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Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues

(Thanks to The Perts and Ron T)

Comments

[ripleysparrow]

It is time to appoint a Bedbug Czar.

[cfjk]

In their defense, you know what the say about politics and strange bedfellows.

[MOTW]

The MOTW family lived through bedbugs and it took 4 treatments before they were finally killed. Had to replace all upholstered furniture, mattress and box springs, buy bug-proof mattress covers .. we tore out the carpet from the last two rooms in the house that had carpet and lived on concrete sub-floors until we were cleared. People throw this phrase around, "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" but I mean that with all my heart. Bedbugs can live a YEAR without feeding, so if they can dive into furniture or walls to escape fumigation, they will survive. Our extensive library was boxed up and stored in the garage for a couple years to make sure they wouldn't survive if they were in there.

[cfjk]

Don't they employ a high temp strategy to eradicate them now?

[MOTW]

@cjfk - that was more of a theory when we went through it. The national brand (rhymes with Blerminex) who quoted the heat treatment wanted $2000 more than the other place.

Years later, a co-worker had the heat treatment. They have to heat the entire house and any belongings to 120 degrees F and keep it there for a minimum of 1 hour. He said it took DAYS for the house to cool down enough to walk inside and longer before they could stay there again. Think what it would take to heat a basement and one floor .. or two stories. It warped anything that wasn't glass or metal. Yes, it worked for him.

[YFNRW (your friendly neighborhood reference wench)]

Political interests can bring together people who otherwise have little in common. This saying is adapted from a line in the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare: “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
It is spoken by a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping monster.

[cfjk]

@ MOTW & YFNRW Thanx for the updates! Even stranger, was just listening to the latest DarkJournalist (DJLiszt) vid where he was reading an expended passage of Prospero from The Tempest. To quote Cliff_High "The universe provides".

[cfjk]

expanded + extended = expended? (or not)

[man tom]

Remember what Napoleon said, "Burning Joan of Arc didn't soulager the problem. Round up all the adult females and clop off their heads. Use the micro-guillotine we captured at The Battle of Orkin."

[Pullet Surprise]

A tip of the cap to cfjk but with a slight variation of your post: "Politics and strange bedbugs ..."

And another 'take that' for all the learned posters: "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian." sayeth Ishmael in 'Moby Dick", Chapter 3 - The Spoutter-Inn. I called him (Ishmael) and he said "I did sayeth that." He did not say anything about bed bugs but then they were after bigger fish.

[Meanie the Blue]

Mammals.