Tuesday was anything but a routine day for Deputy Brandon Jenkins, who spent three hours in his patrol car after nearly 50,000 honeybees decided to park on it.

The Wake County Sheriff's Office officer had responded around 9:40 a.m. to a call of a person possibly being attacked by bees. He found a disabled truck on U.S. 64 a few miles east of Raleigh, North Carolina. Behind it was a trailer holding 60 boxes of bees.

The truck driver, who was headed for Rocky Mount, had been hauling the bees at night, when they are quiet and not apt to fly. He spent a couple hours after daybreak trying to get someone to tow the trailer and his truck.

That's when Jenkins, 31, pulled up 50 yards behind in his Dodge Charger. By then, the day was beginning to warm.

"The bees were hot and bothered," said Charles Heatherly, one of two beekeepers who later swarmed to Jenkins' assistance. It was not clear how the bees got away from the truck, but a lid from one box was seen on the side of the road.

"It was mind-boggling how many bees were out there," Jenkins told CNN. Eventually, the vehicles were towed off, leaving him still in his Dodge.

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