Bedbugs discover Victoria's Secret

upi ^ | July 17, 2010

[JoeProBono]

NEW YORK, - The Victoria's Secret store in Manhattan's Lenox Hill neighborhood was shut down for several hours this week after bed bugs were discovered in "isolated areas."

"When we found small, isolated areas that may have been impacted, we immediately took action to resolve the situation," the store's parent company, Limited Brands, said in a statement Friday.

Limited temporarily closed the Upper East Side location after testing all of its Manhattan stores, The New York Daily News reported Saturday.

Bedbug outbreaks were reported earlier this month at a Hollister's store in SoHo and Abercrombie & Fitch's South Street Seaport location, the News said.

[JoeProBono]

[davisfh]

Ah ha!! Now we know Victoria's secret.

[CaptainK]

NY libs are at a rock and a hard place. Use the insecticides they want outlawed or live with the little critters.

In the meantime I’ve advised my hubby and son not to buy clothes in NYC.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I see no need to swim in cesspools.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[USMCPOP]

“... we found small, isolated areas that may have been impacted.”

Sounds more like a case of crabs to me.

[firebrand]

They are now detecting the presence of bedbugs with dogs, but that does not solve the problem. They are toxifying entire buildings. If you refuse to have your apartment toxified, you are then responsible for any infestation that occurs.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The environmental movement has racked up a lot of dubious accomplishments like this - making human habitation safe for vermin, making toilets and showers barely functional, removing easy access to bottled water, insisting that shoppers show up at stores with their own shopping bags.

Environmentalism is a cult in which the cultists - mostly wealthy elites - find salvation by waging a cruel, petty war on the average person's quality of life. Any modern convenience or improvement in sanitation is declared bad for the environment by these fascists, who have no intention of depriving themselves of much greater luxuries while they try to strip the rest of us of every small convenience.

[Yardstick]

I believe you just nailed it.

[Gay State Conservative]

That must have resulted in some fun times in the fitting rooms.

[Gay State Conservative]

Any modern convenience or improvement in sanitation is declared bad for the environment by these fascists, who have no intention of depriving themselves of much greater luxuries while they try to strip the rest of us of every small convenience.

Wait just a cotton picking minute here.Cheryl Crow,you'll recall,just recently called on us all to save the trees by using only one piece of toilet paper per "visit".Reports I've heard indicate that she stinks in such a way as to prove that she's practicing what she preaches.

[cvq3842]

I wonder if there is any connection to illegal immigration also.

[cradle of freedom]

This is what I was thinking as well. The infestation of bed bugs lines up with the illegal immigration invasion and of course it it found mostly in areas where there are large numbers of illegals. We have worked for generations to improve our quality of life and that hard work is being lost as millions of people from third world conditions come into our country. Back in the Ellis Island days immigrants were checked for vermin and communicable diseases. Today anyone can walk in from who knows where bringing in their third world problems with them.

[firebrand]

I think the cheap-hotel industry is responsible. There are now tiny cheap hotels all over my neighborhood that attract the young tourists from everywhere in the world. It has turned the area into a night spot and brought the bugs.

We lost a lot of SROs when the building owners discovered they could make more money as cheap hotels, but there is a price for everything I guess.

[DPMD]

Victoria showed all her secrets long ago.

[La Lydia]

Five or six years ago I was staying in a very nice hotel on Park Avenue. I came back to my room in the middle of the morning to pick up something I had forgotten, and there was an army of uniformed workers with steam machines running around. They had apparently already “done” my room. So I asked one who looked like the foreman (not a hotel employee) what was going on, and he said they were using the steam to eliminate bed bugs in the hotel. As I quietly freaked out, he told me that the guests brought them in in their luggage, mostly, he said, from India and the Middle East, but also the Far East. Turned out he was the owner of this business who making big, big bucks steaming hotels for bedbugs, and was thrilled that use of the chemicals that kill them have been curtailed by the enviros, although the steam isn’t as effective. I did not sleep very well in that hotel, although I didn’t see any bugs, and when I got home I borrowed one of those Shark steam cleaners and blasted my suitcase three times and had all my clothes dry cleaned. Stuff I couldn’t have dry cleaned I just threw away. It was a ghastly experience. So to answer your question, it isn’t just immigration, although that is a part of it.

[AppyPappy]

I used to work in a trucker motel that was a hotbed of prostitution. We used chemicals in the laundry that would eat through your skin.