It Is Generally A Given,

that pets are not allowed in condominiums,

 so it should have come as no surprise that when a couple that owned 10,000 pets was asked to remove them they should comply with the request, but they refused, eventually police were called to a residential building in the coastal city of Ningbo, China, after a couple living there ignored numerous complaints from their neighbours about the thousands of pet bees they kept on their balcony, about a year ago, the unnamed couple installed a small beehive in their high-rise apartment with the intention of using them for “bee sting treatment”, a form of alternative medicine believed to help alleviate the symptoms of painful conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. However, the insects kept breeding and their number swelled to around 10,000, becoming a nuisance to the other residents,

above, one of the hives, photographs by Weibo, “To other residents in the complex, this is a ticking bomb. What happens if someone gets stung, have you thought about that?” a police officer told the wife, but she apparently didn’t think being stung by a bee was a big deal, “Being stung is not a big deal. I’ve been stung a few times, and nothing happened,” the woman reportedly told the officer. “We have grown attached to these bees, we don’t want to move them.” although the couple reportedly regarded the bees as pets, they eventually agreed to move them out of the apartment after being threatened with a fine of between 200 and 500 yuan ($30 and $74), photographs by Ningbo Evening News, I was about to type,'well it could have been worse', but then I could not think of anything worse than living in a building next door to a beekeeper with multiple hives of bees on the balcony!