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(Floiduh) Library's tale of woe: Bedbugs biting patrons
sun-sentinel. ^ | Dec 8 | By Larry Barszewski,

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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1 posted on 12/11/2014 2:38:14 PM PST by dennisw
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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.


2 posted on 12/11/2014 2:39:34 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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What kind of a neighborhood is this library in?


3 posted on 12/11/2014 2:44:14 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: dennisw

Another consequence of the banning of DDT after the Silent Spring hoax, although not nearly as serious as malaria.


4 posted on 12/11/2014 2:45:10 PM PST by colorado tanker
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The author of that book (Rachel Carson) is responsible for the death of millions.


5 posted on 12/11/2014 2:46:49 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dennisw
"The bedbugs are always where people spend a lot of the time," . . . limited to an area around its magazine stacks. . . . the bedbugs were confined to the computer section.

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.

6 posted on 12/11/2014 2:47:27 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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It’s more than a nuisance. They will crawl into electronics and short things out.


7 posted on 12/11/2014 3:02:43 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: trisham
The author of that book (Rachel Carson) is responsible for the death of millions.

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

8 posted on 12/11/2014 4:04:03 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: dennisw

The main library in Tulsa OK, was closed several years ago for the same bedbug reason.


9 posted on 12/11/2014 4:34:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I survived I-35W through Fort Worth in Rush hour! MILE AND MILES OF CONSTRUCTION!)
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Public Libraries is where the homeless and/or computerless go to view porn.


10 posted on 12/11/2014 6:05:57 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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IOW they bring the bedbugs into the libraries


11 posted on 12/11/2014 11:48:11 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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IOW they bring the bedbugs into the libraries


All I know is that libraries are now open to a seedy population due to opening themselves to porn. They used to ban porn from their computers. Hotels are a major source of bedbugs and this crowd often resides in hotels.

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.


12 posted on 12/12/2014 4:39:16 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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YIKES! About your seven year old!


13 posted on 12/12/2014 5:53:28 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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