Trapped in a chocolate shop? I don’t BEElieve it.

Can you think of anything much better than being trapped in a chocolate shop? Well, unless you’re on a diet at the moment – no, probably not.

Come on! There are much worse places to be trapped aren’t there? The motorway, for example!

Well recently that’s exactly what happened to the staff of a Thorntons chocolate shop in Herefordshire.

Noticing some bees around the shop entrance, they closed the door to stop them coming in and suddenly found themselves incarcerated in their delicious store when a whole swarm of bees landed on and around the door.

“It was like something from a horror film,” an employee explained, “one minute the sky was clear and then suddenly there was a cloud of black and yellow coming straight for us.”

It took them two and a half hours to rid themselves of the bees with the help of a beekeeper.

Apparently the queen bee had been expelled from her hive by a younger female bee, and most of her loyal courtiers had flown off with her to act as royal bodyguards.

It must have been a relatively frightening experience, but we can’t help but feel a little less sorry for them because of their location at the time.

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