The Sony lot wasn't the only entertainment industry outpost under siege by a sky-darkening plague of killer bees last week. A copy of an e-mail memo just obtained by Defamer details a warning issued to MTV's staff last Wednesday (a day before the Sony swarm, incidentally) in hopes of avoiding any allergy-related loss of employees:

From: [redacted] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:32 PM To: M_MTVN_LA CC: [redacted] Subject: Bee's nest

Please be advised that there is a bee's nest in the tree on 26th streetoutside the main entrance at 2600. For those of you that are allergic please use extreme caution when walking from 2600 to 1633.
Thank you,
[redacted]

We trust that the threat has long been neutralized and that all MTV workers quickly returned to their day-to-day activities without fear of swarm-induced anaphylactic shock.

Tomorrow in Hollywood PlagueWatch: The Warner Bros. lot experiences intermittent showers of bloody frogs.

• Breaking: Killer Bees Attack Sony! [Defamer]

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