Category: bed bug blame game
By nobugsonme on Mar 18, 2008 in Fox, Fox NY, Fox News, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, employees and bed bugs, new york, nyc, rumors of bed bugs, workplace | 12 Comments
Someone claimed there were bed bugs in the VIP couch at Fox News’s Manhattan studios in November of 2006. After we followed up, the source claimed she was told this by a Fox producer. That sounded plausible enough, but still, just a rumor.
Then, a year later, in November 2007, someone else claimed […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 15, 2008 in ISAN, Thailand, backpackers, backpackers and bed bugs, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs and travel, bedbugs, blame game, foreigners and bed bugs, immigrants, travel | 2 Comments
The bed bug blame game never ceases. Yesterday we heard about the Thai Isan trains infested with bed bugs.
Now the Thai railway company is blaming backpackers for bringing bed bugs to the trains, as the Bangkok Post reports in an article entitled, “Foreign Backpackers deny they’re bed bug spreaders.”
Foreign backpackers say they are […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 25, 2008 in YMCA, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs and kids, bedbugs, blame game, camp, camp Storer, laws, lawsuit, lawsuits, legal, legal issues, michigan, smoking gun, summer camp | 4 Comments
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot reports that a family is suing the Storer YMCA camp in Napoleon Township, Michigan, claiming that their son brought bed bugs home with him from camp.
Edward Higgins, the defense lawyer, tried to kill the suit, claiming it’s impossible to know how and when bed bugs arrived in the home, but the judge […]
By Nobugsonme on Dec 16, 2007 in BBC, CBBC, bat bite, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, bedbugs children, bee attack, cost of bedbugs, costs, discovery channel, fun, hanta virus, insurance, rabies, reimbursement, renters' insurance, san jose, sensationalism, snake attack, tell your tale of woe, uk | 5 Comments
Today’s bed bug news:
CBBC Newsround | UK | Look out, there are bedbugs about How to scare the children, from the Children’s BBC. Remember it was just a few years ago when the CBBC thought bed bugs were the same as dust mites. We’ve come a long way, babies.
San Jose Mercury […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 9, 2007 in Bed and Breakfast Lunch and Dinner, australia, avoiding bed bugs, awareness, bad ideas, bed bug blame game, bed bug dog, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs | 3 Comments
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Finally, someone in the business arena sees the light about bed bugs and the bottom line: and it’s not the flashing dollar signs of the over-the-counter bed bug spray industry, either. Kerry Miller published an article entitled “The Cost of Bed […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 3, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, bracken county, children and bed bugs, detection, diagnosis, doe, employee, government, health, health department, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, maryland, misinformation, new york, pest control, pest control in schools, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, scapegoating, schools, signs and symptoms, students, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, warning, workplace | 1 Comment
More information about the Bracken County Schools bed bug situation. A new article from WCPO.com news says T&M Pest Control is treating Bracken County schools for bed bugs this weekend.
Terry says, “A pest control program for bed bugs is very detailed. You’ve got to get all the crevices. We are doing a little more […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 24, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, big business, blame game, employee, law, new york, news, nyc, usa, workplace | 3 Comments
Back in June we blogged the story of alleged bed bugs on the 33rd floor of the oldest Wall Street law firm (c. 1792), Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. The memo implies the infestation was blamed on an employee, who was then apparently let go.
Having heard nothing since then, I was glad to see that […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 19, 2007 in activism, alberta, apartments, awareness, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, canada, detection, disabled, elderly, eviction, government, ignorance, information and help, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, notification, prep, public education, social services, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 17 Comments
The Daily Record reports that a landlord is trying to evict George Veghte, a disabled man from Rutgers Village, a complex in Parsippany, NJ. He asked for help with his bed bugs. They told him to prep, but he could not follow all steps on his own.
His lease was terminated Sept. 27, about […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 24, 2007 in alberta, apartments, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, british columbia, canada, manitoba, new brunswick, newfoundland and labrador, nova scotia, ontario, prince edward island, quebec, saskatchewan | 4 Comments
Our FAQ on who pays for tenants’ bed bug treatment just got a little more complete. Since this is a really helpful resource, I am blogging it too.
Courtesy of the CBC’s links from its fine story on bed bugs (which remains the best television clip on bed bugs to date, hands down, in my […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 18, 2007 in activism, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, landlords, low-income housing, ontario, tenants, tents, thestar.com, toronto | 3 Comments
This update from citynews.ca complicates matters: tenant and landlord are now playing the “bed bug blame game.” Landlord says her couch is “the source” of bed bugs, so she must have moved them in two weeks ago. Tenant says she did not have them in her old apartment.
Here’s a new article from theStar.com […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 8, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, conferences, landlords, legal, new york, nyc, spread, tools and weapons, treatment, usa | 31 Comments
Yesterday, there was a Bed Bug Control Seminar, sponsored by Pest Control Technology magazine, and held in the Park Central Hotel, Manhattan.
Journalist Sarah Ferguson dropped me an email to let me know that her Village Voice article on the seminar was up, here.
As expected, the bed bug news is not good:
“We have to […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 20, 2007 in bed bug bites, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, connecticut, detection, furniture, hotels, mattresses, misdiagnoses, multi-unit buildings, nevada, new haven, news, public education, spread, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 2 Comments
In Reno, they have so few bed bug cases, that the health department called three residents of an apartment complex to tell them their building is infested. (New Yorkers, are you laughing?!)
Unfortunately, as Geralda Miller of the Reno Gazette Journal reports, the advice being given to tenants is not great:
“They’re an indoor critter,” [Jeff […]
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