Posted on 04/12/2005 3:55:17 PM PDT by KJC1
A Florida couple was treated after being bitten by hundreds of bed bugs during a vacation cruise on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, according to Local 6 News.
Alan and Nathalie Wasserstorm said their vacation aboard the Royal Caribbean's Jewel of the Seas was ruined by the infestation of bed bugs.
"I was in such disbelief at first, you know, I mean, it was hundreds and hundreds of bugs, we had leaned against all the night before, I mean it literally made my skin crawl," Alan Wasserstorm said.
The couple moved to another room on the ship but it was too late, according to the report.
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Perhaps they brought their own supply of bugs? Ala finger in the chili...
Reminds me of the time in ’61 when I crossed the Pacific on the troop ship USS General Breckinridge. Infested from stem to stern with crabs, it was. Needless to say, a most miserable crossing.
Heheh....right above this thread is one that reads "Citizenship Up for Grabs"--- The Supreme Court and Immigration and I SWEAR it said "Citizenship Up for Crabs" :o)
Where did the bedbugs come from? Why was only one room affected? Don't they spray these rooms between sailings?
Sue me already. Our court date is in 3 weeks in Monrovia, Liberia.
The Bug Boat. It needs to be captained by the Orkin Man.
Something ain't right about this story. Any doctors out there who can shed some light on this?
..... I think the authorities wish to DNA the lady's mother.....
DNA, noun, dioxyribonucleic acid........ just became a verb.
Did they also find a half of a human finger in the bed also?
Easy...never venture on board a veritable floating third world nation.
Years ago in the 30's bedbugs at rented Cabins while traveling were a pretty common thing, lately I hadnt heard of any infestations of these mechanised dandruff...
Read an article w/in the last year or so that bedbugs are becoming more & more of a problem. I truthfully didn't know they were 'real' until I read that article...just thought it was a silly little saying along the lines of the Boogey Man.
Nah.
For an infestation of bugs like that, clearly they needed to unleash spiders. Hundreds and hundreds of spiders on the bed, to eat the bed bugs, of course. Then, once the bedbugs were gone, the spiders would just crawl under the bed, since there'd be nothing left to eat. And a couple hundred spiders under the bed wouldn't bother anyone, now, would it?
Yes bedbugs are usually brought in by a former occupant who has them at home. Mostly from bad sanitary habits on the part of the carrier.
Bedbugs infest dirty houses, particularly mattresses, and feed off human blood. Their bite typically causes a large, reddened and itchy wheal.
Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says.
First clue was when the crew told them to "sleep tight..."
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