When you think "road trip," you probably also think "swarms of bees." The two things practically go hand-in-hand.
That's what one driver in Montana seemed to think, anyhow.
The Montana Highway Patrol Facebook page reports that a driver in Missoula, Montana was apprehended on May 22 when a highway patrol officer "received a traffic complaint of a vehicle driving all over the road." The person who called in the vehicle claimed that there were bees flying around inside the cab of the car and covering the windows.
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Once they were pulled over, the driver apparently insisted that the five hives of bees he was toting around were Russian honey bees and therefore harmless.
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According to the Montana Highway Patrol, a state apiarist was called on to comment on the situation. The department wrote on Facebook that "troopers learned, although a very unsafe way to transport bees, that the driver needed no permits to transport the bees through the state."
The driver still received a citation for careless driving.
One of the Facebook commenters summed up the whole bizarre situation quite nicely:
