Posted on 07/15/2016 8:59:25 PM PDT by george76
AUGUSTA, Maine —Officials in Maine's capital city say bedbugs were found in three city offices.
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A bedbug-detecting dog confirmed there were bedbugs in that office and in the offices of community services
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Bedbugs had been reported at two privately owned boarding houses in May.
City councilors adopted an emergency law requiring tenants to alert landlords of bed bugs.
Landlords must also give the city a decontamination plan.
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“bed-bug detecting dog”
Do you think the police dogs and fire dogs say, “There but for the grace of Dog go I.”?
Bet they were all Democrats (aka bloodsucking, taxing little pests).
or Somali immigrants ?
That would be my guess. Somali boarders.
Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
Skinnies don’t make much of a meal, so maybe their bedbugs journey from Portland and Lewiston to the big city for some real eatin’?
LOL
What municipal offices do you think might be infested?
I may be wrong but I’m going to guess the places where Somalis go to claim public benefits.
I wonder how you say in Somali arabic, “Meet my little friends!”
;-)
Do flea bombs or foggers get rid of bedbugs as well as fleas?
You couldn’t resist, could you?
Not according to one of those shows I watched on the Geography channel a while back. They are resistant to chemicals. They showed using a gas powered turbo heater and a bunch of duct work (larger version of a dryer vent hose) which they run into your house and bring the temp to about 115 degrees. I have heard the exterminators charge about $6,000 for this. I hope I never have to find out. Any time I have to stay in a hotel I check carefully! I’ve heard they are everywhere now.
People use to lock down these infestations easily with a simple trip to the corner drugstore. Now thanks the the EPA regulations its become an unbearable cost to many victims of these bug ...so they get out of control.
I've been living in the same house since 1956—just 15 miles from the Maine border—and we've got bedbugs here. (Small welts).
Do bedbug-detecting dogs get bedbug bites? ;)
It’s ridiculous that our country is being turned into a third world $h!t hole.
Thank you for a good laugh!!
or Somali immigrants
I think this is one time you can blame it on good old white trash Americans. Augusta Maine is not a Somali resettlement city.
As to the office they were found, yes it was The welfare office. Quite frankly I don’t think if they were in someone else’s office, they would have id them as bedbugs. The staffer knew exactly what it was and put a piece of tape on it so it could be positively id by the exterminating co.
I use to manage an 8 unit apt building here in Portland and had to deal with bedbugs even though we had no section 8 or other subsidized tenants.
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