A 55-year-old maintenance man learned the hard way that shooting at wasps nests isn't the best way to remove the pests.
Rochester police were called about 6:20 a.m. Sunday to the 1400 block of Fourth Avenue Southeast after callers reported a man with a handgun in the area "who might be firing it into the air," said Lt. Jim Evenson.
When officers arrived, they saw a man standing near a storage shed, holding what appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol, the report says. He was ordered to the ground at gunpoint and told to drop his weapon; he hesitated before complying, Evenson said.
Once he was on the ground, it was discovered the weapon was actually an Airsoft gun. The suspect told the officers he was a maintenance man at the apartment complex, and was shooting at wasps nests under the eave of the building.
The man said it was "more fun" than using wasp spray.
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No citation was issued, Evenson said, because the officers felt the incident was "best handled with a warning."
