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Family Finds TV Full of Dead Roaches
The News-Dispatch ^ | 3/21/2009 | Deborah Sederberg

Posted on 03/22/2009 3:52:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Used set was purchased from Rent-A-Center.

When Joseph and Jyll Anderson purchased a used 62-inch flat-screen digital light projection television March 13, they knew it had been sold as-is.

They understood that whether it worked for a week or for 10 years, the seller, Rent-A-Center, 1411 Franklin St., had no responsibility for it once sold.

Never in their wildest imagination, however, did the Andersons expect the chassis of their new television to be filled with the carcasses of dead cockroaches.

That's what they found upon opening it to see why it smelled bad when turned on.

Rent-A-Center's sales manager Edwin Rivera said his company is not legally responsible for returning the $700 the Andersons paid for the TV, when The News-Dispatch called Friday. Nonetheless, he said, "They will get their $700 back."

But the couple also wanted Rent-A-Center to pay for having their house on Country Road 400 West inspected and treated by a reputable pest control company.

Rivera said he could not authorize that expense but he was talking with his regional manager. By 1 p.m. Friday, a Rent-A-Center representative called Anderson to say the company also will pay for the house to be treated.

"The woman who called was very nice," Jyll Anderson said. The refund on the TV and treating her house make her happy, she said. "That's all I really wanted."

Rivera got the TV from a store in Rensselaer, Ind., he said. Since most of the items he rents have been used by other families, he sanitizes them with a spray. "But we can't do that with laptops or televisions," he said.

Still, a TV full of bugs?

"I want this thing out of here," Jyll said Friday morning after calling the newspapers. The Andersons have three children, Emily, 3 years, Joseph, 1 1/2 years and Elizabeth, age 7 1/2 months. "Elizabeth naturally crawls," her mom said. "She's curious about everything she sees."

The living room carpeting in the Anderson home is spotless, but Jyll worries because roaches are notoriously efficient breeders. In addition to the dead bugs, the TV is infested with what appear to be egg sacs. "I'm afraid they're going to break and then we'll have roaches everywhere," Jyll said.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, roaches not only carry disease (including food poisoning), but they and their droppings can trigger asthma attacks.

She said she appreciates Rivera's efforts to get the matter settled.


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1 posted on 03/22/2009 3:52:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What did they expect from a USED set at rentacenter?


2 posted on 03/22/2009 3:54:37 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Sounds like Rent-A-Center is doing everything one could reasonably expect.

Still, YUCK!


3 posted on 03/22/2009 3:55:15 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 62 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: nickcarraway

No such thing as Caveat Emptor in the 0bama age. Free Mortgages and Fumigations for all!


4 posted on 03/22/2009 3:56:01 PM PDT by omega4179 (Don't spread my wealth, spread my work ethic.)
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To: nickcarraway

Like they say, the only GOOD roach is dead or smoked!


5 posted on 03/22/2009 3:57:59 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: nickcarraway

The prior owners could afford a 62-inch flat-screen digital light projection television but could’nt afford a can of Raid?


6 posted on 03/22/2009 3:59:29 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: nickcarraway

must’ve been used to watch msnbc...


7 posted on 03/22/2009 4:00:34 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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The bugs like electronics. I’ve even seen a computer full of moth cocoons, and another that failed due to rodent urine. A tv from a rental place that was full of roaches doesn’t surprise me. What would be surprising would be if they were all dead. Either the rental place hosed it down on the inside with spray, or those people have also inherited house guests. Either way, I imagine that was the whole reason for selling it. It stunk due to dead roaches and/or bug spray.


8 posted on 03/22/2009 4:01:58 PM PDT by kenth (Obama - One Big Ass Mistake, America)
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To: nickcarraway

Every time my tv tunes in MSNBC it seems to be full of live roaches..And Rats.


9 posted on 03/22/2009 4:02:40 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Two weeks ago I was in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. The RAC there had an ad in a window that said they were selling used mattress and box spring sets. Gross.

Last I knew that was against the law in MA. Plus, why the hell would anyone buy a used mattress set? Folks offer them on Craigslist for free.


10 posted on 03/22/2009 4:04:59 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.")
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Family Finds TV Full of Dead Roaches

That's modern day Hollywood for ya'.

11 posted on 03/22/2009 4:06:39 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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“The Andersons have three children, Emily, 3 years, Joseph, 1 1/2 years and Elizabeth, age 7 1/2 months.”

She must do all her T.V. watching on her back...

“The living room carpeting in the Anderson home is spotless, but Jyll worries because roaches are notoriously efficient breeders.”

She should talk...


12 posted on 03/22/2009 4:12:53 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: nickcarraway

That right there, that’s what they call symbolism: Television, full of roaches.


13 posted on 03/22/2009 4:15:30 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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Uh, eeeew.


14 posted on 03/22/2009 4:21:51 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: kenth

I used to repair electronics.
Seen many TVs with cockroach carcasses.
Also VCRs with mice nests, the flap acts as their front door.


15 posted on 03/22/2009 4:24:16 PM PDT by kanawa
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Roach Motel ?!


16 posted on 03/22/2009 5:01:00 PM PDT by njslim
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To: nickcarraway

A long time ago I worked two jobs - one of them was delivery for a local pizza company. My last stop of the night was at a house in a minority neighborhood. They asked if I could take the pizza to the room around the corner to the disabled man who ordered it. The hallway was dark, and I could swear something was moving on the floor. When I got to the room and the light was turned on, the entire floor and the walls were crawling with roaches, and the man was lying on the bed watching TV. The BED was crawling with roaches.

I got the hell out of there so fast all they saw was a blur. I steamed my shoes and washed my clothes immediately. It was the grossest thing I’ve ever seen.


17 posted on 03/22/2009 5:12:03 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (FOBO)
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To: GOPsterinMA

This is the week for quarterly bulk trash pickup in Phoenix.
The neighbors put out two old mattresses, broken wooden chairs and various junk. After 3-days, someone took the used mattresses but left the wooden stuff. Yuck!


18 posted on 03/22/2009 5:41:36 PM PDT by donna (Sarah Palin: "...all of us, who consider ourselves progressive...")
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To: Petronski
That right there, that’s what they call symbolism: Television, full of roaches.
Dead roaches at that. What could be toxic enough to kill a cock roach?
19 posted on 03/22/2009 5:49:44 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: donna

Yuck is right. On the other hand, if someone needed a set, they got one. Better than buying a used set I suppose.


20 posted on 03/22/2009 5:55:10 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.")
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