Category: curbside
By nobugsonme on Dec 29, 2007 in bed bug eviction, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and hoarding, bedbugs, canada, curbside, dumpster diving, eviction, getting rid of bed bugs, hoarding, landlords, mental illness, sherbrook street, tenants, winnipeg | 4 Comments
Lindor Reynolds of the Winnipeg Free Press reports on a bed bug eviction case in Winnipeg: a woman was evicted from her Sherbrook Street apartment. It was infested with bed bugs. She is disabled and on social assistance. This is a heart-breaking story.
But this is also a complicated story: George […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 5, 2007 in Brooklyn, bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, greenpoint, mattresses, miss heather, new york, nyc, street mattresses, williamsburg | 4 Comments
Bed bugs in Brooklyn. Well, I’d guess they were. You can never be sure. But I have lived in New York for many a year, and one did not used to find the sheer volume of mattresses one does today.
Many of them look shiny and new,
Others are streaked with bed bug pooh!
(These […]
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 Oct 9, 2007 in EMTS, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, england, firefighters, furniture, hospitals, journalist, laundry, london, mattresses, northern ireland, ohio, police, scotland, spread, tips, tossing stuff out, treatment, uk, usa, used furniture, wales, workplace | 1 Comment
Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 2, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, clothing, consumer, curbside, furniture, furniture rental, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, information and help, ohio, public education, public health, spread, tips, tools and weapons, usa | 12 Comments
Local News 12 in Cincinnati had a new segment on bed bugs on Monday. That city has declared their bed bug epidemic to be a huge problem, and started throwing energy, time, and resources into solving it as best they can. They appear to fully understand what a difficult task that is. […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 19, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, furniture, ohio | 0 Comments
Fox19 reports “City Establishes Bed-Bug Furniture Pick-Up Procedures and Hotline.” (Hopelessnomo drew our attention to this in a comment, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw it.) Cincinnati now has a hotline people can call to have infested items picked up by garbage collectors.
Pros:
They have a hotline.
Garbage collectors know what […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 11, 2007 in apartments, bed bugs, box springs, curbside, furniture, hazardous waste?, mystery, tenants, tossing stuff out | 6 Comments
Well, box spring, actually. But I liked the alliteration and the wink to Woody Allen (well, Woody Allen before everything went wrong).
The Bedbugger known as iphone interloper* has sent me a batch of interesting photos taken on 1st Ave. in the East Village on Saturday at 2 pm. First the photos, then […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 7, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture | 3 Comments
We’ve been following the bed bug situation in Cincinnati for a while.
Yesterday, Joe Wessels of the Cincinnati Post reported that city officials were forming a commission to fight the problem:
The Bedbug Remediation Commission, a five-member panel of local health, social service and elected leaders, is in the process of forming and will try […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 4, 2007 in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa | 4 Comments
The Patriot Ledger of Southofboston.com (2/2008: link removed; no longer working) reports that even students’ own furniture cannot be brought into dorm rooms, say Eastern Nazarene College officials, who are trying to prevent bed bug outbreaks on campus.
That means no mattresses, no sofas at the school in Quincy, Mass. The policy only applies to […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 31, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, greenpoint, new york, nyc, secondhand, sofas, usa | 1 Comment
That’s the plea on a discarded sofa, the photo of which is posted on the wonderfully-named Greenpoint blog, newyorkshitty.com.
What the authors of the sign do not know is, just because they do not feel any bites, doesn’t mean you won’t. Many people don’t react to bed bug bites.
Caveat curb-shopper!
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