The moral of the story is: Don’t bother the bees.

A swarm of 120,000 angry bees – dislodged from their humongous hive when kids pelted it with rocks – held residents of a Southern California apartment building hostage, authorities said.

Several people, including firefighters, news reporters and a TV cameraman, reported being stung and at least two people were taken to a hospital with multiple stings, after the 500-pound hive was broken in Santa Ana.

Firefighters had to cordon off a four-block area before the bees calmed down and returned to their hive.

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Ed Charron let his fingers do more than walking.

The 69-year-old Oregon man reclaimed his title as world champion phone-book ripper by tearing through 30 Portland directories in three minutes.

Charon lost his title two years ago when Mike West, a judo instructor from Indiana, ripped through 30 phone books.

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Geana Morris, of Wynnewood, Pa., is seeing double after delivering two sets of identical twins – two boys and two girls.

Dr. Andrew Gerson, who delivered the babies, put the odds of such an occurrence at about one in 1 million quadruplet births.

Firstborn James Russell weighed 3 pounds; Robert Wayne, 3 pounds, 11 ounces; Anna Rose, 3 pounds, 9 ounces; and Ella Kathleen, 2 pounds, 7 ounces.

Morris, who is also a twin, delivered on her own 34th birthday.

“It’s a very special birthday for me,” she said.

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Get a burro.

Officials in the Portuguese city of Viana do Castelo wanted to show how congested local traffic was, so they ran a mile-plus race between a Porsche and a donkey.

The donkey, a 7-year-old named Tironi, won.

“It looks like to get around Viana do Castelo we have to go back in time,” said City Councilor Antonio José Amaral.

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By jiminy, they like to wager in Hong Kong.

More than a hundred men were busted for betting on cricket fights – and now each faces up to three months in jail.

Police seized about 300 crickets and $1,025 in cash during the bust.