In the New York Daily News, a letter by Howard Scott Pearlman extols Borax:
"Borax has the ability to get on insects' skin and then suck the moisture out of their bodies. If you do laundry with borax soap powder, your clothes and sheets get a borax residue on them. Unsuspecting bedbugs pick up that residue and take it back to their nests, where all their nasty little friends meet Mr. Borax, dry out and die. Borax soap powder can also be sprinkled on carpeting and left for days, providing you do not have small children or pets that will eat it."
27 January, 2011.
It may or may not work, I would assume that they would get hungrier (or thirstier...) and go for more blood...on average adults eat once a week. They can fast for over a year.
Vaguely I recall borax being illegal to use in New York as a powdered bug deterrent, but I am not sure. But this is worth knowing about. My own flat has seen a decrease in the bugs, which I attribute to more use of ziploc bags and therefore loss of habitat.
Also, is this a free ad for a product - or is it reality? I wonder if it only makes the critters hungry, and rather than dry out and die, they just go for more blood. At least Mr. Pearlman is not selling us on DDT.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, November 22, 2010
Just seen: a spoof cartoon in Chinese? about bedbugs taking over New York City. It features Penn Station, which is near the infamous Vigilant...and it also features a cartoon character named Vigilante...its premise is that bedbugs are taking over NY, and a similar cartoon from the Orient is making outright fun of America as bedbugs are taking over...
It does make me wonder if maybe the owners of the Vigilant are not sabotage agents who are out to destroy New York or America, as they are in such flagrant contempt of court by refusing to even cover garbage cans that they are certainly aiding and abetting the enemy: Cimex lectularius.
Added to that, they evicted a US paratrooper, Chris Lugo, for trying to get rid of bedbugs the very first night they were there.
If New York had a normal mayor and normal housing court, the Vigilant would be dealt with. But this is a town full of spies...just ask Anna Chapman. So who knows, maybe America is under attack and no one cares, not even the New York papers who turned up their nose at the story...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Of bugs and nerds
Joanna Molloy yesterday and today held forth in the NY Daily News about the bedbug convention in Chicago...which she thinks is for nerds. She cites some interesting characters, including one US Army researcher, Harold Harlan, who let the bugs bite his legs for 30 years...he harvested them at Fort Dix in 1970. Now they are at Camp LeJeune. The enemy is within the gates...
And within another Nike store. This seems strange. Lightning strikes twice in the case of Nike and Abercrombie & Fitch. How do bedbugs get into places where there are no beds? Such as the Empire State Building and all the government offices in Manhattan (according to Gale Brewer).
Molloy talks about the sex lives of Cimex - which is about as disgusting as it gets; males like to mate once a minute - with any other Cimex, regardless of its age or sex...they cut through the abdomen of the females and just go at it. Apparently, the female of the species has no, what does on call it - cloaca? Or is that just for the birds?
Most interestingly she notes that Dr Stephen Kells of the University of Minnesota dipped a bug in some pesticide, and it lived on and even laid eggs...in my building they seem to be more prolific after spraying...which is ineffective.
What her article does not mention is heat...heat works. Get the temp up to 113 Farenheit, don't spray wasteful chemicals, and be done with them once and for all. Any article or post on this subject ought to contain that information, it is crucial. All the factoids about their sex lives etc. are just interesting but not what we really need to hear.
By the way, I will contact her and see if she is willing to do the city a service by writing about the Vigilant Hotel, not far from her offices. If that place, called Ground Zero, can be treated with heat and kept under watch by the city, it will make a large difference. Is this journalists willing to help us out? We'll know soon.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
TURN ON THE HEAT!
The new super today wanted to know if I was going to have the spray in my room...the landlord gave me note after note asking me to get all my stuff out...when I took stuff out the last time, they refused to spray till I had everything out in the hall for people to steal. I took enough out to spray but they refused. It seems to be a ploy for them to have me vacate, then lock me out and throw me out.
But whatever, the sprays do not work. They are a way of placating people and getting on record some action so landlords can avoid taking real action. As they benefit large chemical companies, there is a conspiracy of silence in a world run by billionaire idiot politicians. Ooops, did I say idiot? Yes I did, and since this is my blog, that is not going to be deleted as were my comments on www.bedbugger.com. They also deleted a very pertinent comment I made about druggies being a danger to society when they walk around spreading bedbugs...I wonder who runs that site. What I do not see often there is real mention of how to get rid of bugs...#1 is heat, as TIME and other publications tell you - going so far as to mention that chemical sprays, especially DDT - are ineffective. Turn up the heat to 114 degrees Farenheit, and you will quash the bug. End of problem. It really is that simple.
#2, or maybe it ought to be #1, is cleanliness.
#3 is ziploc everything they may get into, on this blog I spotted where in Manhattan one can buy ziplocs up to 20 gallon size.
What does it take for politicians, journalists and anonymous commentators to act? Are they deliberately trying to talk over the facts so that this bedbug epidemic lasts and lasts, an endless opportunity to sell chemicals? That has happened in the past; William Farish (grandpa of WF III, who was Bush's appointee as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James') was indicted for working with Standard Oil to prolong WWII so they could make more profits...this happens all the time...Philip Habib in the Pentagon surpressed good intel about Hanoi which led to troop inaction and the prolonging of the Vietnam War...and what about this nice little profitable war halfway around the world? Profits for chemical companies...more napalm...depleted uranium which has poisoned hundreds of thousands of US troops...
The war on bugs could be won in weeks, with a government initiative to heat buildings that are government run or low income. Information on cleanliness and ziploc bags could be disseminated, with free bags to low income people.
But that would end this crisis. The Daily News, the NY Post, and the NY Times have not shown any interest in ending it, and I wonder about the site, www.bedbugger.com
So attack me if you want, it is obvious I am making enemies here; oh the gentlre art of making enemies! But it has to be done. Or else we will have millions of enemies crawling up our backs at night.
But whatever, the sprays do not work. They are a way of placating people and getting on record some action so landlords can avoid taking real action. As they benefit large chemical companies, there is a conspiracy of silence in a world run by billionaire idiot politicians. Ooops, did I say idiot? Yes I did, and since this is my blog, that is not going to be deleted as were my comments on www.bedbugger.com. They also deleted a very pertinent comment I made about druggies being a danger to society when they walk around spreading bedbugs...I wonder who runs that site. What I do not see often there is real mention of how to get rid of bugs...#1 is heat, as TIME and other publications tell you - going so far as to mention that chemical sprays, especially DDT - are ineffective. Turn up the heat to 114 degrees Farenheit, and you will quash the bug. End of problem. It really is that simple.
#2, or maybe it ought to be #1, is cleanliness.
#3 is ziploc everything they may get into, on this blog I spotted where in Manhattan one can buy ziplocs up to 20 gallon size.
What does it take for politicians, journalists and anonymous commentators to act? Are they deliberately trying to talk over the facts so that this bedbug epidemic lasts and lasts, an endless opportunity to sell chemicals? That has happened in the past; William Farish (grandpa of WF III, who was Bush's appointee as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James') was indicted for working with Standard Oil to prolong WWII so they could make more profits...this happens all the time...Philip Habib in the Pentagon surpressed good intel about Hanoi which led to troop inaction and the prolonging of the Vietnam War...and what about this nice little profitable war halfway around the world? Profits for chemical companies...more napalm...depleted uranium which has poisoned hundreds of thousands of US troops...
The war on bugs could be won in weeks, with a government initiative to heat buildings that are government run or low income. Information on cleanliness and ziploc bags could be disseminated, with free bags to low income people.
But that would end this crisis. The Daily News, the NY Post, and the NY Times have not shown any interest in ending it, and I wonder about the site, www.bedbugger.com
So attack me if you want, it is obvious I am making enemies here; oh the gentlre art of making enemies! But it has to be done. Or else we will have millions of enemies crawling up our backs at night.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
TIME article on bugs
Nina Burleigh, pp. 63-64 of TIME, writes on bedbugs, which she first encountered in Italy. She has done good research, and adds to the consensus that most sprays are not an answer, but heat is; 113 degrees Farenheit. Which she notes costs thousands of dollars; does it really? I mean, to leave a few burners on in a room for at most a few hours? Methinks they doth charge too much, whoever is running this operation. In this case, maybe the local governments could allocate money to get such apparatus and just do the jobs with taxpayers' money, as it is in the public interest. People ought not to have to take out a loan to get free of bugs.
The problem is growing out of control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the EPA, and the Department of Defense are all involved. Why the latter? Because this is a real and present danger. If it continues to infest the US, it will bring the US to a halt. People in Ohio sleep outside so bad are the bugs in their houses.
In NY, the press continues to sleep, copying the odd press release from AP, or trying to sell us DDT (which TIME notes is useless). I went to the offices of the Daily News on Thursday, only to be shut out. I called them, and no one wanted to give a name or tell me why they were ignoring a story about the building down the road from them where former servicemen are evicted for cleaning; and where thousands of bugs leave each day to infest America. I guess the Daily News does not care about America or its servicemen. They do care about themselves, with high security all over that building. It's like trying to talk to scared sissies. What are they afraid of? All I had in my hands was the article from the Epoch Times...and of course the dangerous weapons os sarcasm...way too much for them to take. When I asked their names they refused to be identified. What stinking cowards.
The Post did a lengthy piece this week by a rich person - they seem to do one whenever someone rich or trendy gets a bug - who also did not want to be identified - writing under the nom de plume of Cordelia von Bedbug. I wonder if any of it was even true. But that may be just my cynical nature. Which may be due in part to the fact that crackheads write major stories in the press here in NY that are not true or are stolen from other journalists - just ask Jayson Blair of the New York Times; from which I am still waiting to hear back.
In the meantime, I have fired off a letter to Christine Quinn, one of the most powerful politicians in NYC - and so we will see what she does about this. BTW, the building is a one minute walk from her office...
The problem is growing out of control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the EPA, and the Department of Defense are all involved. Why the latter? Because this is a real and present danger. If it continues to infest the US, it will bring the US to a halt. People in Ohio sleep outside so bad are the bugs in their houses.
In NY, the press continues to sleep, copying the odd press release from AP, or trying to sell us DDT (which TIME notes is useless). I went to the offices of the Daily News on Thursday, only to be shut out. I called them, and no one wanted to give a name or tell me why they were ignoring a story about the building down the road from them where former servicemen are evicted for cleaning; and where thousands of bugs leave each day to infest America. I guess the Daily News does not care about America or its servicemen. They do care about themselves, with high security all over that building. It's like trying to talk to scared sissies. What are they afraid of? All I had in my hands was the article from the Epoch Times...and of course the dangerous weapons os sarcasm...way too much for them to take. When I asked their names they refused to be identified. What stinking cowards.
The Post did a lengthy piece this week by a rich person - they seem to do one whenever someone rich or trendy gets a bug - who also did not want to be identified - writing under the nom de plume of Cordelia von Bedbug. I wonder if any of it was even true. But that may be just my cynical nature. Which may be due in part to the fact that crackheads write major stories in the press here in NY that are not true or are stolen from other journalists - just ask Jayson Blair of the New York Times; from which I am still waiting to hear back.
In the meantime, I have fired off a letter to Christine Quinn, one of the most powerful politicians in NYC - and so we will see what she does about this. BTW, the building is a one minute walk from her office...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Front page story about bedbugs in Epoch Times
Today the NY Daily News noted that NY was the city that did not sleep because of bedbugs, and that it had the prize for being #1 in the US, followed by Philadelphia.
The Epoch Times did a large front page article about where they are in NY, and how to get rid of them. And I helped with that article. It is not often I am surprised by a journalist's diligence - Justin Brown is one reporter who did a great job (and got fired for it after questioning the local politicians in his reporting on the Kenmore Hotel in NY), and Genevieve Roberts at the Independent/Evening Standard in London are two stars in that world, which for the most part I find lackluster. Now Andrea Hayley shines in my opinion. She took weeks to do this story, looked up the science on the subject, talked to a number of experts and politicians, and actually snuck into a male only establishment late at night to get her scoop.
The site of her clandestine nocturnal escapades is the Vigilant Hotel, situated at 370 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. It is where I collected 4,000 bebugs in one room in 4 months. From its portals it is estimated that a steady stream of 2,000 bugs a week leave on the residents and the trash. And this has been going on for years, so it is thought by many to be the 'Ground Zero' of New York's epidemic.
For some reason management does not want residents to clean it; former paratrooper Chris Lugo was told to leave immediately after trying to clean his room of bugs, thousands of them he notes in the article.
To be fair to the owner, Hayley called the hotel and interviewed the manager, Mike Snell, who tried somewhat to defend the situation. But there is not much defence here - not for a place where garbage cans go uncovered and mice play in them all the time. Not in a place that evicts people for cleaning. Not in a place where the ceiling style of the rooms harbours mice and bugs - they refuse a court order to change this.
So what are New Yorkers to do about this place that breeds bedbugs? Possibly nothing. Which means that the bugs will win, they will come out and bite you, your babies, your pets, and anything with blood. They will defecate all over anything and leave their outer shells around when they moult. So, as Snell, the Vigilant manager seems to urge, just get used to it. Those are your options. Fight or die.
What things ought the city and its residents do? #1 is take over the Vigilant as a menace to society. Get a hold of the owners - Hayley notes that she couldn't quite track down 'Yumin Management' btb owned by Etsuko Takeuchi - and throw them out. As for individuals, thouroughly clean your apartment. Then get ziploc and snapshut bags and containers, place all papers in the bags and other things that might hide bugs in containers. Get sticky traps around the legs of your beds. And urge your legislators to close the Vigilant.
The Epoch Times did a large front page article about where they are in NY, and how to get rid of them. And I helped with that article. It is not often I am surprised by a journalist's diligence - Justin Brown is one reporter who did a great job (and got fired for it after questioning the local politicians in his reporting on the Kenmore Hotel in NY), and Genevieve Roberts at the Independent/Evening Standard in London are two stars in that world, which for the most part I find lackluster. Now Andrea Hayley shines in my opinion. She took weeks to do this story, looked up the science on the subject, talked to a number of experts and politicians, and actually snuck into a male only establishment late at night to get her scoop.
The site of her clandestine nocturnal escapades is the Vigilant Hotel, situated at 370 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. It is where I collected 4,000 bebugs in one room in 4 months. From its portals it is estimated that a steady stream of 2,000 bugs a week leave on the residents and the trash. And this has been going on for years, so it is thought by many to be the 'Ground Zero' of New York's epidemic.
For some reason management does not want residents to clean it; former paratrooper Chris Lugo was told to leave immediately after trying to clean his room of bugs, thousands of them he notes in the article.
To be fair to the owner, Hayley called the hotel and interviewed the manager, Mike Snell, who tried somewhat to defend the situation. But there is not much defence here - not for a place where garbage cans go uncovered and mice play in them all the time. Not in a place that evicts people for cleaning. Not in a place where the ceiling style of the rooms harbours mice and bugs - they refuse a court order to change this.
So what are New Yorkers to do about this place that breeds bedbugs? Possibly nothing. Which means that the bugs will win, they will come out and bite you, your babies, your pets, and anything with blood. They will defecate all over anything and leave their outer shells around when they moult. So, as Snell, the Vigilant manager seems to urge, just get used to it. Those are your options. Fight or die.
What things ought the city and its residents do? #1 is take over the Vigilant as a menace to society. Get a hold of the owners - Hayley notes that she couldn't quite track down 'Yumin Management' btb owned by Etsuko Takeuchi - and throw them out. As for individuals, thouroughly clean your apartment. Then get ziploc and snapshut bags and containers, place all papers in the bags and other things that might hide bugs in containers. Get sticky traps around the legs of your beds. And urge your legislators to close the Vigilant.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Recent News on bedbugs in New York
The front page of the New York Times carried a story about the 'social stigma' of bedbugs...
it seems Jeremy Sparig is, in the words of some, a "mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times."
If so, Sparig has losers for friends. I will be mentioned in an upcoming article and am not afraid to tell people who I am. For one thing, it's hard to fight this and be anomymous. That's for cowards. Sparig says he is like a leper...
No one having to fight bedbugs ought to go through this. They are not contagious, and if one is clean, and washes out one's clothes, they do not need to travel with you. They hitch no rides on me, I was in the military where we learned to fight these things by being neat. The first thing we did in bootcamp was fold our shirts in equal thirds. So it is not hard to keep the bugs at bay, or at least at home. And then we had ratguards on all the ships, which is a good idea, and can be copied in designing bug-guards around the legs of the bed.
My landlord was probably counting on this fear to keep people from coming forward, many work in some famous places and would not want their boss to know, so I guess it's fair to say some people ought to remain anomymous, but for everyone to do so is cowardice. There is a plague upon the city and the men must be men and stand up and fight it.
Some stories from Thursday and Friday include a note in the amNewY0rk about bedbugs biting in the Times Square AMC 25-plex. Movies theatres are prime targets, and anyone wise would stay out of them. Use common sense: rent a DVD and watch it at home. The AMC did not replaces all its seats - and bedbugs run fast and spread. In a minute they can go the length of a room, so taking out two seats is just a joke. AMC Magic Johnson theatres in Harlem also got them: word to the wise, stay away, unless you want to give blood to these creatures of darkness. And, as I just read in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, they can live for 15 months without food. So they may lurk for over a year in these dark spaces full of carpets, soft seats, curtains, and other places of interest to the bloodsuckers.The Daily News had much the same story, with Erica Pearson, presumably the same Erica who did not ever get back in touch with me, contributing. It seems it takes two journalists to write 250 words...the story also says that the bugs are hitting prisoners in Riker's. So, don't do the crime unless you want lots of weird looking cell mates. In the Metro, Amy Zimmer says they will be as common as mosquitos. And unless we get Bloomberg to act right away, they will be...even more, as bedbugs are year round pests - do not believe the stupid stuff some journalists are telling you about them hybernating in winter...they are less numerous, but they bite all year round; nor are they nocturnal - they come out when their meal is sleeping, but if you sleep during the day, well, there is no rest to these wicked creatures. You will be eaten alive day or night. Journalists ought to check facts more.
Boy am I mean on the hacks! But they deserve it. The truth about bedbugs, and their HQ on 8th Avenue, known to locals as Ground Zero, ought to have been printed long time ago. But it is being printed now, I hear it will be in on Wednesday, but do not waste your time looking in the Daily News of the NY Post...the reporter has been on this for weeks and will give their readers something worth reading.
And then I expect to hear back from Mayor Bloomberg, and others who do not seem to know how to do their jobs.
it seems Jeremy Sparig is, in the words of some, a "mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times."
If so, Sparig has losers for friends. I will be mentioned in an upcoming article and am not afraid to tell people who I am. For one thing, it's hard to fight this and be anomymous. That's for cowards. Sparig says he is like a leper...
No one having to fight bedbugs ought to go through this. They are not contagious, and if one is clean, and washes out one's clothes, they do not need to travel with you. They hitch no rides on me, I was in the military where we learned to fight these things by being neat. The first thing we did in bootcamp was fold our shirts in equal thirds. So it is not hard to keep the bugs at bay, or at least at home. And then we had ratguards on all the ships, which is a good idea, and can be copied in designing bug-guards around the legs of the bed.
My landlord was probably counting on this fear to keep people from coming forward, many work in some famous places and would not want their boss to know, so I guess it's fair to say some people ought to remain anomymous, but for everyone to do so is cowardice. There is a plague upon the city and the men must be men and stand up and fight it.
Some stories from Thursday and Friday include a note in the amNewY0rk about bedbugs biting in the Times Square AMC 25-plex. Movies theatres are prime targets, and anyone wise would stay out of them. Use common sense: rent a DVD and watch it at home. The AMC did not replaces all its seats - and bedbugs run fast and spread. In a minute they can go the length of a room, so taking out two seats is just a joke. AMC Magic Johnson theatres in Harlem also got them: word to the wise, stay away, unless you want to give blood to these creatures of darkness. And, as I just read in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, they can live for 15 months without food. So they may lurk for over a year in these dark spaces full of carpets, soft seats, curtains, and other places of interest to the bloodsuckers.The Daily News had much the same story, with Erica Pearson, presumably the same Erica who did not ever get back in touch with me, contributing. It seems it takes two journalists to write 250 words...the story also says that the bugs are hitting prisoners in Riker's. So, don't do the crime unless you want lots of weird looking cell mates. In the Metro, Amy Zimmer says they will be as common as mosquitos. And unless we get Bloomberg to act right away, they will be...even more, as bedbugs are year round pests - do not believe the stupid stuff some journalists are telling you about them hybernating in winter...they are less numerous, but they bite all year round; nor are they nocturnal - they come out when their meal is sleeping, but if you sleep during the day, well, there is no rest to these wicked creatures. You will be eaten alive day or night. Journalists ought to check facts more.
Boy am I mean on the hacks! But they deserve it. The truth about bedbugs, and their HQ on 8th Avenue, known to locals as Ground Zero, ought to have been printed long time ago. But it is being printed now, I hear it will be in on Wednesday, but do not waste your time looking in the Daily News of the NY Post...the reporter has been on this for weeks and will give their readers something worth reading.
And then I expect to hear back from Mayor Bloomberg, and others who do not seem to know how to do their jobs.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Daily bedbugs stories in Daily News
Looks like the Daily News does not care enough to send a reporter round to the 'Ground Zero' around the corner almost from their offices, but they do like to do stories and cartoons on bugs...Yesterday's paper carried on p.6 a story about Jeremy Sparig, who won the right not to pay almost a years' rent in B'klyn where his apt. was infested. His was a sad tale, but nothing like what we are experiencing near the Daily News offices.
Then they had a cartoon about a couple in bed with the bugs on p.21. Today They mentioned again that bugs haunt the offices of the DA in B'klyn - p.3 - noting that the Secret Service has offices there. So thanks, now Al Qaida knows where the USSS is located in NY. Not so secret evidently...
But while the DN is telling Al Qaida where the USSS is, they are keeping secret the fact that bedbugs are in ALMOST EVERY GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN MANHATTAN - I got that surprising bit when the journalist called me to tell me they had spoken with Gale Brewer, the bedbugs advocate for NY; I happen not to be in her constituency, but in Christien Quinn's, and we will be having a word with Ms. Quinn.
This journalist is really on to this story, which we think will run as a serial as it is really too large to put in one article.
Then they had a cartoon about a couple in bed with the bugs on p.21. Today They mentioned again that bugs haunt the offices of the DA in B'klyn - p.3 - noting that the Secret Service has offices there. So thanks, now Al Qaida knows where the USSS is located in NY. Not so secret evidently...
But while the DN is telling Al Qaida where the USSS is, they are keeping secret the fact that bedbugs are in ALMOST EVERY GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN MANHATTAN - I got that surprising bit when the journalist called me to tell me they had spoken with Gale Brewer, the bedbugs advocate for NY; I happen not to be in her constituency, but in Christien Quinn's, and we will be having a word with Ms. Quinn.
This journalist is really on to this story, which we think will run as a serial as it is really too large to put in one article.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Front page article in Daily News
Today the Daily News is in red, red for bugs that bite in the night...the front page announces what we could have guessed, that there are double the number of sufferers
they thought. So the previous figure on this blog of 400,000 is now superseded by ahe figure of 800,000 New Yorkers who suffer from these bugs, as cited by a Daily News-Marist poll.
It quotes Dan Kass, an assistant commissioner at the Dept. of Health: "There's not a lot of common knowledge about bedbugs...We're now at the point with the resurgence of bedbugs that everyone will have to start looking for them."
Well, duh. Sorry if I sound mean. And it took two journalists there to get this story out...they could have read this blog and known as much in 30 seconds.
And they could also have deduced that the city is not doing enough about it - their poll says 46% of New Yorkers think so.
The NYDN article does not get very specific, or tell us the names of any buildings with any major infestations. That is real journalism and is being left to a more capable paper to handle, so stay tuned to this site...
they thought. So the previous figure on this blog of 400,000 is now superseded by ahe figure of 800,000 New Yorkers who suffer from these bugs, as cited by a Daily News-Marist poll.
It quotes Dan Kass, an assistant commissioner at the Dept. of Health: "There's not a lot of common knowledge about bedbugs...We're now at the point with the resurgence of bedbugs that everyone will have to start looking for them."
Well, duh. Sorry if I sound mean. And it took two journalists there to get this story out...they could have read this blog and known as much in 30 seconds.
And they could also have deduced that the city is not doing enough about it - their poll says 46% of New Yorkers think so.
The NYDN article does not get very specific, or tell us the names of any buildings with any major infestations. That is real journalism and is being left to a more capable paper to handle, so stay tuned to this site...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Daily News story is no story
There was a story on this in the Daily News that was a non-story; it was about a place that had no bugs and wants no bugs. It got ambiguous when it referred to an infestation, which it had mentioned as non-existent. Get your facts straight. Or just get your facts. I can tell the Daily News that your reporters are below par – I called and emailed many times, spoke to Erica , spoke to Andrew Phillips, emailed others, and had a REAL STORY about a place that has easily thousands of bugs in a room, with over 100 rooms – I told them I could show them all this.
Did they email me back, meet me that day, or call?
NO, NO & NO.
So they ignored a serious story.
WHY?
Another paper sent in undercover journalists and has a real story. That paper is being very thorough, they are working with me on this very carefully, they put more than one reporter on the case, took pictures, and will have a REAL STORY. Not some ambiguous tale about a dog wagging. And that paper will do a real service; it is called preventative journalism. What the Daily News has is called junk. As someone who has lived here since my diaper days, I resent seeing papers like it waste our time. Get some real journalists on it to do some real stories that are of benefit to NY, then I’ll buy it. But till now, there is another paper in town that is working hard and delivering the news. Stay tuned here and I will post more on this...
Did they email me back, meet me that day, or call?
NO, NO & NO.
So they ignored a serious story.
WHY?
Another paper sent in undercover journalists and has a real story. That paper is being very thorough, they are working with me on this very carefully, they put more than one reporter on the case, took pictures, and will have a REAL STORY. Not some ambiguous tale about a dog wagging. And that paper will do a real service; it is called preventative journalism. What the Daily News has is called junk. As someone who has lived here since my diaper days, I resent seeing papers like it waste our time. Get some real journalists on it to do some real stories that are of benefit to NY, then I’ll buy it. But till now, there is another paper in town that is working hard and delivering the news. Stay tuned here and I will post more on this...
Friday, August 6, 2010
Shocking revelations on www.bedbugregistry.com
Talked to a journalist yesterday who surprised me, they had taken lots of notes and were studying bedbugregistry.com
That was a scary site, as it lists so many places I know, many in the vicinity of the place I am talking about on this site...from the map it would seem that they all may have gotten their infestations from the 8th Avenue building.
So where is Erica of the Daily News who took my email and said she was interested?
I want to start a hapless journalist registry and name and shame the idiots in the trade, some who cannot even spell in their articles.
Am I mean? Maybe...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Bedbugs on the books at Mid Manhattan Library
On bedbugger.com there is a recent post about finding bedbugs at the Mid Manhattan Library.
Well, no wonder; Cimex loves to read! And they love to breed in the spines of your books, moult
on them, and defecate all over the edges of the pages. Entire libraries can be at risk here.
So how is the press responding? Rather poorly. Bedbugs have recently been described erroneously on the CBC, with a picture of a beetle instead of a bedug...
But what do we expect from the 'churnalists'? Actually, I am talking to one now, or rather playing phone tag with one who just may do a rather good job. We will see soon. Hopefully the city will listen and close 'Ground Zero', which is what some people call the building on 8th Avenue near the offices of the Daily News (who have NOT responded to calls and emails about this problem.)
Well, no wonder; Cimex loves to read! And they love to breed in the spines of your books, moult
on them, and defecate all over the edges of the pages. Entire libraries can be at risk here.
So how is the press responding? Rather poorly. Bedbugs have recently been described erroneously on the CBC, with a picture of a beetle instead of a bedug...
But what do we expect from the 'churnalists'? Actually, I am talking to one now, or rather playing phone tag with one who just may do a rather good job. We will see soon. Hopefully the city will listen and close 'Ground Zero', which is what some people call the building on 8th Avenue near the offices of the Daily News (who have NOT responded to calls and emails about this problem.)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Conflict of interest in NYC bedbug board
While the press still pays no attention to the building with the thousands, possible millions of bedbugs, it pays attention to non-commital hype put out by politicians. The New York Daily News on 28 July had a small article, titled "City is biting back at pesky bugs", by Samuel Goldsmith and Adam Lisberg. It said that there would be a bug czar, but when it was not clear; neither did it say how much money was going into this game, as City Coucilwoman Gale Brewer (Upper West Side) could not tell the reporters.
What was mentioned that was telling was the fact that Gil Bloom, who is an advisory board member, is president of Standard Pest Management in Long Island City. So if bedbugs persist in the thousands of apartments, this guy makes money. It they stomp out the bug, he loses out. So no wonder the city is dragging its feet. My loud and plaintive cries for them to do something about this cell of jihadi bugs on 8th Avenue are being ignored while people involved make money, and could stand to make billions out of an epidemic.
What was mentioned that was telling was the fact that Gil Bloom, who is an advisory board member, is president of Standard Pest Management in Long Island City. So if bedbugs persist in the thousands of apartments, this guy makes money. It they stomp out the bug, he loses out. So no wonder the city is dragging its feet. My loud and plaintive cries for them to do something about this cell of jihadi bugs on 8th Avenue are being ignored while people involved make money, and could stand to make billions out of an epidemic.
Friday, July 30, 2010
War on Bugs is a scam
The front of the Metro yesterday carried the line "New York declares war against bed bugs."
It made me think of a funny story that goes like this. Japanese planes attack US Navy base in Pearl Harbor. The president calls the military in and promises to take action. They do a 39 page report, and then decide to set up a website some time in the future to analyse the situation...
Bloomberg has allocated $500,ooo to such activities. They will have a website and a bug czar some time in the future. Meanwhile, there are lots of websites including this one. And I did not spend $500,000. And further, this site has more information on it as I am telling you where Ground Zero is. All the king's men and all the king's horses have no clue, and the hapless journalists at the New York Daily News, who have been invited to do the story, which is in their own backyard - and those of the New York Post, who also have this site close to their offices - do not respond. Is it because they don't care? Or are stupid? Or afraid of me because I say mean things about stupid journalists and stupid celebrities?
So we wait to see what this bedbug czar is going to do, and I have a feeling I will have a lot more mean things to say...
Once again, anyone who wants to contact me and take some real action about this building full of mice and bedbugs, email me at bugout77@hotmail.com
It made me think of a funny story that goes like this. Japanese planes attack US Navy base in Pearl Harbor. The president calls the military in and promises to take action. They do a 39 page report, and then decide to set up a website some time in the future to analyse the situation...
Bloomberg has allocated $500,ooo to such activities. They will have a website and a bug czar some time in the future. Meanwhile, there are lots of websites including this one. And I did not spend $500,000. And further, this site has more information on it as I am telling you where Ground Zero is. All the king's men and all the king's horses have no clue, and the hapless journalists at the New York Daily News, who have been invited to do the story, which is in their own backyard - and those of the New York Post, who also have this site close to their offices - do not respond. Is it because they don't care? Or are stupid? Or afraid of me because I say mean things about stupid journalists and stupid celebrities?
So we wait to see what this bedbug czar is going to do, and I have a feeling I will have a lot more mean things to say...
Once again, anyone who wants to contact me and take some real action about this building full of mice and bedbugs, email me at bugout77@hotmail.com
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
An open letter to all Americans and New York City residents
Every day we are reading now about bedbugs. To some, an esoteric concept; to others, a reality they wish would be just a concept. Something they never had to deal with or think about. Or even read about.
And we are threatened with reading more and more about them, as the battle to get rid of them is being lost. As we are finding out, many sprays do not work; they are good at developing a resistance to chemicals.
In New York City, they have evolved to take over the niche of the once ubiquitous cockroach. These former insects were once public enemy #1 in our apartments, now they are starting to be welcomed as they are known to be enemies of the bedbugs. What an irony.
Soon, though, the cockroach may be gone from the Big Apple; the much smaller bedbug has usurped their role and is here to stay, it would seem. From Manhattan to the Hamptons, as noted so well in the New York Post on 9 July, they are biting us and sucking our life fluids out while we sleep; if at all we are able to do that, as in some places the infestations have reached such a point that people toss and turn all night as they feel these creatures crawling on them with impunity.
And so we complaining, and journalists write a note or two in the papers; more often, it seems, when the rich and famous are the ones who suffer, as was the case with the Post article. The hoi polloi do not get merit a full page as did the model and her family did.
Which is a shame - because this is a plague about to happen. Yesterday in the Metro as much was said by an anonymous writer, who noted their presence in the home, the theatre, the booktore, the library, the clothing shop - the list went and on.
This week and last I have spent my time alerting city authorities and the press about a building that houses up to two million bedbugs, which it has had, according to the manager and occupants, for about ten years. This year all parties agree is the worst ever, not surprising, as New York is in the grip of a heat wave and these buggers like it hot. I specifically metioned the danger of having so many in a hotel with over 100 rooms, and that each room had up to 300 in day. Collected in one jar of alcohol are 3,500, all gathered in the space of three months in one room. Other evidence, such as sheets stained with blood and tell-tale marks of their droppings, was offered to journalists. But they did not care. They took lots of time lately to tell us of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, her trip to France and her trip to jail, but for the citizens of the US and the residents of New York City, they did nothing. Calls and emails to the Post and the New York Daily Mail were a waste of time.
So I am writing to everyone to tell them that there is a danger. A place so badly kept that mice run free, their droppings collecting on the wire ceilings of rooms which are full of inescts that can multiply at the rate of 200 times a year. A place that has been run this way for years, so that the bugs have had time to develop a cell, from which a number of them hitch rides every day on the residents and then infect the city. And in which one resident has been diagnosed with scabies.
This is a disaster. And no one is taking note, for whatever reason. The most that gets done is that the landlord, after a court case goes against him, does some extra spraying - which has been observed to be completely ineffective. The measures indicated to him as necessary he has not taken. The halls are full of crevices where these creatures breed, and so great are their numbers that this place has been called the Ground Zero of bedbugs. It will destroy New York if this issue is left alone.
And it may well be left alone until all buildings in New York have these insects, which no one seems to be able to rid us of. Then it will spread from New York to other cities. At a multiplication rate of 200 a year, we cannot waste time with reluctant journalists and lazy city officials.
So I am writing an open letter to all Americans and residents of New York City, and also to the Mayor, whose ultimate responsibility this is. You cannot afford to have such a disgusting place in your country or your city.
Once, when a new resident moved in, I got to talking to him; he, like me, was in the service, so we talked shop about our days - he had tales of Khost, Afghanistan, and I told him about Gitmo, Cuba. He had been many places, some in the Third World, and he remarked that this place, right here in the US, was worse than anything he had ever seen. So he went out and bought some cleaning supplies and set about making his room habitable. Well, at 3am, the manager found him disinfecting his bed, and told him right then and there to leave.
That is how this place treats former servicemen. It is a disgrace beyond words. And it is also a disgrace that the city administration and the press in this town allow this kind of hotel to go on breeding these pests.
For anyone out there interested in helping - contact me at bugout77@hotmail.com
I am happy to meet face to face and give my real name to serious people and of course any journalists looking to do the right thing.
And we are threatened with reading more and more about them, as the battle to get rid of them is being lost. As we are finding out, many sprays do not work; they are good at developing a resistance to chemicals.
In New York City, they have evolved to take over the niche of the once ubiquitous cockroach. These former insects were once public enemy #1 in our apartments, now they are starting to be welcomed as they are known to be enemies of the bedbugs. What an irony.
Soon, though, the cockroach may be gone from the Big Apple; the much smaller bedbug has usurped their role and is here to stay, it would seem. From Manhattan to the Hamptons, as noted so well in the New York Post on 9 July, they are biting us and sucking our life fluids out while we sleep; if at all we are able to do that, as in some places the infestations have reached such a point that people toss and turn all night as they feel these creatures crawling on them with impunity.
And so we complaining, and journalists write a note or two in the papers; more often, it seems, when the rich and famous are the ones who suffer, as was the case with the Post article. The hoi polloi do not get merit a full page as did the model and her family did.
Which is a shame - because this is a plague about to happen. Yesterday in the Metro as much was said by an anonymous writer, who noted their presence in the home, the theatre, the booktore, the library, the clothing shop - the list went and on.
This week and last I have spent my time alerting city authorities and the press about a building that houses up to two million bedbugs, which it has had, according to the manager and occupants, for about ten years. This year all parties agree is the worst ever, not surprising, as New York is in the grip of a heat wave and these buggers like it hot. I specifically metioned the danger of having so many in a hotel with over 100 rooms, and that each room had up to 300 in day. Collected in one jar of alcohol are 3,500, all gathered in the space of three months in one room. Other evidence, such as sheets stained with blood and tell-tale marks of their droppings, was offered to journalists. But they did not care. They took lots of time lately to tell us of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, her trip to France and her trip to jail, but for the citizens of the US and the residents of New York City, they did nothing. Calls and emails to the Post and the New York Daily Mail were a waste of time.
So I am writing to everyone to tell them that there is a danger. A place so badly kept that mice run free, their droppings collecting on the wire ceilings of rooms which are full of inescts that can multiply at the rate of 200 times a year. A place that has been run this way for years, so that the bugs have had time to develop a cell, from which a number of them hitch rides every day on the residents and then infect the city. And in which one resident has been diagnosed with scabies.
This is a disaster. And no one is taking note, for whatever reason. The most that gets done is that the landlord, after a court case goes against him, does some extra spraying - which has been observed to be completely ineffective. The measures indicated to him as necessary he has not taken. The halls are full of crevices where these creatures breed, and so great are their numbers that this place has been called the Ground Zero of bedbugs. It will destroy New York if this issue is left alone.
And it may well be left alone until all buildings in New York have these insects, which no one seems to be able to rid us of. Then it will spread from New York to other cities. At a multiplication rate of 200 a year, we cannot waste time with reluctant journalists and lazy city officials.
So I am writing an open letter to all Americans and residents of New York City, and also to the Mayor, whose ultimate responsibility this is. You cannot afford to have such a disgusting place in your country or your city.
Once, when a new resident moved in, I got to talking to him; he, like me, was in the service, so we talked shop about our days - he had tales of Khost, Afghanistan, and I told him about Gitmo, Cuba. He had been many places, some in the Third World, and he remarked that this place, right here in the US, was worse than anything he had ever seen. So he went out and bought some cleaning supplies and set about making his room habitable. Well, at 3am, the manager found him disinfecting his bed, and told him right then and there to leave.
That is how this place treats former servicemen. It is a disgrace beyond words. And it is also a disgrace that the city administration and the press in this town allow this kind of hotel to go on breeding these pests.
For anyone out there interested in helping - contact me at bugout77@hotmail.com
I am happy to meet face to face and give my real name to serious people and of course any journalists looking to do the right thing.
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