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Bedbug City: 1 in 10 New Yorkers has grappled with bedbugs in their home
NY Daily News ^ | 08/16/10 | Samual Goldsmith and Helen Kennedy

Posted on 08/16/2010 5:10:12 AM PDT by jerry557

Bedbugs are taking over New York.

A new Daily News-Marist poll suggests that The City That Never Sleeps is probably too busy itching: One in 10 New Yorkers has now battled bedbugs in their home.

That's twice as many as the city estimated were plagued by the pests in 2009.

The poll results suggest that more than 800,000 New Yorkers have had bloodsucking bedbugs crawling in their sheets.

"I got all chewed up," said Margaret Martinez, 61, of the Bronx, one of the 11% of poll respondents who reported having personal run-ins with the tiny bloodthirsty insects.

"I woke up and I had bites all over my arms and my face. I was all swollen," she said.

From swanky glass lofts to creaky tenement walkups, the plague of parasites appears to have spread fairly evenly across the five boroughs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bedbugs; nyc
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1 posted on 08/16/2010 5:10:15 AM PDT by jerry557
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Crazy Bedbug!
2 posted on 08/16/2010 5:14:35 AM PDT by traderrob6
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3 posted on 08/16/2010 5:14:39 AM PDT by jerry557
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Apparently they act like Dems.

Pray for America


4 posted on 08/16/2010 5:16:09 AM PDT by bray (Have you bought one yet? http://www.brayincandy.com/id239.html)
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Apparently they act like Dems.

That they do! Heck, they're probably all registered to vote as democrats, too.
5 posted on 08/16/2010 5:17:54 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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6 posted on 08/16/2010 5:18:00 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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Is this why the White House West Wing is covered, bed bugs?


7 posted on 08/16/2010 5:20:16 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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All those vacations and travel? Hmmm....


8 posted on 08/16/2010 5:21:35 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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Now that CNN Time Warner building got hit with bedbugs it’s a national story....

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/bed_bugs_at_time_warner_center_in_new_york_170705.asp


9 posted on 08/16/2010 5:21:41 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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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
Bedbugs 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

10 posted on 08/16/2010 5:21:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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Could be, could be. Still, CNN’s been infected with louses and parasites for a long time, as there’s precious little difference between liberals and bedbugs.


11 posted on 08/16/2010 5:24:05 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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I stay out of hotels if at all possible.....

their cleaning standards are not up to mine.....


12 posted on 08/16/2010 5:26:04 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Can you find a picture of a bedbug so we can judge it’s relative size. One next to a penny, or a ruler, a grain of rice or something like that?


13 posted on 08/16/2010 5:26:21 AM PDT by Ditter
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Their guest lists probably aren’t either.


14 posted on 08/16/2010 5:28:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Good. This brings a smile to my face, and I hope that the problem gets much, much worse for these preening, unctuous twits in New York.

It doesn’t rise to the level of pest that they’ve inflicted on westerners with the reintroduction of the wolf, but it is a start. Hopefully, we can re-introduce wolves to the east very soon. I expect that wolves would do very well in areas like NJ and NY. Then these clowns can be eaten in their beds, and if they survive that, they can make a dash for their car, bus or train in the morning.


15 posted on 08/16/2010 5:29:11 AM PDT by NVDave
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16 posted on 08/16/2010 5:30:37 AM PDT by TSgt (And the war came.)
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Wow - New Yorkers are so much more sophisticated and wiser than those of us in flyover country. I wonder what benefit they see in having bedbugs that we just don’t understand. To paraphrase - “It’s a New Yorker Thing. You Wouldn’t Understand.”


17 posted on 08/16/2010 5:31:19 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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Not just a game, but preparation for the real thing!
18 posted on 08/16/2010 5:33:27 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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Perfect! Thanks!


19 posted on 08/16/2010 5:33:33 AM PDT by Ditter
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20 posted on 08/16/2010 5:33:33 AM PDT by TSgt (And the war came.)
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