# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/81 "2009-03-24T13:31:29Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Sure, all the bugs are gone but then you open up your pantry and there’s popcorn everywhere. OK God…lemme have it! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/82 "2009-03-24T13:50:47Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Goddamn you… goddamn you… From an Isopod website: > [@](#): > > The Isopods feeding habits are extremely diverse. Some groups are **parasitic** and some **travel in large groups at night**. > **[Deep Sea Isopod: WhoZoo](https://www.whozoo.org/Anlife2001/chelsy/clh_Bathynomus.htm)** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/83 "2009-03-24T13:53:07Z")
The bedbug in the box spring: I BURNING YOUR MATTRESS! ---
**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, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/84 "2009-03-24T14:05:07Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > But what about the ones who will dive down at you from the ceiling? What are you doing about THEM? The second moat is around the base of the walls, to prevent them from being scaled. Thanks for your concern. Also, I am sleeping in a wetsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/85 "2009-03-24T14:09:38Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > Also, I am sleeping in a wetsuit. Sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/86 "2009-03-24T15:17:29Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > Sounds like a win-win to me! Yeah, but all the M&Ms are melted:mad: ---
**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 24, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/87 "2009-03-24T15:24:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Yeah, but all the M&Ms are melted:mad: So the slogan should be; “Melts in your houth, not in your hands”. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/88 "2009-03-24T15:35:29Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > "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. Yeah, you know she was asking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/89 "2009-03-24T15:42:13Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, you know she was asking for it. That bedbug should have dressed more modestly. ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/90 "2009-03-24T16:40:09Z")
> [@Amblydoper](#): > > 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? Box spring. And the seller has torn the thing apart and “found no trace of bedbugs”. Also, my mattress, which he “volunteered to sanitize” has “no sign of bedbugs”. I’m probably out the price of my bedding. **I’ve been punked**.:mad::mad: In addition, my Father is obdurate–he will not permit exterminators in the house. Either Reality is what he says it is, or he doesn’t understand the problem. On the plus side, I found Diamacious Earth & bugbug spray for sale near my home, and ordered some from Amazon. ---
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/91 "2009-03-24T16:47:30Z")
So weird, Darwin-wise! One would think an aversion to the Urge to Merge would be an express ticket to extinction. Apparently, the lack of a need for hitting a specific target somewhat makes up for this, but the Goddess must have been drunk that day. ---
**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, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/92 "2009-03-24T17:50:49Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > The second moat is around the base of the walls, to prevent them from being scaled. Thanks for your concern. Also, I am sleeping in a wetsuit. That’s good to know. I’m glad that you are taking only the appropriate measures, and are not acting paranoid at all. I’ve never had bedbugs, but I’m sure that I’d have at least two moats of DE, too. Maybe I should go find some and stock up, since the bedbugs are apparently rallying. ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/93 "2009-03-24T17:51:14Z")
**Bosda** -for godsakes, stand up to your father-Jesus Christ! You have an infestation in your house! Tell him you’re paying for it and that’s that! Shit, my dad would be pissed that I brought the damned things into the house, but he wouldn’t be so fucking stupid? How old is he, anyways? And as someone said, you found out they were USED. And now you’re trusting the seller again, even though he lied and said they were new? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/94 "2009-03-24T18:30:44Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > The bedbug in the box spring: I BURNING YOUR MATTRESS! Oh my god. Please start this site. [LOLbedbugz.com](http://LOLbedbugz.com). You’ll make a mill(ion New Yorkers squirm with disgust/delight). ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/95 "2009-03-24T18:41:02Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I sort of think of them as looking like this: [Giant isopod - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod) > > 😉 I hate you. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/96 "2009-03-24T18:51:25Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > I hate you. If it was up to me, I’ll call those things “Tiny Isopods”. That would make people think. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/97 "2009-03-24T19:32:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **Bosda** -for godsakes, stand up to your father-Jesus Christ! You have an infestation in your house! Tell him you’re paying for it and that’s that! Shit, my dad would be pissed that I brought the damned things into the house, but he wouldn’t be so fucking stupid? > > How old is he, anyways? > > And as someone said, you found out they were USED. And now you’re trusting the seller again, even though he lied and said they were new? Really. My dad would have pulled out all the stops to get rid of the little creeps. So would I. There souldn’t be any need for discussion. You have bugs. Kill them. No discussion. The end. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/98 "2009-03-24T20:08:27Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > I am now sleeping in a claw-foot bathtup in the middle of the room, surrounded by a double moat of diatomaceous earth. So, baby, what’s your sign? Why yes, I AM trying to sleep with you. Why do you ask? But I don’t think we’ll get much sleep, if you know what I mean, wink wink. Because really, who the fuck could sleep with the possibility of needle-dicked little insect rapists dropping from the ceiling? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/99 "2009-03-24T20:14:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **Bosda** -for godsakes, stand up to your father-Jesus Christ! Or move out. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341/100 "2009-03-24T20:18:10Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Or move out. I can’t speak for **Bosda** , but I believe that his father has some sort of dementia and is dependent. It’s a sad situation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedbugs-piss-on-the-matress-store-guy/490341.md?page=6)