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NJ Court Closed After Man Comes In "Covered" In Bedbugs
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 27, 2013
Modified Feb 27, 2013
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That mythical bedbug-busting pill can not come soon enough. Just ask the folks at the Hudson County Administration building in New Jersey whose work space now has to be sprayed down after a man showed up for court "covered in the blood-feeding insects." Ahhhh!
According to The Jersey Journal "parts of the top floor of the building, which houses a section of the Hudson County Superior Court, had to be sprayed" yesterday afternoon after a man showed up "covered in bedbugs." Or did he?
While "an attorney familiar with the incident" says the man was covered and employee at the Court says that actually only one bedbug was found on the man, who was there for an appearance at drug court. One bedbug or a thousand, this is still one of our nightmares come to life. We can live with bedbugs in newsrooms and maybe even posh hotels, but for the love of plasma keep those things out of our halls of justice!
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