By nobugsonme on Dec 24, 2007 in BOB, CT, bed bug warnings, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs on craigslist, bed bugs on the internet, bedbugs, connecticut, craigslist, getting rid of bed bugs, oakville, waterbury | 1 Comment
We know bed bugs are all over Waterbury, CT.
And all over Craigslist.
Craigslist reader BOB warned fellow Craigslisters (namely residents of Oakville and the Waterbury area) to beware:
re oakville
Reply to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-20, 11:07PM EST
Watch out for bed bugs. THey are spreading fast. They are all over waterbury and the reactions are too slow. […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 15, 2007 in Brooklyn, apartments, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, craigslist, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, greenpoint, herpes, m4w, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc | 2 Comments
Remember this guy?
Well, he’s back. And it’s hard to believe, but he sounds even less charming than last time. He updates the world that his dorm bed bugs have come back, and he is now moving to a non-bed bug-infested apartment in Greenpoint.
(Dude, no bed bugs in Greenpoint?!? Maybe that old landlord […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 13, 2007 in activism, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, bombs, craigslist, curbside, dr. louis sorkin, education, entomologists, furniture, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, government, government response to bed bugs, greenpoint, health, health department, history, how to get rid of bed bugs, media, multi-unit buildings, new york, new york magazine, news, nyc, pest control, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, secondhand, signs and symptoms, treatment, usa, used furniture | 6 Comments
New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 6, 2007 in Caveat Craigslist, Caveat dumpster, Freecycle, Green, Grist.org, Meredith Viera, Today Show, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug refuse, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, consumer warning, craigslist, curbside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattresses, new york, nyc, secondhand, spread, tossing stuff out, tossing things out, used furniture | 8 Comments
On the Today show this morning, Katie Couric Meredith Viera said, “You can’t live in New York without finding old mattresses and TVs along the curbside because people don’t know what else to do with them. But there is someone who will take them.”
Her interviewee, Chip Giller of Grist.org, suggested going to Craigslist or […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 31, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, craigslist, new york, nyc, spread | 7 Comments
This Craigslist ad, posted on August 24th, asks for interviewees for a bed bug documentary:
It says,
Reply to: comm-405308738@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-08-24, 7:54PM EDT
We’re in the research stage of a documentary film
on the growing bed bug problem in New York City.
Award winning director internationally exhibited (Cannes 2007)
If you have bedbugs have survived bedbugs or know
someone who has we’re […]
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