I can’t believe how poorly the bedbug situation at the camp was handled. Honestly what were the Canada Games organizers doing? This should have been taken care of LONG before the athletes arrived! On the news, they had a ‘bedbug sniffing’ dog in to deem the camp bedbug free before the athletes arrived. This has got to be some type of joke. No wonder the rest of the country will not take Nova Scotia seriously. Now a days people use exterminators… also, they said on the news, they used the extreme cold to exterminate the pests—by leaving the windows of the camp open. I was blown away when I heard this news segment and how it seems as if they had NO knowledge of how to exterminate bedbugs. It would have taken one phone call to an exterminator, heck they could have googled it. Two days later there’s news of the athletes being ‘forced out’ of the camp. Saw that one coming! Shame on you Halifax/Canada Games Organizers, quit spending money and resources on these crazy half brained ideas and witchcraft. In the beginning I was proud Halifax was hosting the games, but now not so sure. —Losing faith in this city
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2011.
Nova Scotia has 71 bug reports
http://bedbugregistry.com/location/NS/
I agree OP. The media reported that Tin Horton’s Camp staff used steam cleaners to clean the mattresses, carpets, etc. and then left the doors and windows open overnight to freeze the remaining bugs out. I think they failed to realize the eggs would remain dormant until the temperatures were favorable again.
I think I read somewhere that if you’re “freezing them” you need to freeze them for 4-5 WEEKS before the eggs all die off. They can easily live that long. Duh. Too bad.
no one takes nova scotia seriously anyway, doesn’t the CFL occasionally brand itself as a true canadian coast to coast sport? As for the rest of the country, i was in Calgary recently and no one was aware the games were going on anyway, so i wouldn’t worry about it.
I read on the net, you can also kill them quicker using heat.
But you have to get the rooms up to 45 46 degrees Cent.
For at least an hour.
Just make sure you don’t burn your house down…although, that’ll definately alieviate the problem ~;)
How embarrassing. Now when the world thinks dirty France will no longer be the focus.
The beg bug sniffing dog isn’t witchcraft. As the problem escalates throughout North America more and more exterminators are using sniffer dogs to locate beg bud infestations. Customs and crime investigators have been using sniffer dogs for decades to good effect.
The steam cleaning remedies are also recommended for some types of situations. Certain materials don’t take kindly to being doused with insecticides.
Insecticides aren’t fool proof either. In many areas bed bugs have developed resistance to common insecticides and there are health consequences to their use.
I wouldn’t be too hard on the Canada Games organizers. Bed bugs are a growing epidemic. Even the Victoria’s Secret store in Manhattan was in the news recently because of bed bugs. Bet that cut thong sales down to nothing!
I’m not a professional exterminator, but I know a lot about bed bugs and their habits and weaknesses because I battled an infestation in my home for almost eight months a few years ago. I didn’t resort to a professional exterminator because of cost and the fact that they make no guarantees, but I was victorious in the end and I didn’t have to lay down a barrage of Agent Orange throughout the house to accomplish this feat.
I’d like to be able to share my anti-bed bug insurgency tactics with you, but I’m afraid all that information is now classified.
yeah, that did seem kind of stupid, but then realized where we live, n.s.
this has to be the biggest fucking screw up, in our history. and oh yes, it will be talked about forever. even the cartoon in the horrid, made light of it, but collectors of these cartoons, will have it forever.
n.s. seems to be lacking any brains in a lot of places, and this is just another example.
correct me if I’m wrong….
why aren’t we just getting them their own beds?
http://bedbugsbits.com/wp-content/uploads/…
If taxpayer money was used to hire exterminators, everyone would be up in arms, so they tried to do it the best way they could without pissing anyone off. That didn’t work though!
Yes zZz, or set up, like a decoy bed or something!
these little fuckers don’t magically appear in places like this. someone or something carried them in there, maybe unaware they did. bedbugs are slimy little fucking yucks, just like ticks, and they also have to be brought from point a to point b.
no, they are not the biggest problem, but a very significant one of late. if you have them, stay the fuck away from other people and places. you should be charged for transporting a harmful species.
these disgusting little bastards were carried to vicky’s store, by an employee, or a customer.
Did the Metro Transit people come up with this? http://www.canadagames2011.ca/en/home/tick…
I want to see an X in the entire “free event” column. Just interested in which province people are cheering for, or are people cheering individual events?
I love the whole ‘GO FOR THE GOLD’ sign….
hmm, I wonder if CANADA is going to get the gold at the CANADA games?
toughie…. I wonder if we OWN THE PODIUM while we’re at it?
Bedbug sniffing dogs are legit OP. And you’ve ignored the possibility that the building was bedbug free when the athletes arrived. But was infested again by one of the athletes. A whole bunch of people from across Canada coming together to stay in the same building with all that luggage? That’s practically a recipe for an infestation what with the bedbug problem being across Canada and all.