Cops: Man Set Rental Car Ablaze While Trying to Kill Bed Bugs

Fox News ^ | 4/16/15

[martin_fierro]

Ow.

[knittnmom]

I need to know - Did it kill the bedbugs, or did they just scamper away? ;-)

[Ingtar]

They hid under a mattress tag, I believe.

[SpaceBar]

Today’s ‘stupid idiot’ news item to brighten everyone’s day.

[ExSoldier]

Darwin Award candidate!

[Jonty30]

That’s pretty much what it takes once you have them.

[Fido969]

Bedbugs in a rental car? Should have burned the thing.

[camle]

hope he had insurance...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Only an honorary candidate as he did not kill himself.

[TheBattman]

Yet another attempt at the “Darwin Award”... What an idiot

[Joe 6-pack]

Those sophisticated New Yorkers are so much smarter than us hicks in fly-over country. I’d have never thought of this!

[ExSoldier]

Oops, I didn't know that it was a requirement that the candidate die. Sorry.

[PGR88]

Anyone who has been bitten by them or has slept in a bed with bedbugs can sympathize with this guy

[Squawk 8888]

You don’t have to die, you just have to remove yourself from the gene pool. Some people have done so in rather painful ways.

[Charles Martel]

The image that the phrase "rental car ablaze" brings to mind...

[Billthedrill]

When I rent a car I like to check the “no bedbugs” box. Sure, it costs a little more, but it’s one of those little luxuries that is worth the price.

[alloysteel]

What does kill bedbugs (though it takes repeated treatments) -

Diatomaceous earth (food grade) dispersed as a very fine aerosol;

Amorphous silica gel (CimeXa) also dispersed as an aerosol;

Sufficient dry heat to kill the eggs, nymphs and adults (high setting on clothes dryer for minimum of an hour);

Or for fast knock-down, spraying with organic pyrethrum spray, which paralyzes the crawling insects and has residual effects for up to a month.

Setting the car on fire is just an overly emotional response.

[Clay Moore]

Shirley, he didn’t fall for the old “how to get rid of crabs” about shaving one side, setting fire to the other side. and stabbing the survivors with an ice pick. -ping-

[Jonty30]

Another thing you can do is to either wrap the legs or bedframe, that touches the floor, in plastic wrap or you can put Vaseline, in generous quantities. As the bed bugs try to climb on you bed, they get caught on the Vaseline and then you can just wipe them clean off and reapply it.

[Calvin Locke]

I saw a report on Canadian TV the other month that some Pakis brought back from their third-world homeland phosphine pellets to deal with bed bugs in their Western-civilized apartment. At least one of their kids died.