Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com » town hall meeting http://bedbugger.com bed bug news, information, activism, and support Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:38:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en bed bug news for 2007-11-15 http://bedbugger.com/2007/11/14/links-for-2007-11-15/ http://bedbugger.com/2007/11/14/links-for-2007-11-15/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:27:34 +0000 Nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/11/14/links-for-2007-11-15/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "bed bug news for 2007-11-15", url: "http://bedbugger.com/2007/11/14/links-for-2007-11-15/" });]]>
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    • (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.)

  • 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.”

    • (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.)

  • 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?”
    • This is about alleged criminals being roused from their beds in a sunrise raid. Wise hopelessnomo called it as a Tipping Point. Ironically, jail is apparently a great place to pick up bed bugs…
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