What do I do to get rid of em!! they bite real bad and dare annoying the hell outta me!

6/29/2008 4:57:06 PM

get a new bed

6/29/2008 4:57:30 PM

I SAID DON'T LET THE BED BUGS BITE GOD DAMMIT

6/29/2008 4:57:34 PM

6/29/2008 4:58:04 PM

uh...

burn mattress

wash your sheets

vaccum/shampoo carpet?

i have no idea

how does one get bed bugs?

6/29/2008 4:58:15 PM

Verminators

6/29/2008 4:58:17 PM

I heard they hide in places other than the bed.. and its impossible to get rid of em

6/29/2008 4:58:56 PM

i consider myself to have a nastier bed than most but i'm pretty sure i dont have bed bugs...dont get how thats possible

6/29/2008 4:59:25 PM

bed bugs? holy shit, man

what fucking country do you live in?

6/29/2008 5:00:18 PM

i thought these were extremely common

6/29/2008 5:01:40 PM

if you think bed bugs are common you're hanging out with the wrong people

6/29/2008 5:02:05 PM

i havent washed my bedsheets in like 5 weeks

6/29/2008 5:02:21 PM

My lease says that Bed Bugs are huge prob and the property management is not resp.. they charge 250 bux for the treatment and its not guaranteed to wrk..

6/29/2008 5:02:25 PM

your....typing....pains....me

6/29/2008 5:02:52 PM

Quote :

"if you think bed bugs are common you're hanging out with the wrong people"

lol i just heard that somewhere once.. i sure as hell hope they aren't common

6/29/2008 5:03:49 PM

hmm,

wikipedia says they were pretty much all eradicated 50 years ago in the US but cases have begun to spread again for some reason

anyway that's fucking gross man

6/29/2008 5:04:55 PM

i heard bed bugs were common, but but but... how do you get them?

im washing my bedsheets right now, *long sigh of relief*

if i hadnt started washing them by now, i would definitely be starting them after reading this thread!

do you live in campus/student housing?

6/29/2008 5:06:07 PM

IIRC, the spread started in the U.S. a few years ago, starting in NYC. It was said that the bugs started to spread due to the large number of travelers and foreigners in NYC. They would pick up bed bugs in other countries, then when they came/came back to the US, the bugs started to spread, mainly in hotels. I'm sure other large cities had the same issue, but NYC was called out for having the worst problem with them

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 5:08 PM. Reason : .]

6/29/2008 5:08:04 PM

nah not on campus.. on avent ferry..

6/29/2008 5:08:05 PM

what are bed bugs?

6/29/2008 5:11:02 PM

im with IMStoned420

that looks like the best way

probably a good dose of radioactive waste would help too

6/29/2008 5:13:08 PM

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/bed-bug.htm

6/29/2008 5:13:30 PM

and is the mattress yours? or did it come with the apt? i would throw out the mattress fo sho

6/29/2008 5:14:18 PM

man i'm about to raid the whole underside of my bed now

6/29/2008 5:16:32 PM

Quote :

"Adult bed bugs can live up to a year without a meal,"

6/29/2008 5:16:45 PM

Quote :

"My lease says that Bed Bugs are huge prob and the property management is not resp"

What a lease says doesn't mean a damn thing.

What matters is what the law says. Which is that landlords must maintain a fit and habitable residence.

If your lease does, in fact, address bedbugs as a common issue, that says to me that the bedbugs are a long-standing issue the complex is aware of, and refuses to deal with.

Bedbug FAQ

Ridding your apartment of bedbugs may or may not do any good, depending on whether or not they've spread to adjoining units. If they have, and the complex is being difficult, hit up student legal services and get their take on whether or not you'd be successful in convincing the landlord and/or the court that bedbugs make a residence unsafe. If the lease itself mentions bedbugs, bring that. If student legal services can't help you, contact WRALs 5 on your side. I think this is something they'd love to air.

It's not like bedbugs are like ants, which tend to leave you alone. These things actively seek your ass out, so you have something of a leg to stand on with this argument.

6/29/2008 5:24:31 PM

maybe student legal services can help you out with the lease vs. law thing and tell you what you can do

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 5:27 PM. Reason : haha, i didn't read all of ambrosia's post...sorry]

6/29/2008 5:26:56 PM

I suspect that one call from student legal services will have the complex becoming cooperative very quickly.

Wickerman, you may also want to talk to your neighbors. If the bedbugs are in multiple units, treating just one unit won't help. If management is acting like this with you, they're probably telling others the same thing, and who knows if your neighbors will take the management's word at face value.

6/29/2008 5:29:18 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bugs

6/29/2008 5:56:25 PM

That has to be an awful feeling, bug crawling all over you bed a night

6/29/2008 5:57:39 PM

i'd like to share my bed bugs w/ you....

they only bite gently though

6/29/2008 5:58:30 PM

Thanks a lot ambrosia! I'm gonna contact student legal services tomorrow!

7/1/2008 7:48:01 PM

holy shit!!! i didn't realize they were that big!!

[Edited on July 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM. Reason : rawr]

7/1/2008 7:54:24 PM

do bed bugs = scabies??

7/1/2008 8:24:13 PM

thats what you get for loving a dude that was unclean

7/1/2008 8:25:10 PM

Quote :

"i consider myself to have a nastier bed than most"

this made me lol for some reason.

7/1/2008 8:32:03 PM

Quote :

"thats what you get for loving a dude that was unclean"

does that mean i'm going to have bedbugs now NCSUGimp?

7/1/2008 8:40:35 PM

no

aids

7/1/2008 9:13:27 PM