# 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:** 4
**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, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/61 "2009-03-23T16:48:49Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 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. Well, then we can just sic the Steel Curtain on 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/62 "2009-03-23T18:02:59Z")
I used to like traveling but with the recent bedbug explosion I just don’t like staying in hotels anymore. Now I strip the bed down and with a flashlight check the seams and nooks and crannies of the mattress and box spring, make sure my luggage stays off the floor away from beds/couches, and wash/dry on high all clothes as soon as I walk in the door at home but even then I worry for weeks after that I might have brought something home with me. Has anyone tried out heat remediation for bedbugs? I’ve seen mention of it on the net where they basically bake your house and all contents at 113F for several hours, which is enough to kill all stages of the insect. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/63 "2009-03-23T18:21:01Z")
I sort of think of them as looking like this: [Giant isopod - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/64 "2009-03-23T19:06:26Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > I may never sleep again. If you guys start seeing lots of late-night posts from me, blame **aldiboronti**. Check this out from Wiki: “All bedbugs mate via a process termed traumatic insemination. Instead of inserting their genitalia into the female’s reproductive tract as is typical in copulation, males instead pierce females with hypodermic genitalia and ejaculate into the body cavity. This form of mating is thought to have evolved as a way for males to overcome female mating resistance.” Sleep well. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/65 "2009-03-23T19:52:50Z")
> [@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_! Guy should’ve put DE or whatever at the base of the wall. Northern Virginia has a bedbug problem now as well. We had some but after spreading DE around beds, under the fitted sheets, and along the bottom of walls, they stopped biting. Ones we see are either dead or dying. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/66 "2009-03-23T20:10:39Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I thought he was ordering his army of bedbugs to piss on the mattress store guy. ROFL I had a similar mental image, of some demon lord commanding his army of minions to go forth and destroy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/67 "2009-03-23T21:56:25Z")
Box spring, gone. Mattress being sanitized by mattress firm. All bed linens bagged, will be demanding compensation for same. Cleaning/vacuuming/bug spraying. Mattress store pledged to pay for exterminator, if needed. **No bites last night, at all.** Maybe I’ve lucked out. Hoping for the best. I’m so tired. All this, in the middle of some of the worst fights I’ve ever had with my Dad. ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/68 "2009-03-23T22:05:56Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **No bites last night, at all.** > Maybe I’ve lucked out. > Hoping for the best. I don’t mean to be discouraging, but they don’t usually feed 2 days in a row. Tell the Better Business Bureau or whomever about this store. They should not be giving bedbugs to other people. Or PM me their info, and I’ll do it. ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/69 "2009-03-23T23:06:29Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Check this out from Wiki: > > “All bedbugs mate via a process termed traumatic insemination. Instead of inserting their genitalia into the female’s reproductive tract as is typical in copulation, males instead pierce females with hypodermic genitalia and ejaculate into the body cavity. This form of mating is thought to have evolved as a way for males to overcome female mating resistance.” > > Sleep well. Resistance is futile. You shall be inseminated. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/70 "2009-03-24T00:01:53Z")
**Jamaika a jamaikaiaké** & all-- the house belongs to my Dad. I tell him about it, and he says–“They ain’y bitin me. I got no problem”. He refuses to let exterminators in. He disregards everything I say. This could be a trainwreck. ---
**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 24, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/71 "2009-03-24T00:34:47Z")
So? Does he really want a house full of bugs? (Put a few dead bugs in his bed, if you have to) Try to be there when the exterminators come in-if you have to call off work, do it. You’re an adult. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/72 "2009-03-24T01:47:28Z")
Hypodermic genitalia? So they’re a bunch of needledicks? Yes, that is more info I didn’t need to know about the bedbugs. I am now sleeping in a claw-foot bathtup in the middle of the room, surrounded by a double moat of diatomaceous earth. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/73 "2009-03-24T02:56:34Z")
Am I the only one who didn’t already know what diatomaceous earth was? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/74 "2009-03-24T02:58:05Z")
I’d heard of it, but it apparently has a million uses besides filtering beer. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/75 "2009-03-24T04:39:24Z")
Its dirt with tenure. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/76 "2009-03-24T06:34:00Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > Hypodermic genitalia? So they’re a bunch of needledicks? Yes, that is more info I didn’t need to know about the bedbugs. > > I am now sleeping in a claw-foot bathtup in the middle of the room, surrounded by a double moat of diatomaceous earth. But what about the ones who will dive down at you from the ceiling? What are you doing about THEM? ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/77 "2009-03-24T06:38:36Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I sort of think of them as looking like this: [Giant isopod - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod) Goddamn you… goddamn you… ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/78 "2009-03-24T08:25:45Z")
I don’t quite understand how you can be so sure they came from the new mattress, and that the business owner is at fault. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the horror you are going through, but isn’t it possible that the new mattress and the bed bugs arrival were two completely unrelated events? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/79 "2009-03-24T12:49:42Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > Has anyone tried out heat remediation for bedbugs? I’ve seen mention of it on the net where they basically bake your house and all contents at 113F for several hours, which is enough to kill all stages of the insect. Sure, all the bugs are gone but then you open up your pantry and there’s popcorn everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/80 "2009-03-24T12:58:52Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Sure, all the bugs are gone but then you open up your pantry and there’s popcorn everywhere. Sounds like a win-win to me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=5)