Police interview woman in bee costume accused of graffiti / LJWorld.com

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KU police say a female in a bee costume threw yellow paint on a campus building. The crime happened Tuesday morning at the Watkins Home.

By Jesse Fray

November 6, 2008

Kansas University police captured a bee suspected of spraying her "pollen" on a campus building.

The costumed female threw yellow paint on the front of Watkins Home, 1540 Sunflower Road, a KU Public Safety Office report said.

The alleged crime happened between 10:45 a.m. and 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, the report said. The graffiti damage was reported to police around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"We found that person and they've been interviewed," said KU police Capt. Schuyler Bailey. "They were not arrested."

Bailey said he wasn't sure why the suspect was dressed like a bee.

The paint was power-washed off the building, which is used by KU's School of Social Welfare for several programs. The stone building was built in 1937.

On Monday, someone reported graffiti at Memorial Stadium. Police said an unknown suspect painted a mural on the side of the football stadium, at 11th and Maine Streets. The criminal damage occurred sometime before 11 p.m. Oct. 12, a police report said.

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6 November 2008
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alm77 (Anonymous) says…

Very buzzzzzzzzzare.
6 November 2008
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…

Was this part of a sting operation????
6 November 2008
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KUweatherman (Curtis Lange) says…

Hopefully she apollengized.
6 November 2008
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foodboy (Anonymous) says…

This story gives me hives. She could have been looking for Sarah Pollen.
6 November 2008
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Raider (Anonymous) says…

Just beeee happy she didn't spray your house.
6 November 2008
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leadstone (Anonymous) says…

Maybee, she was only Blind and thought she was in a Melon patch.
6 November 2008
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ksdivakat (Anonymous) says…

or maybe its not any of our beezwhacks!! LOL

6 November 2008
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Keith (Anonymous) says…

I've seen her confession, it says:”all i can sayis that my life is pretty plaini like watchin' the puddlesgather rainand all I can dois just pour some tea for twoand speak my point of viewbut it's not sane, its not sane”
6 November 2008
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Luxor (Anonymous) says…

What a buzz kill.
6 November 2008
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thetagger (Anonymous) says…

This has to bee the best Discussion ever!Ralph: It says 'bee' and there's a picture of a bee on it!
6 November 2008
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The_Original_Bob (Anonymous) says…

Nice to know that even when LSD availability is at a low across this great country, Lawrence still is in the supply line.
6 November 2008
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dawn (Anonymous) says…

I'd heard that there was some sort of problem about bees lately— some scarcity. Maybe a big problem down the road with pollination. Maybe this story is really important. More important than anyone can guess. Maybe this woman is doing important work, saving plants, saving the planet. Maybe she's a hero.
6 November 2008
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kansas_o_kansas (Anonymous) says…

I love this town…
6 November 2008
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oscarfactor (Anonymous) says…

Dawn, that is quite a stinging rebuke.
6 November 2008
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cloggedjhawk (Wendy magillicutty) says…

Can it bee?

6 November 2008
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Luxor (Anonymous) says…

Let it bee.
6 November 2008
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S0uPnAzi (Anonymous) says…

I think Dawn has a bee in her bonnet!
6 November 2008
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wysiwyg69 (Anonymous) says…

buzz off
6 November 2008
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Quigly (Anonymous) says…

Now that's news. HEE
6 November 2008
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bolshavik_vw (Anonymous) says…

gee I wonder if she buzzed into Steak N Shake and hit the bathroom stall in the Menzz room. HMMM shes been buzzzzzzzzzin somewhere along.
6 November 2008
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…

That would be the bee's knees!
6 November 2008
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otto (Anonymous) says…

I think she's just crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy!
6 November 2008
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LooPerkinsucks (Anonymous) says…

It would have been a lot funnier if it was someone dressed as a giant dildo spraying white paint on the frat houses.

6 November 2008
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eel (Anonymous) says…

LooPerkinsucks (Anonymous) says: It would have been a lot funnier if ….she was tazzzzzed
6 November 2008
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midwestmom (Anonymous) says…

Dawn,Did the KU police finish their interview with you already?!!
6 November 2008
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SofaKing (Anonymous) says…

Ask your doctor about Nasonex.
6 November 2008
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tangential_reasoners_anonymous (Anonymous) says…

Killer!
6 November 2008
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Dani (Anonymous) says…

This board has to be the greatest collection of bee puns ever compiled.
6 November 2008
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Zype (Anonymous) says…

This has got to be the biggest collection of lame jokes.Seriously.
6 November 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…

darn it..I got in late on this one. What's the buzz, tell me whats happening. What's the buzz, tell me whats happening.. Could this bizzzzare behavior be a rezzult of hive collapse? Or dozzes she have some hateful grudge against the school of soczzzzietal welfare?? She had been hit with insectizzzzzzide..confuzzzed..she meant to hit Dyche Hall. a lost and wayward queen trying to make her own colony.
6 November 2008
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foodboy (Anonymous) says…

I heard she was upset when the cop said “come here honey”. You have to admit there have been some great bee lines.

6 November 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…

hawk said, damage her honey comb..that is funny. but so is all the rest of this one..good thing bees don't make cheese.
6 November 2008
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thebcman (Anonymous) says…

I'm actually more interested in the alleged “mural” being painted on the football stadium. Anybody got pictures?
6 November 2008
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thebcman (Anonymous) says…

I wonder if the bee lady had any connecton to this ..http://www.kansan.com/stories/2008/nov/04/important_pollinators/
6 November 2008
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jcantspell (Anonymous) says…

Next time you're on campus…beeware!
6 November 2008
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somebodynew (Anonymous) says…

SofaKing - are you the same as the one on CJ ??? I lurk and post there also (under a different name). Just wondering ???
6 November 2008
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…

\and the sad end to this saga: she went to all this trouble to put on a silly costume, deface KU property, and the paper *doesn't print what she's protesting!* all we know is now the university has a bug up its butt. besides, that's a weird target for defacement? is she: opposing some aspect of education in the school of social work; when she was arrested, did they ask her “honey, how do you feel about that?” was she protesting residence halls, and the swarm mentality they promote? was she protesting against the space time continuum and somehow it has a vortex in KU's school of social work? or, was she protesting the black helicopters? no, we don't know, the newspaper just drones on about the crime, and doesn't give us the point!
6 November 2008
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imagold (Anonymous) says…

I saw this gal in the bee costume walking down Jayhawk Boulevard carrying what looked to be a container of yellow tempra paint. She stopped at a sign near a parking spot and then at a Kansan paper display box and tore off a piece of a page of the Kansan. She then buzzed on down the sidewalk. It was quite the outfit, complete with what looked like Ugg boots. Afterall, even the queen bee wants to dress in style. (You guys were awesome with the bee puns. I can't think of any to add, so I won't drone on.)
6 November 2008
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dontcallmedan (Anonymous) says…

Clearly, she was starring in some kind of bee movie. I would be looking for other suspects. Perhaps a film student attempting to get a bee-sss degree. Was there a hidden camera shooting bee roll?

7 November 2008
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…

Another somewhat poorly worded headline from the LJW. Were the police wearing bee costumes when they interviewed the woman? Was the costume accused of spraying graffiti?Okay, I'm beeing overly picky. But if they were interviewing a woman who was wearing a bee costume at the time of the questioning, how the he__ many questions did they really need to ask? Were they afraid they might have had the wrong woman in a bee costume carrying a spray can?!?
7 November 2008
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Danimal (Anonymous) says…

So why didn't they arrest her? Was it her whimsical attire? If she would've spray painted the Campanile would they have let her walk? I just don't get this town sometimes.
7 November 2008
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justtired (Anonymous) says…

i wonder if the honey combed her hair for the mugshot
7 November 2008
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jaywalker (Anonymous) says…

When did 'graffiti' become a verb?
8 November 2008
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kuslaves (Anonymous) says…

I also saw this girl /bee walking JayHawk Boulevard. She was acting real fruity. I would guess that her mental mindset is what probably set her free.And why not, especially when worse is done by people who actually know better sober, or when alcohol is involved?At KU, minor vandalism like this = job security for the guy running the power washer.
16 November 2008
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dawn (Anonymous) says…

Save the world! Pollinate! They've killed all the bees. It's up to us now. Rise up, Lawrence! Get on those bee outfits. Grab those spray guns. Join us! Pollinate like your life depends on it!! Say it after me: “buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!” Pollinate, damn it!
16 November 2008
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…

Dawn,I'm just now reading this thread at all.Sorry they didn't get your humor in your earlier post.I got a good laugh. That was good.Someone needed to cross pollinate this to the OTS thread..there would have been a swarm of comments.And somebody tell me why it's pollen, but pollinate?
16 November 2008
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misplacedcheesehead (Anonymous) says…

To Bee or not to bee, that is the question…To bee is to do….Do-bee-do-bee-do..la la la la la, do-bee-do-bee-doPerhaps she was promoting a comeback by the Doobee Brothers…

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AriLynne (Anonymous) says…

To you so obviously ignorant people, she got drugged by some psycho that was stalking her the entire semester. She splatter painted O's on the sidewalk for Obama with tempra paint, hardly “grafiti” since it would've been washed off with the next rain. And the Ugg boots you were talking about were paisley rain boots bought by her little sister. The guy that drugged her still walks around probably doing the same thing to another girl that was mistakenly too nice to him. Clearly to you people it's a much worse crime to paint almost unnoticable dots on sidewalks than drugging, stalking, and attempting to rape young women since the guy has had no consequences whatsoever. Lawrence seems to have some really delightful people.