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If you’ve been trolling the Internet for any period of time, you’ve probably seen a couple of weird competitions: Dwarf Tossing, Beard and Moustache Championships, Black Pudding Throwing, and World’s Ugliest Dog Championships, among others. Joining the ranks of these bizarre competitions is Clovermead Bees & Honey, Bee Beard Competition at Ontario, Canada.

In case you haven’t seen a bee beard before and in case you have no idea what the competition is all about, here’s a picture of contestant Tibor Szabo:

Yes, in this competition, you have to get several hundred of the stingy critters to crawl all over you. This practice is said to have started in the 1700s when one English beekeeper tied the queen bee to thread around his neck and made a beard of bees. Nowadays, the queen is kept in a small plastic cage and tied around the person’s neck. The honey bees smell their queen and they huddle around her, thus creating the weirdest fashion statement ever.

via [ Daily Mail ]