MANOR, Texas — A Manor man was still recovering Wednesday afternoon after more than 100 bees stung him while trying to cut his daughter's grass last week.
"I'd do it all over again, but I'm not going to go through that alley no more," Simon Porras Jr. told KVUE.
A shed in that alley on East Browning Street and North Lampasas Street was home to about 250,000 bees, according to the Manor Police Department.
"When I looked back, I saw a cloud, a cloud of bees. All of a sudden, I could hear 'em 'bang, bang, bang' on my head," he said.
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Within moments, Porras said the bees stung his head, arms, and torso.
"I had a hat on, so I tried to swap them away. Boy, that didn't do any good," he said.
The bees followed him as he ran from his daughter's house to his home across the street to get help from his wife.
"By that point, I was like, I couldn't breathe. It just shut my throat," he said.
He thought he was going to die.
"I thought I was a goner," Porras said as he held back tears. "Of course, I prepare every day. I've lived a good life. If I would've been gone, I'd been gone."
A bee removal company removed most of the bees on Tuesday, but some of them still remained Wednesday afternoon.
"There's still bees in there," Porras said. "As long as there's bees, I'm not going to mess with it."
The bee colony was likely living in the shed near Porras' daughter's home for at least two years, Manor police said.
Despite so many bee stings, Porras said he spent only a few hours in the hospital.
The MPD shared a video Tuesday of a bee keeper removing the hive.