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Detective Tony Bees on The Job in Bushwick

Famed bee-fighter Tony Bees—that's now Detective Tony Bees Planakis to you and us—was keeping the Summer of Bees alive in Bushwick last night, where he answered the call of Commissioner Kelly's Bee Signal and removed a fooball-sized hornets nest from a yard after two fellow officers and a child were viciously stung by the carnivorous buggers. "Something like this, timing is of an essence. You have to hit them fast and hit them hard. You don't let them know you're there." Our hero. [DNAinfo; previously]