Old lumber camp sack bedtime saying.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
where the grey back lice and bed bugs creep.
If I should die before I wake,
who the hell’s gonna spend my stake?
You’re probably right.
Those refute bed bugs are used to living on any hard surface.
Do they have their ‘papers’?
Were they cited, to appear later? In some judge’s chamber?
“let me guess, it becomes a homeless camp at times and they won’t do anything about it. ”
That was my first thought too.
I saw a homeless guy passed out on the train a couple weeks ago and his coat was literally crawling with bugs. They were large enough to easily see with the naked eye from a few feet away, so probably not bed bugs, just lice. Made me have to rethink sitting down on the train though...
the bedbug epidemic happened to all the libraries in our area ... bums camping out in the libraries ... ultimately, the old furniture was replaced with furniture that was uncomfortable for sleeping as well as being bedbug resistant ... THEN the bums used the library restrooms for shooting up and smoking meth, resulting polluting chunks of the ventilation system with highly toxic compounds, with the bathrooms and their ventilation systems having to be shutdown and hundreds of thousands spent on renovation ... this is a suburban area with several closely spaced small cities composed of mostly of upper middle class, with some of the other working classes mixed in ...
In the old days they would have closed it off and lit some sulfur candles. Nothing would survive.