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Bedbugs Can Suck It: Advisory Board Will Crush Parasites
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 19, 2009
Modified Mar 19, 2009
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Party's over, bedbugs. Today Mayor Bloomberg (heard of him? We humans call him the MAD DOG) has just created a Bedbug Advisory Board to take the fight to you. A veritable Justice League is forming, comprised of the best and brightest in pest management, entomology, and... Consumer Affairs. And come nine months from now, these geniuses are going to report their findings to the mayor, and who knows what they'll recommend? Everything's on the table—even DDT. Well, probably not, but if you're a bedbug who's smart enough to be reading this on the internet, there's nothing we can do to stop you at this point anyway. (Not really a joke, NYC bedbugs have been mutating into unstoppable super insects.) The creation of the Advisory Board, which mirrors steps taken by other bedbug-infested cities, came out of a City Council hearing on the blood sucking fiends last month. And with an increasing number of New Yorkers plagued by the resilient pests, we're not waiting around for the government to take action: we're releasing the hounds.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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