Posted on 04/07/2010 7:15:24 PM PDT by Mamzelle
When it comes to the budget, it is hard enough for New Yorkers to sleep tight. But now, they may have to worry the bed bugs will bite. Tucked in the myriad cuts in this year's tough-times fiscal plan, is an elimination of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Service, an organization devoted to agricultural solutions and education -- which means fighting pests.
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If we eliminated all the vermin in NY traffic would be much better.
Nic public health issue.
DDT. Thanks to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”, millions died from mosquito borne disease and other insect vermin like bedbugs have come back.
What is a FR bedbug thread without pictures?
There’s a season? Did not know that....
I haven’t heard a good bedbug story in a long while.....
Aww. Usually Freepers jump in with lots of gross pictures....
Careful. Someone might take the bait and post Helen Thomas pictures.
Don’t you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town’s in tatters I’ve been shattered
My brain’s been battered, splattered all over Manhattan
Uh-huh, this town’s full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain’s been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter
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