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Nike flagship store shut down, latest store to have bedbugs bite ( NYC )
NEW YORK POST ^ | September 18, 2010 | GEORGETT ROBERTS and CATHY BURKE

Posted on 09/18/2010 12:06:00 PM PDT by george76

Nike’s tourist-friendly flagship store here is closed down because of bedbugs...

Nike is the latest big retailer in Manhattan to get bit by the bedbug infestation.

Abercrombie & Fitch also was shut down the bed bug infestation that is ravaging New York, as well as one Times Square theater.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bedbug; bedbugs; ddt; infestation; newyork; nike

1 posted on 09/18/2010 12:06:02 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

IKE TOW bump! And if any of you OC FReeers get this, you get a cookie.


2 posted on 09/18/2010 12:13:38 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (3(0|\|0/\/\1($ 101: (4P174L1$/\/\ R3QU1r3$ (4P174L. Could it be any more simple?)
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To: george76

New slogan: “Just Bite me!”


3 posted on 09/18/2010 12:16:01 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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To: george76

Before you stay in a hotel, check http://www.bedbugregistry.com

Also, while there, take a look at the NYC map of reported incidents! Yikes!!!

[covers apartments too]


4 posted on 09/18/2010 12:17:45 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: george76

Weirdly enough, this is the result of the ecologist movement, and Rachel Carson’s silent spring which had as a result a ban on DDT.

I hope a lot of ecologists are bitten!


5 posted on 09/18/2010 12:17:58 PM PDT by Michel12
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
cimex-n1-feeding-4
6 posted on 09/18/2010 12:21:38 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: george76

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


7 posted on 09/18/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (Please Lord, give America a 2nd chance. Through your Son Jesus Christ, Amen.)
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To: Winstons Julia
New slogan: “Just Bite me!”

LOL!

8 posted on 09/18/2010 12:23:26 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Part of that 9.5% that's really more like 20%, Let's call it what it is: The Great O-pression)
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To: Winstons Julia

LOL!


9 posted on 09/18/2010 12:25:28 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

DDT..


10 posted on 09/18/2010 12:27:31 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: george76

Well just one more reason that I will never, ever visit New Yuk.


11 posted on 09/18/2010 12:36:11 PM PDT by Pontiac
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To: george76

De-lice Washington. Drop DDT on Congress..


12 posted on 09/18/2010 12:44:43 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: george76
Nike’s tourist-friendly flagship store here is closed down because of bedbugs...

For generations our country had no bed bug or tuberculosis worries until we became overrun with the third worlders.

13 posted on 09/18/2010 12:53:06 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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Now sendeth we bedbugs to torment thee, lest thee repent of thy sinful ways...
14 posted on 09/18/2010 1:04:06 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: varon

Yep, for once we will have to warn fuzzy foreigners about our own “ick” problem. Next thing you know, our water won’t be safe to drink.


15 posted on 09/18/2010 8:08:04 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Oldexpat

invented the year I was born.....


16 posted on 09/18/2010 8:32:56 PM PDT by goat granny
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