Posted on 10/01/2010 2:21:56 PM PDT by La Lydia
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is a post-9/11 fortress. If you don’t have proper clearance to get into the structure’s federal offices, you’ll get stopped and turned away. Bedbugs apparently get a pass.bA band of juvenile bedbugs has taken roost in an office suite in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tower of the Reagan Building, according to an e-mail obtained by TBD.
USAID employees were told in the e-mail that they hadn’t received reports of bedbugs in other locations in the building.
“Nevertheless, on Friday, October 1st, at 10:00, GSA will be utilizing a professional pest control service, including a specialized K-9 team, to inspect the USAID office space,” the e-mail states. “GSA will also be investigating adjacent areas, janitorial closets, and restroom facilities to identity any infestation areas.”
A USAID media representative has confirmed that the e-mail is authentic. A telephone message left for a manager of the Reagan Reagan Building was not immediately returned.
"Any identified areas will be treated over the weekend and follow-up treatment will be provided as needed," a USAID media representative said in an e-mail, which also noted that USAID and the General Services Administration "will continue to be proactive to prevent any future bed bug activity."
The e-mail to USAID also included an attachment with information on bedbugs in the workplace. ...
I thought all the bugs in DC were at the Watergate?
Hmmmm.... bedbugs in DC.
Is it possible there’s something even more disgusting than a Democrat?
Don’t want the govt. employees to get bitten while they’re sleeping on the taxpayers dime.
Seems we really have become a third-world nation.
>>>>Seems we really have become a third-world nation
This is because of failure to control the Mexican border. Putting US troops at the border will stop the illegal immigrants and the bugs.
If we can irradiate food, we can irradiate buildings using robots. I recommend doing it at night, when no one is there.
Oh, wait...OK, let's do it. :)
We keep admitting bums from 3rd World countries. This means their disease and their bugs. I read Howard Stern’s studio also is infested with bedbugs.
Death,war, famine, pestilence
Have you noticed some of the abnormal stuff that has happened since PharObama took office?
Floods, blizzards, heat waves, stink and bed bug infestations. Maybe the 10 plagues have been judged upon us? I suggest those living along the Potomac River keep watch for a drastic increase in frogs and definitely halt the water sports if it turns to blood.
Are bed bugs worse than cockroaches?
Are bed bugs worse than cockroaches?
I heard last night (Coast to Coast) that the best way to kill these nuisances is high heat. They die at 114 degrees.
The trouble is that it is very expensive to get the proper equipment in to do this...
Whew! We’re safe here then. Hubby swears that’s what I set the thermostat on after he leaves for work in the winter. ;)
I’d think there’d be a boom market for such equipment—and the price could come down? I could almost see such equipment being brought in, say, monthly for apartment buildings.
Post of the night. Bravo. Let any diseased Tom, Dick or Enrique in here and why wouldn’t we have a vermin infestation?
“Are bedbugs worse than cockroaches?’’ Well, for sheer ugliness and grossness it hard to beat a cockroach. And cockroaches do carry salmonella . However cockroaches don’t bite humans. bedbugs do. I’m not sure of the condition their bit causes but it’s harmful to humans.
Howard Stern, the shock jock? Probably crabs, not bedbugs.
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