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In 40 years of government work, a city manager in Maine says he’s “never had anything as yucky as this.” The Kennebec Journal reports a “disgruntled” man entered Augusta city hall Friday and promptly shut it down by releasing dozens of bedbugs. “He whipped out a cup [full of live bedbugs] and slammed it on the counter, and bam, off they flew, maybe 100 of them,” city manager William Bridgeo says. At least one of the bugs landed on a city employee, and the assistant city manager was reduced to using Windex in an attempt to stun the bugs while pest control was on its way.
Police were immediately called and found the unnamed man, WGME reports. Bridgeo filed a complaint against the man, but police have yet to decide if he’ll be charged with anything. The man, who released the bedbugs in the city’s General Assistance office, was apparently upset after requesting a form to get assistance and being told he didn’t qualify. The bedbugs were reportedly from his former apartment.
So… My kid’s classmates are ‘disgruntled’ students whom are little terrorists, considering how many times I’ve had to shake her down after school.
A Man who Truly, ” Just Goes fo it” !
How are they going to distinguish between the bed bugs and the bureaucrats?
The bureaucrats are the larger two legged bugs.
The bed bugs are a 3rd world gift
from our political/bureaucrat
class. So in the spirit of comity
he returned them to whence they
came. How very droll.
But were they gay bed bugs? Were they immigrant bed bugs? Or just illegals?
Tricky problem introducing competition into the office…the bureaucrats suck blood too.
OK, I’ve got a stupid blood sucking joke I saw on a popsicle stick (it’s popsicle time when it’s hot outside)the other day. Why do vampires like baseball? Because they like playing with bats.
We must assume that the bugs made the bureaucrat’s nap times uncomfortable?
I can hardly think of worse punishments for bureaucrats …
izlamo delenda est …
Think how the bedbugs must have felt, being suddenly and brutally exposed to bureaucrats.
The horror…!
That sucks
Unnamed man? May not be charged? I’m not saying it’s a Somali, but…
You guys will think I am nuts, but … I am so freaked out at the very thought of bedbugs that if I buy something on ebay that could conceivably have a single hidden bedbug, I don’t even open the shipping package before I place it into “cold storage” for three days. FREEZER, that is. First I pop it into a big plastic bag, then into the big freezer in the cellar. Bedbugs can’t survive that. 🙂
They should have taken this guy out back and beat the crap out of him. Years ago I was on the receiving end of an infestation of bedbugs and you haven’t lived until you wake up at 4:00 AM because you felt some itching, through the covers back while turning on the lights to see dozens of bedbugs on your legs feeding and when the light hit scattering at an amazing speed. It cost me about $5,000 in new clothes, furniture, bed and pest control to ensure they were gone. I don’t know if they came from another apartment (they can migrate through a building electical system) or if I picked one up by simply sitting in a chair that had been inhabited by someone with the problem.
I can appreciate that the fact that he didn’t go in there with a shotgun but maybe a picket line would have been more appropriate then what this asshole did.
GrandeMe: Could this be a solution to Kathy Griffin?
Cockroaches would be appropriate.
Or stinkbugs.
Who sat there before you?
Think about this as you’re about to sit in a taxi, or a bus, or an airliner, or a doctor’s office.
The DMV? County offices? *shudder* Good luck.
Why the city workers didn’t comb out a few platoons of their pubic lice to form a hasty defense is curious.
“They should have taken this guy out back and beat the crap out of him.”
Actually, they formed a committee to search for qualified people to form a “committee of interest” such that they may hire someone to advise them on the formation of a working group which could make suggestions to the advisory board of the Assistant Director who may forward the suggestions with or without comments to the Deputy Director who may either approve and forward the suggestions with comments or send the findings back to the committee of the Whole to undertake an exploratory commission which would examine the possibilities of addressing the committee on the more appropriate ramifications of whether or not “bedbug” is racist or homophobic or a slur of some nature, in which the offending bodies should be assigned to a seminar, or symposium, in “Caring and Healing” which would circumvent anyone who may be offended by something of this nature from pressing a lawsuit with the ACLU or the SPLC, in which case the city should absorb all costs.
izlamo delenda est …