05-03-06: All he was trying to do was bring home a baby bumble bee.

Won’t the aldermen be so proud of him?

Well … may-bee.

At an Evanston Human Services Committee meeting Monday night, aldermen bumbled around for a time before deciding to postpone a decision on whether to ban beekeeping in the city.

A 14-year-old beekeeper backed by a petition buzzing with a swarm of signatures spoke at the meeting to support his right to keep the insects.

Aldermen decided they didn’t have enough information to make a decision.

But really, beekeeping. How many beekeepers are there in Evanston? That our lawmakers even considered this at all is, frankly, un-bee-lievable.

Then again, welcome to Evanston, a veritable hive of ridiculous regulations. Comb through the Evanston city code and you’ll find ordinances that should have been swatted down before ever seeing a vote.

Did you know you can’t spit on sidewalks here? Or hold a seance? And here’s one that applies to your everyday life — you can’t give away vertebrate animals as part of a business deal (jellyfish are apparently OK).

Our fine city seems to have a bee in its bonnet about weird laws — we’ve passed a few that should have seen a buzz cut before hitting the ink.