bed bug news for 2007-11-15
By Nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in CurbedSF, SUNY, Tipping Point, Toronto Public Health, bed bug letter, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, binghamton university, business, california, canada, cascade hall, cayuga hall, colleges, consumer, dorms, health department, history, lawsuits, legal, marina district, media, new york, news, ontario, public health, san francisco, snopes, students, toronto, town hall meeting, universities, usa
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East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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Bed bugs have been found in two separate dorms at Binghamton University (SUNY) in New York state. This time it’s in Cascade Hall in Mountainview College.
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Bed bugs found in the Cayuga Hall dorm at Binghamton University. A subsequent article on Nov. 13 notes that a bed bug was later found wandering a hallway in Cayuga. Within the week, bed bugs were also found in Cascade Hall.
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An article in the latest Business Week SmallBiz cites a Marina District property manager’s infestation (5 rooms, hallways, and in-between walls in a 28-unit complex) as costing $40k, which included almost $10 grand to one litigious resident.
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The standard groveling letter from a corporation that doesn’t give a hoot about the consumer’s experience, was once called “the bed bug letter.”
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Yet another appropriation of bed bugs as a metaphor. Hopelessnomo calls this a Tipping Point, and I agree. This article begins, “Have you considered lately how similar the U.S. economy is to the pesky bedbug?”
(The following is not really bed bug news, but a reminder of a time not long ago when encountering a bed bug in a place of business was a bit like finding a hair in your salad, but maybe more common.)
(These last two are not really bed bug stories, but they tell us something about how widely known bed bugs are becoming: they’re starting to mean something in popular parlance once again.)
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hopelessnomo | Nov 15, 2007 | Reply
I think it was bugzinthehood who first started calling tipping points? Or was it Parakeets? So props to them for starting that bedbugger tradition.
Those stories about how much bedbugs cost property owners are sad but essential. If anything is going to wake people up…
(Editor’s note: Yes, it was Bugzinthehood.)