The Queensland Police social media staff have shown before they have a sense of humour (I will try and find one of my favourites and post about it later). Today a broken down truck lost its load onto the road – 2,000L of honey (about 528 gallons).
This is what was posted to the Queensland Police twitter account:
We’re not pollen your leg…in Gympie someone’s spilt around 2,000 litres of honey over Brisbane Road near Noosa Road through Monkland #ohpooh Delays are expected to be short but sweet.
🙂
Do any of your emergency service departments have a sense of humour?
[Humour aside, it’s a terrible loss. Consider the average worker bee only produces 1/12 teaspoons of honey in its lifetime and about 2 million flowers are needed to make 450g (1lb) of honey. (and no, that isn’t a typo – one twelfth!)]
January 11, 2022 at 2:21 am
And you carried that positive attitude forward with the title. Good on you!
January 11, 2022 at 2:08 pm
Haha, couldn’t help myself, Jacqui.
January 11, 2022 at 4:29 am
No, they tried a bit of levity once, but it came out tone deaf, so they put on their serious face.
January 11, 2022 at 2:08 pm
Oh, that’s poor public relations.
January 11, 2022 at 8:14 am
Yeah, that is terrible, but at least the police had fun informing people of the situation.
January 11, 2022 at 2:09 pm
It did make an unfortunate situation funny.
January 12, 2022 at 9:23 am
We’ll have the occasional funny social media post. “Pollen your leg” is pretty good 🙂 I do feel bad for the bees, though!
January 12, 2022 at 5:28 pm
Glad the bees don’t know about it.