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Video: Human Bed Bug Costume Fills With Blood Before Your Very Eyes
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John Del Signore
Published May 24, 2011
Modified May 24, 2011
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Eat your heart out, Isabella Rossellini! This human-size bed bug costume is so freaking realistic that it actually fills with (fake) blood right in front of you! We know what we're gonna be for Halloween!
We're told the costume designer’s resume includes a long list of commercials and movies, including The Hulk, and you can experience it for yourself this Memorial Day weekend, when the Bed Bug Man travels to NYC on a promotional tour for the Hot Shot pest control product line.
Break out your bed bug fart detectors and track down him on Sunday from 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Bryant Park and 3-7 p.m. at Times Square; on Monday from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Rockefeller Center and 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Central Park; and on Tuesday from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Grand Central Terminal and 2:30-5:30 p.m. at South Street Seaport. Shake his sucker and get your photo taken with him (watch out for traumatic insemination!)
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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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