Pity, that.
Posted on 04/16/2015 8:46:13 AM PDT by martin_fierro
A Long Island man accidentally set his rental car ablaze in an effort to kill bed bugs, police say.
Authorities say 44-year-old Scott Kemery poured rubbing alcohol on the bed bugs because he thought it would do the trick. Then, he lit a cigarette, setting himself and three cars on fire.
"He said he had bedbugs in the car, and someone told him if he saturated them with alcohol, it would kill them," Det. Sgt. Edward Fitzgerald told Newsday. "So he went and bought some alcohol, he poured it all in there and he sat in his car and lit a cigarette.”
Kemery was treated at a local hospital for second-degree burns, but will be OK.
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“Diatomaceous earth (food grade) dispersed as a very fine aerosol;
Amorphous silica gel (CimeXa) also dispersed as an aerosol;”
I’m guessing these just suck the moisture out of the bugs and they are dehydrated to death?
Was he driving a Scooby Van Rental?
Reminds me of the old joke about the treatment kit for pubic lice/crabs that consisted of a razor, lighter fluid, matches, and a toothpick. Instructions were to shave half of the genital area, douse the other side with the lighter fluid, set aflame with the match, and stab the escaping lice with the toothpick.
Diatomaceous earth actually grinds the bugs to death. Bed bugs have an exoskeleton and the fine DE particles work their way in and grind away. DE does work. I got bedbugs from a Marriott Hotel in Cincinnati a couple of years ago while staying on business. Bedbugs live only on human blood. In short, use yourself as bait and make sure the bugs have to crawl through the DE to get to you.
Obama voter and most likely a Hillary voter in the making.
This bedbug pandemic is not funny. If you unknowingly bring bed bugs home from a rental car, a movie theater, a passenger airplane, a hotel, etc. you will be paying hunndreds of dollars to pest control companies forever. You cannot get rid of them. We can all thank illegal immigration and environmental whackos for this.
Pity, that.
No, they got drunk.
Bedbugs deliberately spread the Alcohol story because they are lushes.
Stayed in a "choice" hotel in Okinawa - took me three days to figure out what was up with the little bite marks.
I felt like torching the place, too....
hehehe! very good!
“Trying” hell, he got rid of them.
LOL
Exactly right, a dehydrated bug is a dead bug. Normally they have a thin waxy layer over their exoskeleton. The waxy layer gets stripped off on contact with the silica gel or diatomaceous earth, and they die a horrible death.
Or so I hope. But the only thing that gets vacuumed up is a wispy little husk. And as soon as the new nymph is hatched out of the egg, it also undergoes dehydration, and they are gone.
LOL!
So did it work?
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