( CNN ) -- 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 . `` I was told that usually when a truck starts moving , the bees will follow behind . '' Wrong . Jennifer Keller , who assisted Heatherly , said the leftover bees were likely drawn to the light color of the Dodge . The insects spent the next three hours crawling over the vehicle , especially on the trunk and side panels . `` At some point , it was hard to see out of the windows , '' said Jenkins . Heatherly , a hobbyist , and Keller , a honeybee technician at North Carolina State University , went to work . `` They got a little testy , '' said Heatherly who , like Keller , was not wearing a protective body suit . They used smoke on the bees , which Keller says `` masks their communication , '' and a spray bottle of sugar water . The sticky mix makes it harder for the bees to fly and they concentrate on grooming themselves rather than attacking humans . At some point , Jenkins was advised to drive his patrol car some distance to blow the bees off . But that did n't work . Eventually , the beekeepers brushed the bees onto a piece of plastic and then into a hive box . Keller and Heatherly between them were stung only three or four times . Jenkins said about six bees got in his patrol car . He dispatched a couple when `` they got too close to my personal space . '' Tuesday 's incident was an unusual demonstration of how bees stick together . `` They pull together as a unit , '' said Keller . `` As a whole , they are quite amazing . ''
North Carolina deputy spent two days in car because of bees . Two beekeepers came to his aid , using honey and sugar water . Wake County deputy : ` ` At some point , it was hard to see out of the window '' Eventually , nearly 50,000 bees were put into hive box .