A few years ago my brother was at work when he took a sip of his root beer. Several bees had crawled into the can when he wasn't looking, and he wound up getting stung several times in the throat.

He dropped the can and grabbed his throat, which got the attention of a coworker. The coworker saw him unable to breathe and holding his throat and assumed he was choking. So he started doing the heimlich maneuver on my brother.

The bee stings made it impossible for my brother to talk, and the coworker was bear-hugging him from behind trying to dislodge an imaginary obstruction from his wind pipe. My brother was flailing his arms at the guy and struggling to get away. The guy read his actions as panic from choking and held on even tighter.

It took them a few minutes to sort out what was going on and my brother had to go to the emergency room for a reaction to the bee stings.

It wasn't funny at the time, but humorous to look back upon.