We all need to contact our HRM councillors by email or phone and demand that they implement some kind of treatment i.e pesticide that will kill them.
At this point of fear of getting them and bringing them into MY home, I’d rather have poisons in the air knowing it kills them then suffer from the paranoia or worse the experience! We all inhale toxins and chemicals on a daily basis, what’s one more if it means we’re bed bug free?!
People be diligent, think about where you are and who may have been there before you. Who tried on those clothes at the store before you did? Who hung their coat next to yours? Who is a passenger in your car that might have been around someone else who has them, who sat on that new showroom sofa before you brought it home? Movie theatres, restaurants, airplanes, hotels, your co workers, etc. These little bastards are like hitchhikers, they commute for free!
Check where you’re sleeping if you travel, don’t put your luggage just anywhere, don’t trust that because the hotel is 4-5* that it is safe. NOTHING is safe! Most panicked about H1N1, well imagine having bugs in your home, all over you, biting you while you sleep! There is no shot for that! If they get into YOUR home, fumigation costs $1000’s, all your stuff basically has to be tossed out. Can you afford to buy all new furniture and clothes? And DO NOT participate in the FREE CURBSIDE PICK UP, another man’s junk could be your bed bug hell! It’s free, leave it there, you DON’T need it! We need to get control! HRM WAKE UP!!! —FED UP, TERRIFIED AND DISGUSTED
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.
do you have bed bugs? have you ever seen one?
The whole time reading this bitch the “hide your kids, hide your wife” song was playing in my head.
Calm down, you fucking hysterical idiot – the goddamn bedbugs are taking the place of the fucking boogieman. Don’t panic until you’ve got something to panic about. My best friend had bedbugs for two years and didn’t realize it – I probably visited her a jillions times in that period when her doc was telling her she had some kind of rare skin condition. Well, it was fucking bedbug bites – she tossed the mattress, moved and is doing just dandy. And not one of the little peckerheads crossed my threshold. So there!
This is another Ironic Bitch, right?
if you get em’, just burn your place down, that’ll get rid of them for sure, nyuk, nyuk.
I feel the same way OP, but I try and block it from my mind while being careful at the same time. My parents have a neighbour in their condo (they’re everywhere in Toronto) who’s been fumigated 6 times so far, but that was over a year ago and they still have no problems. Mom’s a neat freak but apparently that doesn’t make a difference now. Atleast they can’t jump or fly, and you can spot them with the naked eye. Just check your clothes when you get home and if you stay in a hotel leave your suitcase zipped shut!
OP do you have any idea how many parasites are on/in your body (and everyone else in the world) right now. They’re harmless bugs. They are not poisonous, a pest. There’s a lot more dangerous things in the world than bedbugs.
@bro tim
nice thought, except they aren’t harmless for people who have a fear of insects and who aren’t getting any sleep at night. And that’s a fair amount of people.
Those with actual infestations, and dozens of itchy sores on their legs and gentals, would also disagree.
they are incredibly hard to eradicate, and some people are left living in discomfort or actually having to move. Just because you and your pals don’t have them, doesn’t discount the hundreds of folks in HRM who do.
you are one dirty person…and the thing is,you admit it!
For the love of God get a grip!
Your hysteria will infect the rest of the herd!!
Never had bed bugs.
Who the fuck are you calling dirty. I have no bedbugs but as others say quit being fucking hysterical about it. How many people who have them and go camping. Now there’s a recipe for bugs. They are pests, may nip, but they can’t fucking kill you. If you have them then wash your clothes, linens, etc, shampoo your carpets. Just wait til the ants come back.
Did you know that there are billions of these adorable critters…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…
…currently living and laying eggs in your pillows, mattress, bedding, and carpet? They feed off your dead skin flakes and hydrate themselves with your saliva and breath moisture.
And the best part is you can’t do anything about it. They will always be there while you sleep, crawling around.
Concern and caution is good when it comes to bed bugs as they actually bite you, but hysteria over bugs in general is useless. Bro Tim has a point. No matter how far we remove ourselves from nature we are still closer to it than we think. It’s best to get over fear of bugs, they aren’t going anywhere.
I wonder if flea collar for cats may deter these little buggers too.
…and in a related note, the sky is falling and we are all going to die.
In snoop’s pic, it looks like it has finger print printed on its back. Funny looking bugger it is.
Just another symptom of our paranoid, clean, anti-germ, sterile environment. Go buy a case of beer, drink same and barf on mattress, bed bug dead, head hurts, life goes on.
Snoop, if it weren’t for those little buggers (pun intended), we’d be knee deep in dead skin.
There is more than one symbiotic creature that we need to live 🙂
Look at a piece of cheese sometime.
For some reason in my head (besides the snatchin’ up yo kids guy) was…
Bugs, bugs, bugs…which are good which are bad?
Bugs, bugs, bugs…ask your mom or ask your dad.
Seems to be the newest pandemic. Wait until the bedbugs catch H1N1 then we’ll all be in deep shit.
The Curbside Giveaway turnout this past weekend was exceptionally low this time around due to the media reporting not taking items for fear bed bugs might be included.
Bed bug, bed bugs, whachha gonna do when they sleep with you….