A moment of silence for our buzzing brethren: More than 13 million honeybees and their hives were dumped onto I-5 in Lynnwood when the semi-truck that was carrying them overturned. State Patrol Sgt. Keith Leary described the cloud of confused pollinators as “something you would see on Animal Planet.”
On the Animal Planet Freak-Out Scale, with “Meerkat Manor” on one end and “Pit Bulls and Parolees” on the other, we’d place the agitated bees between “Hillbilly Handfishin’” and “My Cat From Hell.”
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There’s one for you, 19 for me: The U.S. Treasury’s inspector general said that taxpayers who called the IRS’s toll-free hotline this year waited nearly 25 minutes to speak with someone, double last year’s wait.
But, to make the wait more bearable, the IRS updated its hold music to include The Beatles’ “Taxman,” Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing,” Barenaked Ladies’ “If I Had a Million Dollars,” and Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems.”
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Tell me you didn’t forget the half &half: The SpaceX supply ship Dragon arrived at the International Space Station, delivering supplies including a specially designed espresso machine.
Yes, it uses those annoying and wasteful little K cups, but the astronauts can jettison them, after which they’ll burn up during re-entry.
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