Ye Old One Gun Salute

I have a lot of favorite television shows, but my all time favorite is Flip That House – or any show that deals with people investing money and hoping to turn a profit.  Tonight there is like a marathon of Flip That House on TLC right now (or maybe there are back to back episodes every Sunday…?) I almost couldn’t tear myself away to write this here blog.  You, the lucky denizens of the web are about to bear fruit of my experiences.  (Stand and cheer.)

Okay, so I have no experiences other than what I have born witness to on the boob tube – but rest assured that if you could take the element of risk and guarantee positive results – I would totally be a house flipper.  I too could be one of those rich A-holes who drive around town in their non-purpose SUVs eating vanilla Tootsie Rolls and Mocha-Frappuccinos… I’m so there mentally.

So I am sitting there watching this cool episode when the landscaper on the show slices into a tree, only to find it completely full of Africanized bees.  They said that Africanized bees, or “Killer Bees” were something they’d have to call in a specialist for… and then had them exterminated.  But they only used the term “Killer Bees” once – other than that they made it a point to call them Africanized bees.  Was “Killer” bee just too much of a stigma?  Has the Africanized bee been persecuted over time?  I guess only they know for sure.  Maybe they should have said “Killa bees” – cause only true Africanized bees can say “Killer” and not have a negative meaning.

I hear its only a myth however, that Africanized bees have larger stingers and fly faster than other bees.  Though I do understand that once you go Africanized honey, you don’t ever go back.  Which is a shame since I really like clover and spun honey.

So yeah, they ended up killing all the bees and ripping out the tree – only to plant three smaller trees in its place.  The dude finally sold the house for a profit of about 40K after about 7 weeks of labor.  Not bad.  Of course maybe that’s all Hitler was doing.  He just wanted to gas the Jews so he could make room for three smaller groups of Jews.  I certainly do not condone or advocate that line of thinking – but those bees weren’t hurting anyone, and the landscaper did seem to have a Germanic accent.

I’m just sayin’…

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