Backyard honey bee keeping

As long as you don't get the African killer bees, it shouldn't be a problem. Most bees are more passive than you think.
Once a long while ago when I was a kid, they sprayed some pesticide in our school. Lots of bees fell to the ground, and I picked a lot of them up and relocate them to where they couldn't be stepped on. It was only on the 10th or 11th, I was stung! The other bees didn't even bother me while in my hands. I was getting too overconfident after the fact the other bees didn't sting me.