As the weather heats up it is more likely you and your family are to going to come face to face with bed bugs. Bed bug pest control is one of the most essential parts of protecting your family and preventing the infestation from spreading in your community or to your neighbors. If you suspect that your home is infested with bed bugs contact a bed bug pest control specialist right away. We’ve been in the business of protecting and preventing bed bug infestations for years. Here are a few interesting and crazy stories you may have missed in the past years about bed bugs. Not sure if you have bed bugs? Read our article Do You Have Bed Bugs? to find out for sure.
In this short recount a mother narrates her initial encounter with bed bugs. She did not know what she was dealing with and thought her first bed bug was a baby roach! Further investigation in her 12-year-old daughter’s room she saw that her entire box spring mattress and wooden bed were riddled with bed bugs and the story only gets crazier.
This lady shares her terrifying bed bug-filled night when she awoke at 2:30am with a strong swollen and itching sensation. She ran to the bathroom only to discover rashes all over her body. At first, she assumed it was food poisoning. When the husband turned on the light, they were disgusted to see the bed was overrun with BED BUGS!
Here a couple bought their first home and spent all day moving which left them exhausted. By the bedtime, they put the mattress directly on the floor and slept there. The lady awoke at midnight to find their cat vigorously hunting bedbugs on the mattress. Thus the beginning of their bedbug horror story!
A man from Detroit was so inundated by the bedbugs in his apartment, he showered himself with alcohol and then tried lighting a bedbug on fire. The ensuing flames causes some serious burns on him that the whole episode destroyed four units in the apartments and multiple others were damaged by water. It’s a must read!
A Long Island man burned his rental car trying to destroy the bedbugs inside the car. Scott Kemery was outside a supermarket when he was grievously burnt. He used alcohol, which he sprinkled all over the bed bugs, then lit a cigarette while he was in the car setting off the accidental blaze. He managed to get out of the vehicle on his own.
Zane Selkirk, was on a British Airways flight from Los Angeles to Bangalore when she spotted the bugs on her airplane-given blanket and fingers. Yuck!
A commuter discovered a bed bug on a city transit bus. He took a photo of the bug on a Halifax Transit bus – then ran home, reduced to his essentials right there in the snow and shoved his clothes in bags, since he was afraid the bedbugs may contaminate him and his home.
YouTuber Johnny Fedora wanted to test and show people how the skin reacts to bedbug bites. He took this experiment very personally; took hundreds of bedbugs from a jar and let them feast on his arm! He did get a temporary tattoo but so did plenty of itching!
A cleaner operating on a public housing building set fire a mattress in the hallway and got herself charged with arson. She did it to get rid of the bed bugs. She is charged with the felony for endangering her surroundings. Do you think that’s fair?
Carl Leibowitz completely unsuspected the bed bugs beneath him while staying at a hotel in Portland, and retired for the night. When he awoke at 6:30 the next morning, the CBS producer found his pillow covered in blood, and he panicked looking at the bites on his body. He then made a visit to a local hospital. The early diagnosis was unclear and even a possible allergy was said to be the cause. Then again he did have more than 43 bites all over his body from bed bugs!
A northeastern Ohio high school was closed after officials say they found four bed bugs in the building.
Saying she was traumatized after suffering 25 bedbug bites in the fall at a hotel, a Spring Valley woman has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the company. Rollins woke to her cell phone ringing, turned on a light and saw “something run across her pillow.” That’s when she noticed welts on her left wrist, arm, and hand. When she pulled back the seam of the pillowcase, “hundreds of bed bugs scurried out.”
