US beekeeper Wallace Leatherwood put his buzzing cargo above his own safety when he decided to drive 65 kilometres with 3,000 escaped bees in his truck cabin.
"The girls are out. We got a problem," Mr Leatherwood says on a video he recorded during the journey.
Mr Leatherwood had just picked up the boxes of bees and was taking them to his home in Waynesville, North Carolina when they got out.
"I didn't have any shady place to sit them," Mr Leatherwood told local news station WLOS-13.
"When I came out, [one of the boxes] was black with bees, and there were bees everywhere. I thought, well, I don't know what to do.
"I didn't want to lose my bees. They were $US165 [per box]."
Another man Brandon Singleton, stunned at the scene, also filmed Mr Leatherwood's truck from the safety of outside the vehicle.
"This fool has got bees in his damned truck turned loose," Mr Singleton says in the video.
Amazingly, Mr Leatherwood was not stung during the trip, but did get a few stings when he was moving the bees out of the truck.
