Man destroys yellow jacket nest on his house with only his bare hands

Society idolizes men like Chuck Norris. Ass-kickers like Jack Bauer from 24. But in reality, this man with a ladder and his bare hands might be the toughest dude on the planet. This one-minute video shows him taking care of a yellow jacket nest under the eave of his house by simply plucking the thing off the structure and crushing it with his hands.

There’s no real explanation of how to achieve this feat other than “go up the ladder” and “I’ll arrrgh every last one ... .” That’s all it takes. It would be easy to get skeptical about this kind of video on the internet, but if you look at the end, his hands are twitching like he’s been stung a hundred times trying to get this off the house.

This man is my personal hero because the last time I tried to take care of a yellow jacket nest, it ended in disaster. These jerk bugs had built a nest in the ground under my little brother’s play equipment, and my dad had this bright idea when I was 16 that he needed to pour gasoline on the nest while I sucked up the escaping yellow jackets — which would presumably die inside the vacuum.

After filling the shop vac with gasoline and gas fumes, the yellow jackets started pouring out of the nest and surrounding the tip of the vacuum — so I ran. It stretched the extension cord, unplugging the shop vac and causing a spark, which ignited the gasoline and shot a huge ball of flame into the air. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but the smell of hundreds of burnt bugs is still seared in my mind to this day.

That’s my long-winded way of appreciating what a badass this man is.

h/t Reddit