Comments on: bed bug news for 2007-11-14

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:08:23 +0000

You’re right, of course, Nobugs. However, I’ve tried different things and it’s always an unpleasant experience in the end; don’t know what to do. My next project will be to take this to the source and plead with the scientists who are making such careless statements, like for example Dr. Susan Jones in today’s press out of Ohio. I don’t see any other way otherwise. Dr. Potter has this notion too in the first paragraph of his website. It’s a losing battle.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:31:06 +0000

CraveLeVay,

I really want to delete your post, but I try to allow the full range of opinions here, so I am leaving it up.

Correcting just a few of your errors:

–Bed bugs are not attracted to dirt or messy homes.
–Lots of non-immigrant people in the US are absolute slobs. Lots of immigrants are extremely tidy.
–Bed bugs do not come from Asia. They’ve been in the US since before your ancestors, unless, perhaps, you are a Native American.

In other words, you’re talking out of your ignorant a$$.

I am not going to dignify the rest of your ignorant statements with a response.

By the way, I would also choose truth over political correctness, but I think you are not grasping the truth.

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hopelessnomo–

So basically you’re more influenced by the idiocy present in a small, small minority of the blog comments than the genius present in so many more of them?

That’s not fair!

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:37:30 +0000

CraveLeVay, you are the reason I stay away.

It seems to me, and that’s because it is the truth, that you should hone your critical thinking skills.

Your charm, however, I wouldn’t do anything about. It is a beacon of light!

By: CraveLeVay

CraveLeVay — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:19:19 +0000

Well it seems to me and that’s because it is the truth that immigrants that come from squaller bring a mass amount of the things. If you are a immigrant who is poor has a not so sanitary home as we do enjoy in the US of course the pest are going to love it there. Then they want to come to America and such pack up all their stuff jump a fence swim an ocean boom you brought a vast quantity of them. By the way the Bed bugs originate from Asia. The people here in NJ I have seen have the bed bugs have all been illegal immigrants who live like tribesman in their apartments. Then their ignorant asses go to your house knowing they have the things and don’t care and boom you got them. Truth is much more believable then Political Correctness.

By: Kim D.

Kim D. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:13:25 +0000

I would be really interested to know whatever came of the Bed Bug situation at 111 Lawton Blvd in Toronto… I have rented an apartment there and move in in August and I was pretty horrified to read this!!!!

By: hopelessnomo

hopelessnomo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:35:31 +0000

The Star article about Toronto Community Housing Corp. is very interesting. The interview with the housing official is excellent. (Yes, there’s a bit of confusion on the term fumigation but we see that often enough.)

Steve Floros is starting to think outside the box. He’s talking about rethinking building specs, fomenting tenant enterprise opportunities to prepare apartments or educate tenants, quicker response times. That’s a forward-thinking housing official there.

Very encouraging.

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:58:46 +0000

Good for James — finally someone exposing a landlord. Why hasn’t Nicholas Brown identified his building and exposed his landlord? Isn’t that the mission of the HuffPost — calling wrongdoers to account?

By: James Attila Fodor

James Attila Fodor — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:50:20 +0000

My mothers apartment is infested with Bed Bugs. I don’t know how or where they came from??
The lanlord MLT Properties is blaming her for this. I believe that it is not her fault at all, and while yes he has agreed to have PCO come to her unit he is all so telling other tenents about the problem and from were it originated. As well as intimdating my mom.
This rental unit @ 111 Lawton Blvd. Toronto Ontario M4V 1Z9 is full of cockroaches and the service is by them is all most non existent, (e.g. NOT ENOUGH HEAT, STAIRWELLS NOT CLEARD, WATER TURNED OFF 10 TIMES THIS YEAR 4X THIS MONTH etc). Is there any way for her to stop the intimidation from them.
Sincerey,
James A. Fodor

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:07:15 +0000

I agree. There needs to be a full-on public education campaign: TV, radio, subway ads, magazine ads. We’ve been saying that for a year.

By: nomorebugs

nomorebugs — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:23:16 +0000

The comfort is that when you know their biology (eggs hatching in 10 to 14 days), you understand the methods used to exterminate them.

I’m thinking we need TV public service commercials to inform people what the signs of bed bugs especially in shared housing. It’ll scare people, but an infestation will happen whether people know what they are or not.

Our way to fight back.