TW>From: Ted Wout <[log in to unmask]>
  >Date:         Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:37:27 -0400
  >Subject:      Charging for Swarms
 
TW>If you're removing a swarm for a lawyer, give him an itemized bill with a
  >rate of $125 per hour.  Be sure to include the time spent on the phone
  >taking the initial call, the time spent loading your vehicle, time spent
  >driving there and back, time spent hiving the swarm.  Be sure to round up
  >to the nearest 1/4 hour for each item.
 
Hi Ted,
 
When you jack rabbit from a stop sign here in Los Banos, Ca, even if you
are an old widow lady it's $160.00 unless you have three wittiness that
say you stopped and one of those better be a priest. The moral to this
which is no more then another tax is that when I am called by the city
police to pick up a swarm, I insist on $50 per hour, police protection,
barricades, crime scene tap, the whole works, and $1,000,000.00 insurance
to protect me from anyone who gets a bee up his noise and wants to sue
me, paid for by the city. All this has ended the dozens of calls that I
used to get from the police department to pick up swarms. I wish I had
thought of it 30 years ago, I would be a millionaire today.
 
In all other cases if the swarm call is from a reasonable person and its
not 100 miles out of my way I don't charge.
 
                                  ttul Andy-
 
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