Posted on 09/04/2012 6:04:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.........Hotels contacted by The Washington Times about bedbug reports either referred calls to their corporate headquarters or didn’t return messages.
Charlotte has a long way to go before its bedbug levels approach cities such as New York, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., where recent infestations have made national news, but a study this year by pest control company Orkin shows activity there has been on the rise.
The survey, released in March, rated Charlotte as having the 33rd-most bedbug reports of any city in 2011. The list was topped by Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit.
By contrast, the GOP’s choice for its convention last week, Tampa, Fla., didn’t make the list of the 50 most-infested cities.
Jung W. Kim, environmental senior specialist for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said that bedbugs are on the rise, but about half of cases go unreported because victims don’t react to bites.
Mr. Kim said upon checking into a hotel, guests should inspect their mattress, box spring and the back of their headboard for bedbug fecal matter in the form of tiny black dots......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
>>> The Knights Inn was the worst hotel I have ever seen, and I’ve stayed in many bad motels in my life. Two guys were dealing drugs in the room next to me, and a prostitute was working out of the parking lot. And this was in the early afternoon. The room itself was dirty, full of other people’s stuff, etc.
I have never requested a hotel change in 3 years at NR. This was the first time I felt absolutely compelled.<<<
It’s not as if the DNC couldn’t have figured out something was wrong with the properties. TripAdvisor had these recent comments on one of the Knights Inn properties: “wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy,” “scared to death,” and “pimps and prostitutes at night.”....
Its a good bet that the bedbugs and the Democrat delegates arrived in North Carolina at the same time.
I would be less concerned about the bedbugs and more concerned about the demoncrats being in the bed....
We’ve been trying to fumigate the country and rid us of them but they keep coming back.....
Dangerous little pests.....
That is the demoncrats.....
This appears to be the first raising of concern for NC having a bedbug problem....
The biggest problem invovles the bedbugs who check in and pay the bills.
I’m sure the DNC did it on purpose to the National Review and other conservative media. These people are punks, they show no respect for ‘convention’. Someone’s idea of a bad joke...perhaps. But the people in that pack are malicious. I wouldn’t put it past them to pull a stunt like that.
Either that or the DNC is really REALLY short on funds..
63 days.
We’ve been trying to fumigate the country and rid us of them but they keep coming back.....
Both of them became a problem after DDT was pulled from use.
We need to bring DDT back!
Well, you know what the DNC’ers say...
One bed bug equals one vote.
I’d be willing to bet the bedbug problem gets worse following the convention.
The people in Charlotte ought to keep an eye out for Cooties too!
Note: Spraying the matresses with DDT is guaranteed to eliminate bed bugs. Ain’t progress wonderful. 40 years ago there would have been no problem.
“Dangerous little pests.....That is the demoncrats.....
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Yea, How do you tell a bedbug from a dimocrap?
After the DNC there will probably be bed bug and flea problems in Charlotte hotels.
Considering it is a democrat convention, I’m sure a few will go home with a new itch or a burning sensation. lol
The Roaches that have arrived for the DNC will drive the bedbugs out....
Good. Eat up bedbugs. Enjoy!
DDT wiped out the bed bugs 50-60 years ago. However they are now allegedly resistant to it. The missing weapon accounting for their resurgence supposedly isn’t DDT (banned by Nixon), but a couple of other pesticides banned by Clinton’s EPA in the 90s.
Ugh. I was checking in at a hotel in TX and the guest services rep was on her walkie talkie with maintenance complaining about ‘unauthorized guests’ in a room. I wondered out loud what constituted ‘unauthorized’ and she sheepishly admitted that those were code words for bedbugs.
We checked into another hotel without any fuss from that hotel.
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