Posted on 12/11/2014 2:38:14 PM PST by dennisw
You don't need a bed to have a bedbug problem. A librarian could tell you that, especially if the librarian works at the Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library, which has been closed since Thursday to combat an infestation there. Patrons at the public computer terminals there started complaining they were being bitten.
Bedbugs have infested libraries throughout the country, to the point some even use bedbug-sniffing dogs to track down potential problems. The reason: there are so many people spending time in the buildings, it's easy for someone to unknowingly carry in the bugs on their clothing from an infested home. The bugs can also come into libraries in the binding of books returned from infested homes
"The bedbugs are always where people spend a lot of the time," said Carlos Rodriguez, of AAA Pest Control, which tented the Oakland Park library. "There's really not a prevention for this."
Closing its Doreen Gauthier Lighthouse Point Library for four days after the critters were found in some of its chairs. The Delray Beach Library also had bedbugs this year, limited to an area around its magazine stacks.
"It's seemingly very embarrassing, but it's a fact of life," Oakland Park City Clerk Renee Shrout said of the infestation. "Fortunately, they don't carry any diseases. It's just a nuisance."
The Oakland Park library, shown Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, has been shut down since Thursday because of an outbreak of bed bugs there. Lighthouse Point's library had the same problem in August. (Amy Beth Bennett / Sun Sentinel)
The library, at 1298 NE 37th St., is set to re-open at noon Tuesday. Shrout said the bedbugs were confined to the computer section. In addition to the library being fumigated , the city is changing the seating that harbored the insects
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“The bugs can also come into libraries in the binding of books returned from infested homes”
The reverse must also be true. You can bring bedbugs home from the library. You check out some books and you check out some bedbugs.
What kind of a neighborhood is this library in?
Another consequence of the banning of DDT after the Silent Spring hoax, although not nearly as serious as malaria.
The author of that book (Rachel Carson) is responsible for the death of millions.
Libraries have become free Internet cafes where low information people can access their social websites. On the rare occasion I visit the local library (digital formats are more convenient) I notice the computers are busy with people on Facebook and various ethnic social sites; the rest of the chairs around the premises are filled with people with laptops doing research for school, and the book aisles are empty.
It’s more than a nuisance. They will crawl into electronics and short things out.
So is Ralph Nader although he has said it (pushing to ban DDT) was the worst mistake of his life. Very little comfort to the millions that died...
Regards,
GtG
The main library in Tulsa OK, was closed several years ago for the same bedbug reason.
Public Libraries is where the homeless and/or computerless go to view porn.
IOW they bring the bedbugs into the libraries
IOW they bring the bedbugs into the libraries
I watched it happen. Our local library in Mass. was having trouble justifying it’s existence due to low usage by the public. They approved porn use at the library in order to bring in more library users. We stopped using the library when the porn crowd moved in after a man tried to show my seven year old porn on his computer. The librarian laughed when I told her. Perv city.
YIKES! About your seven year old!
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