Bugs in yo' Face???

**Twitch** · 10-18-2006 10:29 AM

yea, so last week me and my friends were cruising and bombin some hills, (by the way i have sort of medium-long hair, and it's longer in the front)

so my hair blows back off my fore-head when i'm ridin at a decent speed, and suddenly i feel a bug smack my hair...it keeps trying to climb out but it is all tangled up, so i slow down and i stop, and the bug flys off

then a couple of days before that, my friend chris got hit in the forehead with a bug when he was bombing a hill, and he said it just exploded everywhere...which is pretty nasty

anyways

post up some of your stories of eating bugs or hitting bugs when you were ridin your board

**peterwilliams** · 10-18-2006 11:23 AM

we dont have bugs in bellingham.

**worldwide** · 10-18-2006 11:24 AM

i got hit in the eye with a bee once.

also last year we had a crazy surge in the number of flying ants, only for a week or so it was very strange, i got hit with a bunch of those

**Andrew in Ontario** · 10-18-2006 11:27 AM

i was bombing a hill and hit a bee too. it bounced of the lense of my glasses and its stinger grazed my cheek (still felt like i got stung right under my eye but didnt last as long as a full-out sting would have.)

**pavedwave** · 10-18-2006 11:39 AM

the most wicked thing that happened a month ago was when I thought something had hit my head through one of my helmet holes, but it wasn't very hard, so I didn't think much of it at the time. then about 5 minutes later, I felt this big bead of SWEAT rolling across my forehead toward my ear, then it got close to my ear and I brushed it a couple times, then the sweat bead went over my ear and down my neck, but then back UP into my helmet... when the sweat started defying gravity, I knew something was ...not good.

stopped, took off my lid, and there was a big-ass yellow jacket!! little dude was crawling around on my head for quite a while.

**Circa** · 10-18-2006 11:41 AM

I swallowed a couple of what I think could have been flies a couple times while bombing up north. I guess the trick was to keep your mouth closed. It was early spring and you'd get swarms of deerflies and mosquitos following you until you hit enough speed to shake em off. But then everytime you stopped they'd eat you alive.

**DEAthBYNoseRIDe** · 10-18-2006 01:46 PM

i was crusing one time and i guess i went though a swarm of nats because i was wiping them out of my eyes for a while

**bpz** · 10-18-2006 02:12 PM

I don't get hit in the face when I'm wearing my helmet:

8)

**LawlessPat** · 10-18-2006 02:35 PM

I was pushing around campus like two or three weeks ago when a bee flew into my mouth and stung my lower lip...I'll punch every bee in the face...

**dragonfly67** · 10-18-2006 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by pavedwave

and there was a big-ass yellow jacket!!

i had the yellow jacket incident as well, but a) twas riding me bike and b) it was not so benign as your wee friend who was happy to just chill on yer noggin. i was innocently cycling along, enjoying a fine summer's afty when i felt awful pain in my chest, and again..i am transitioning fast from spooked to bemused to outright panicked. hurtle off bike in middle of road (happily a quiet side road) and pain is continuing. i clutch at my chest only to find me shirt is undulating (and there is no breeze) and now i am standing still i can feel movement on my skin. i start manically grasping at the fabric, slapping myself on the chest (one can only wonder what any onlookers from nearby houses thought..probably oh look, it's linda blair on OUR little street WoW! ) pretty soon my hair has been freed from clasps and has become a brown toranado around my face, as i flail in now sheer terror..specs have flown off into some bushes. finally i catch the bastard and squeeze for all i'm worth. and next i'm standing in the road, shaking, panting (still not really sure what has happened) and i slowly turn my shirt inside out and see the rear end of a jellow jacket still quivering in its death throes. it was dead, but i still plonked it on the ground and stomped on it about 100 times, spun my heel on it and eventually it was as one with the pavement. i felt marginally better. but i was stung many times, & the most painful part was where it had managed to drag the stinger across the skin trying to find a way out. i did not like wasps before this, now i hate them with a passion. and don't post replies about how they pollinate flowers and fruit and stuff. i don't care. cute fuzzy bees do that (i suppose lawlesspat holds no love of bees, but he can have his own apiary hate club). we don't need wasps and yellow jackets. they should be banned. because they are evil. pure concentrated evil. the source of not good times. baking soda helped tho..i can recommend that.

**snwskate93** · 10-18-2006 03:59 PM

why the hell is ur hair longer in the front???

**Anton Milioti** · 10-18-2006 04:19 PM

i was goin fast and then a really fat fly hit me in my open eye. it stung really bad and i couldn't see. (its like someone poking you in the eye really hard). isince i couldn't see i didn't notice the rock in front of me. my flashbacks went to a dead stop when they hit it and i went flying off and spreining my wrsit. the only flys i like are the wheels

**snwskate93** · 10-18-2006 04:38 PM

haha....one time my friend was bombing a hill.....he apparently startled some of the near by sparrows in a bush......one of the sparrows flew out of the shrubbery and hit him in the face....

**Twitch** · 10-18-2006 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by snwskate93

why the hell is ur hair longer in the front???

i meant i just kind of have like..shaggy hair all over...not like extremely longer, i couldn't think of a way to put it

**snwskate93** · 10-18-2006 06:00 PM

k i thought u ment like u could have a pony tail hanging in front of ur face

**broken only once** · 10-18-2006 06:01 PM

Mine is shorter in the front and looooong out back. I'm bringing back the 80s, mullet style. I think of emo as reverse mullet, long out front and like shaved (wtf?) out back. Jokes, I know what yall are saying..

But my worst was I was taking a medium-large hill on my LBL 56, about at the limit of size hill for such a flexible board on Originals. Anyways going down the hill I have to get out of the way for cars in both lanes, and duck under an overhanging crape myrtle. And from within the crape myrtle, came a bee that decided that my eye was a threat and thus stung it. Fortunately it was soft enough that the stinger didnt lodge and cause major swelling. But boy did it hurt. And damn, it made finishing the hill off downright ridiculous what with the partial blindness and pain and such.

**bola101** · 10-18-2006 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by snwskate93

k i thought u ment like u could have a pony tail hanging in front of ur face

whats weird about having a ponytail hanging in the front of you face?

**Twitch** · 10-18-2006 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by bola101

whats weird about having a ponytail hanging in the front of you face?

nothing...if you are a horse Proctologist

**mangels** · 10-19-2006 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by broken only once

Mine is shorter in the front and looooong out back. I'm bringing back the 80s, mullet style. I think of emo as reverse mullet, long out front and like shaved (wtf?) out back. Jokes, I know what yall are saying...

Mullets rock. I was finally shamed into cutting mine a few years back. But dang ... I looked good in mine.