# Bedbugs!! Piss on the matress store guy!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341 "2009-03-22T15:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/41 "2009-03-23T03:59:13Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > They’re making a [come back in Chicago](http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-0226-bedbugsfeb26,0,3045951.story). Holy shit-yikes!!! (Just stay away from Pittsburgh, dammit!) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/42 "2009-03-23T05:16:52Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > I may never sleep again. If you guys start seeing lots of late-night posts from me, blame **aldiboronti**. My work here is done! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/43 "2009-03-23T06:25:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I recommend an intravenous infusion of 10% malathion/DDT blend, in saline solution. How do you get the bedbugs to hold still while you insert the IV, though? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/44 "2009-03-23T07:48:33Z")
I’d make sure they were bedbugs before I raised hell about it. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/45 "2009-03-23T08:37:41Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Bedbugs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug) Thanks so much for that link **Guin** , I really appreciate your efforts to show us IN SUCH FUCKING GRAPHIC DETAIL the little buggy things that might inhabit our beds while we sleep. Thanks. Heaps. (Insert scratchy smilie here). ☹ Urghhhhh. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/46 "2009-03-23T08:40:30Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I’d make sure they were bedbugs before I raised hell about it. Wouldn’t really matter, ANY kind of livestock is unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/47 "2009-03-23T08:48:30Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > They’re making a [come back in Chicago](http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-0226-bedbugsfeb26,0,3045951.story). In New York as well. Wouldn’t it be sick if this was Al Qaeda’s new strategy? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/48 "2009-03-23T08:59:10Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > In New York as well. > > Wouldn’t it be sick if this was Al Qaeda’s new strategy? Hah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/49 "2009-03-23T12:54:10Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Holy shit-yikes!!! (Just stay away from Pittsburgh, dammit!) Don’t worry, if it’s big in New York and Chicago, it won’t be big in Pittsburgh for another 10-20 years. Sometimes it’s good to be so far behind the times. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/50 "2009-03-23T12:56:30Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I asked him, & he said “yes”. Did he use those finger quotes? 'Cause that should have clued you in. (Bedbugs are awful – they are making a comeback in NYC, too) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/51 "2009-03-23T13:11:20Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > The guy woke up itching in the night, turned on the light, _and the bedbugs were climbing the wall and dropping on to the bed from the ceiling_! Cannonball… wheee! Can Opener… wheee! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/52 "2009-03-23T13:21:11Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Cannonball… wheee! > > Can Opener… wheee! _The junebug flies on wings of gold The firefly wings of flame The bedbug has no wings at all But he gets there just the same!_ ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/53 "2009-03-23T13:26:29Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I recall reading of a guy who did just this, circling his bed with, if not the earth then something else that bedbugs couldn’t get through. > > The guy woke up itching in the night, turned on the light, _and the bedbugs were climbing the wall and dropping on to the bed from the ceiling_! Argh! What next: “the call is coming from inside your house”. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/54 "2009-03-23T14:46:10Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > In New York as well. > > Wouldn’t it be sick if this was Al Qaeda’s new strategy? And Boston. My husband said he got them in his apt before I met him. According to him, they were EVERYWHERE. He thought he got rid of them, then went to put a pair of sneakers one day and they were crawling out of the laces. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/55 "2009-03-23T14:56:00Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Thanks so much for that link **Guin** , I really appreciate your efforts to show us IN SUCH FUCKING GRAPHIC DETAIL the little buggy things that might inhabit our beds while we sleep. > > Thanks. Heaps. > > (Insert scratchy smilie here). ☹ > > Urghhhhh. I wonder how many bedbugs the average person eats in their sleep? I mean they’re attracted to human breath. Seems likely one could just fall right in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/56 "2009-03-23T15:29:16Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > …My husband said he got them in his apt before I met him. According to him, they were EVERYWHERE… Nuke him from orbit. Only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/57 "2009-03-23T15:45:20Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > They’re making a [come back in Chicago](http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-0226-bedbugsfeb26,0,3045951.story). They’re making a comeback all over the country. Even in the swankiest of hotels. I worked in a furniture store years ago, and the rule was, if you slept on a mattress, it was yours. We had an irate customer come into the store one evening, all pissed off because his chest of drawers didn’t come in when promised. However, he already received delivery on the bed and bedding, and we told him we’d take back the bed but not the mattress or boxspring. He was so angry that he went after my (female) manager. I had to call the cops to get him out of the store. I think the store was wrong from a PR standpoint, but the rules are very strict with regard to bedding. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/58 "2009-03-23T15:59:23Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Argh! What next: “the call is coming from inside your house”. Hey! See post #34. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/59 "2009-03-23T16:05:53Z")
Wonder if its one of those cyclical things, like how head lice seem to pop up on school children every few years? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/60 "2009-03-23T16:27:26Z")
If that’s the case then clearly we need to discourage schoolchildren from buying matresses from a small businessman instead of from a chain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=4)