This is true, but, ummm, I’d be afraid of getting stung… well… you know… heh… 
If they’re swarming you, ultimately they’ll get you there anyway (and trust me…once they get trapped inside your clothes they get REALLY P.O.'ed)
Redwolf
If you are in Michigan, then you are experiencing this beast:
Eastern yellow jacket (ground-nesting yellow jacket) Vespula maculifrons.
They are intrusive this time of year because they have run out of their usual prey (insect larvae).
You can try to run from them, but when I did that, they chased me. The swarm formed into the shape of an electric drill and stung/drilled me in the hinder. Then, they made the shape of a big hammer and bonk! right on the noggin’!
My advice is to not run and turn off the television!
T
Regional difference: I had never heard yellowjackets being referred to as hornets here in Calaforny. Usually it refers to some kind of very large wasp.
As for tearing off yer clothes, wow. That doesn’t sound like a solution at all, especially for a dude. Yellowjackets eat meat, and wherever your thinnest skin is tends to be on the menu. Learned this at a clothing-optional beach a zillion years ago in the groovy early 70s..
These are ground nesting hornets or wasps and are particularly nasty. Have been massively stung buy them while digging hiking trails in the Cascades. They are the ones the forest fire fighters run into - usually pissed off by the smoke - and the fighters get 350 stings.
I know only one instance of an Irish Flutist peeing into a stump containing these at a music camp happy hour. He fled the bees through the croud of people and several received dozens of stings. A few of the musicians almost had to be put down, an honor usually only reserved for tardy Bodhran players. I fortunately was not there nor do I play that drum. The flute player got stung all over his head and looked like a character out of one of the Star Wars movies.
i played at an outdoor music festival attended by some of these same little critters.
(or the variety that you find in the n.e. u.s.)
anyway, the folks from the courtesy tent came over with some drinks for the band, water and juice.
so these guys were buzzing around during our set doing their thing and at the end i took a drink from a can that had something called “ruby red” and noticed a curious sensation on my bottom lip that started tingling then started burning.
yep. one of yellow jackets had crawled in to have a drink, probably got high on the sugar and cooled down enough to sting me only twice.
i haven’t had ruby red since.
I like the yellowjackets, we have all of their albums, you can order most of them from the buzz store. 
ouch! it stung me!