And in the Band Your Head News:

[Vladimir]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213950,00.html

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian man died after being stung by a swarm of hornets as he tried to remove a pair of nests at the top of a structure containing the ashes of his ancestors, a police officer said Friday.

Tit Sovanna, a 47-year-old teacher in Svay Rieng province in southeastern Cambodia, died Wednesday shortly after being stung all over his body, said So Sikhan, a district police chief.

The man had climbed the stupa, or Buddhist reliquary, using a stick to try to knock down two nests so his relatives could organize a ceremony for the ancestors as part of a traditional ritual known as Festival for the Dead.

I guess the festival just got a little bigger.

[Hepcat]

That is very sad, though surely you would seek a professional to do it, wouldn't you?

[whyidie]

That is very sad, though surely you would seek a professional to do it, wouldn't you?

I don't think they have professional pest control in Cambodia. If it wasn't a sacred statue I would have thrown rocks. Not having rocks available I would have elected someone to go up there with a stick. Someone like Tit Sovanna.

RIP Tit.