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Video: (Bed?) Bug Taking Ride On R Train
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 16, 2010
Modified Nov 16, 2010
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After a city bed bug expert announced he had seen bed bugs on benches at subway stations as well as one bed bug "catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger's caboose at Brooklyn's Hoyt-Schermerhorn station," we suggested wearing disposable jumpers during your commutes. Well, keep that in mind while you watch this video, which is described on YouTube this way: "On my way to work (11/16/2010) a lady across the aisle had a look of horror upon her face. I looked at her and she said 'the bed bug'. Sure enough there it was. It was brown from being filled up with some poor commuters blood. We had just passed the 36th st in Brooklyn when the lady discovered it."
Of course, this is only bed bug-diagnosis by lay New Yorker—if you need stomach-turning video of definite bed bugs for comparison, watch this. [Via Runnin' Scared]
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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