would not want to be close enough to film that guy. There would be a LOT of angry wasps in a 50-meter radius
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u/grrr-to-everything 19h ago
The things that can kill people and yet they still do them anyway is pretty incredible.
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u/MrBagooo 18h ago
That's bait. I mean ehy would someone film this. This was done on purpose. Nobody can be THIS stupid.
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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 12h ago
I hope he's ok. For all we know, his kid is allergic and he was acting in valor. At the very least, he suffered extreme pain. The way he fell over in the end was not good.
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u/Roddy_Piper2000 20h ago
Trying to get rid of wasps by hitting yourself with a bag of wasps.
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