Posted on 09/19/2010 4:47:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - New York's spreading bedbugs have struck another high-profile Manhattan store, Niketown, Nike announced Saturday.
Nike's flagship store on East 57th Street was forced to close Saturday, the New York Daily News reported.
"Our primary concern is the well-being of our consumers and sales associates," Nike's statement said. "We are taking all proper steps to eradicate the problem and we expect the store to reopen shortly."
The five-story Niketown, with big-name endorsers like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter, sells wares ranging from expensive footwear to headbands to T-shirts.
Before hitting Niketown New York, the insects are known to have bitten into the Empire State Building, the Hollister store in SoHo, the Brooklyn district attorney's office, a Times Square movie theater and the Time Warner Center.
A study by the pest control company Terminix found New York had the nation's worst bedbug infestation.
A little confused the morning? Know where you are? This is FreeRepublic, we didn’t vote for hopey changey.
Hey BL, don’t get your panties in a twist. I wasn’t dissing fine NYC conservatives. I assume you would never vote for Bloomberg or Obama. Right? Not that you have much choice.
I was making a little joke and having some fun.
MY great uncle Meo made some fine pizza right here in Indy.
All of us redneck hilljacks fire up our pickemups and head out of the hollers to some big cities to sit a spell and partake of possum pizza all the time.
“A town full of bedbugs with a cockroach for a mayor.”
Great line...would like you to attend all my soirees! LOL!
Bro, I was only funning with you also. I didn’t take it seriously.
Good on ya!
Beg bugs are difficult and expensive to get rid off. Wonder how Nike got them. Maybe somebody was disgusted with Nike sponsoring the dummy Michael Jordan, the multi-adulterer Tiger Woods, and D. Jeter who cheated in baseball.
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