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    Landscaper found dead in Detroit backyard believed to have been stung

    https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/lan...ave-been-stung

    DETROIT (FOX 2) - Authorities are investigating after a body was found in the backyard of a home on Vermont Street on Detroit's west side Thursday morning.

    Right now it's believed that a contractor doing landscaping at the property died after being attacked and stung by either bees or wasps.

    "This is not something you expect to happen on your day-to-day business," said realtor Tom Ball. He's selling the house for an out-of-state client and was able to piece together what happened by talking to neighbors.

    "Your reaction in the situation [is], obviously something bad had happened so the first thing you do is call police because we didn't know what had happened at that point in time. We just saw there was somebody in the backyard," Ball said.

    The homeowner had hired a landscaper to do yard work on Tuesday afternoon.

    "He was trimming the hedges and all of a sudden it was pretty obvious that he had bumped into a wasps or a hornets nest and he was waving them around and was running away from where it was happening," Ball said.

    A neighbor assumed the man ran to get help but now it is believed that he ran into the backyard, where his body was found two days later.

    "That's the worst thing. His family, his friends, his loved ones wondering where he is and this is where he was and nobody knew," Ball said.

    It's presumed he was stung to death by some kind of insect.

    "We had gone into the front of the house numerous times, we've been in the yard numerous times and had never seen any evidence of a nest or anything like that, a beehive or anything like that," Ball said.

    Police aren't releasing the victim's identity. An autopsy will reveal the exact cause of death.

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    This is a big fear of mine. I'm allergic. Everytime I have been stung, it involved an ER trip. Once Daddy was taking me to a drive-in movie (I'm from the era of movie theaters, but my parents loved for me to have different experiences in life.) when a bee flew in the car window and stung me in the head. Because of past experiences with me, he immediately made an illegal u-turn and rushed to the hospital.

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    Fuck bees.


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    Happy Birthday! I hid a dead body in your backyard to celebrate. Good luck finding it under the cement. You can only use a stick to look for it.

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