FL: TREE TRIMMER SURVIVES BEE ATTACK AND 30FT FALL
<p><pi><b>This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.</b></pi></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><pi><b>Stations Please Note: This package is being delivered to you for use only in its entirety. This means that if you choose to run any of this package, you must run the entire package, including any standups or tags. You may not cut down, alter or pull clips from this package.</b></pi></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Friday</p>\n<p>Brevard Co., FL</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:16-:23</p>\n<p>Jon Christian</p>\n<p>Survived Bee Attack </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:34-1:44</p>\n<p>Grant Thomas </p>\n<p>BeeMan Stan Bee Removal</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>A BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA MAN SURVIVED A SWARM OF BEES AND A 30 FOOT FALL DURING A TREE-TRIMMING JOB.</p>\n<p>JUSTIN SCHECKER HAS THE STORY.</p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Jon Christian/Survived Bee Attack </p>\n<p>"A souvenir of the honey comb from the colony that almost killed my husband."</p>\n<p>THIS PHOTO SHOWS JUST HOW HIGH JON CHRISTIAN WAS OFF THE GROUND ON WEDNESDAY...</p>\n<p>WHEN HE HIT A BEE HIVE DURING A POST-HURRICANE TREE TRIMMING JOB IN CITRUS COUNTY.</p>\n<p>Jon Christian "They just came straight up at me and I couldn't get them off me."</p>\n<p>CHRISTIAN, WHO IS FROM BREVARD COUNTY, SAYS HE ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE SWITCH...</p>\n<p>SO HE WAS STUCK IN HIS BUCKET TRUCK...</p>\n<p>AS THE BEES KEPT STINGING HIM.</p>\n<p>Jon Christian "Somebody said jump so I took off out the side of the machine I fell 30 feet and I hit the roof and rolled off the roof to the ground and them things just kept coming at me."</p>\n<p>SO THIS FLORIDA MAN...NOT ONLY SURVIVED THE VICIOUS BEE ATTACK...BUT ALSO THE FALL!</p>\n<p>THE REST OF HIS CREW FROM ALL FLORIDA LAND SERVICES...PULLED HIM AWAY FROM THE SWARM...AND RUSHED HIM TO THE HOSPITAL.</p>\n<p>Jon Christian "I had no broken bones no internal bleeding and whatever they treated me with at the hospital it's a miracle because the swelling went away."</p>\n<p>CHRISTIAN SAYS HE'S KNOWN OF HIS BEE ALLERGY SINCE HE WAS A TEEN.</p>\n<p>HE SAYS HE WAS STUNG SOME 120 TIMES...50 OF THEM IN THE HEAD!</p>\n<p>Jon Christian "According to the beehive guy, when he got here to remove them and stuff, he says, he told me so many of these stories end up in tragedy."</p>\n<p>GRANT THOMAS FROM BEEMAN STAN BEE REMOVAL IN POLK COUNTY...</p>\n<p>SAYS HE HE BELIEVES THESE WEREN'T EUROPEAN HONEY BEES THAT NEARLY TOOK CHRISTIAN'S LIFE...</p>\n<p>BUT RATHER THE KILLER KIND!</p>\n<p>(zoom) Grant Thomas/BeeMan Stan Bee Removal</p>\n<p>"Their comb throughout the whole thing was extremely dark in color. There was no honey on it whatsoever. And you know, typically, whenever you get attacked by bees, or I should say, get stung by bees, you've got three or four stings. You don't get hit hundreds of times. And they were just in his hair and just all over him."</p>\n<p>CHRISTIAN SAYS HE'S GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE...</p>\n<p>AND THANKFUL THAT HIS CO-WORKERS QUICKLY REMOVED HIM FROM THE LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION.</p>\n<p>Jon Christian "The doctor said that I either had superhuman strength or I'm the luckiest person in the word, whichever cause it is stop and play the lottery."</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p>CHRISTIAN SAID HE'S ALREADY ORDERED BEE SUITS...</p>\n<p>JUST IN CASE HIS TREE TRIMMING CREW ENCOUNTERS ANOTHER ANGRY SWARM.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>FLORIDA KILLER BEES HIVE</p>\n<p></p>