[PROCON]

"This is happening globally, and I don't think anybody has figured out exactly why," said Daniel Kass, the city's deputy commissioner for environmental health.

I'm shocked that globalwarming wasn't to blame!

[JPG]

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Bring back DDT

[Dan B Cooper]

In a surprise development, on July 28 the New York City Council and Mayor’s office released the report of the New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board and announced the funding of certain educational components of the board’s recommendations. We at New York vs Bed Bugs are extremely relieved — and hopeful. To be updated. For now, you can download the report: New York City Bed Bug Advisory Report (April 2010).

[taillightchaser]

Well, it’s way past time the government tackled this problem. After all, they are supposed to be taking care of us from the cradle to the grave!!

[Route395]

I’m more concerned about the White House infestation......

[camerongood210]

Bush’s fault

[Paladin2]

Send that turkey Bloomberg to every home for an inspection and fumigation.

[Dilbert56]

My daughters' apartment in Astoria, Queens had bedbugs last year. We ended up losing thousands of dollars - all of their belongings had to be trashed and we moved them into Manhattan.

This is awful for tennants and a no-win for the landlords. The landlord my daughters had was an asshole but even good ones have to spend thousands and another tennant can bring bed bugs back in.

In our daughter's new place in Manhattan, we put Ditomecius (sp) Earth around the baseboards. When the exterminator visited he said that was a good a preventative measure as we could take. As good as anything he had to offer.

Some students from Rutgers came up with a mechanism to spoof bed bugs. Dry ice in a can mounted inside a dog dish. The inside of the dog dish is greased so the bugs can't climb out. As the dry ice vaporizes, it emits CO2 and the bed bugs think it's a human breathing. Come to think of it, Sex Poodle Gore and friends would probably object to using frozen CO2.

My solution? Bed bugs can't survive freezing temperatures. During a freezing cold snap every building in Queens should open all the windows and let the temps plummet (turn the water on a drip so the pipes don't freeze). Two days of that and they'd all be dead.

[OneWingedShark]

BRING BACK DDT!!

[Average Al]

"The bloodsucking pests, which are not known to spread disease but can cause great mental anguish with their persistent and fast-growing infestations, have rapidly multiplied throughout New York and many other U.S. cities in recent years."

I gather they are talking about democrats! ;-)

[LucyT]

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the pests have been discovered in theaters, clothing stores, office buildings, housing projects and posh apartments

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[Yosemitest]

...And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood ...

[Neidermeyer]

[a fool in paradise]

Sex in the City - the reality version.