Maybe if the exterminators would use their bug powder for killing bugs instead of shooting it intravenously, they wouldn't have this problem.

Where's Billy?

When the Great War comes and much of humanity is destroyed, bedbugs will remain to feast on the corpses of the survivors.

ga362: Where's Billy?

Winchester brothers wanted for questioning.

That article is a grammatical failure. Oh, it's a Fox subsidiary? Carry on, then.

Give me $10 on the over.

JC

nice headline and posts...

As a Mizzou fan I will laugh at this headline until OU comes into Columbia and destroys us in 5 days.

KS?
Kelp Salad?
Keep Smilin'?
Kick Steve?

Hello? This is Lawrence, Lawrence, Kansas. Is anybody there? Anybody? Anybody at alllllllll . . .

Please someone tell me that this "epidemic" is just MSM paranoia.

I wish I had some of that DDT stuff that almost got rid of them for good. The bedbugs have plenty of hippies to feast on in Lawrence.

Shrugging Atlas: As a Mizzou fan I will laugh at this headline until OU comes into Columbia and destroys us in 5 days.

Mizzou's improved D will keep this one closer than in year's past

*fingers crossed*
JC

Wollffeey: Please someone tell me that this "epidemic" is just MSM paranoia.

I wish. 3 people I know have them; they are spreading through their entire apartment complexes.... now I have to get my place checked out too.

At least they are leaving The Big O!

I think its time to build that wall or I don't know treat the cargo.

Thank Gaia we got rid of DDT.

mitchcumstein1: Hey asshole...yeah.

Basketball started last Friday anyway.

LOL. Typical KU fan. "Oh yea just wait until basketball season starts."

These lawrence KS homeboys are not impressed with bedbugs


/too obscure?

ne2d: Maybe if the exterminators would use their bug powder for killing bugs instead of shooting it intravenously, they wouldn't have this problem.

Exterminate all rational thought!


And since this is Lawrence, here's Kirk Rundstrom:

mud_shark

R.I.P. Kirk

quansem: Hello? This is Lawrence, Lawrence, Kansas. Is anybody there? Anybody? Anybody at alllllllll . . .

Ponzholio: mitchcumstein1: mini_martin: mitchcumstein1: Hey asshole...yeah.

Basketball started last Friday anyway.

LOL. Typical KU fan. "Oh yea just wait until basketball season starts."

Well, yeah.

I wash my hands of Turner Gill, I didn't want the fat man to go.

Yup. Remember when Charles Barkley was biatching racism because Auburn hired Gene Chizik and not Turner Gill? How'd that work out for them...

I highly doubt Nick Saban could do any better with the empty cupboard Fat Man left. I've had the misfortune of watching two Kansas games this year, and they are the one of the least talented teams I've seen so far in all of Div-1.

Bedbugs, nasty as they are, don't generally spread any diseases.

Personally, I'd rather keep our powder dry on DDT until we have some far more serious pest to deal with. Rather than breeding more-DDT-resistant bedbugs and other pests.

Of course, that takes a coordinated effort. Lots of the world still sprays DDT all over the place (or did until quite recently). Which is why populations of mosquitos, bedbugs, and a lot of other bugs are largely DDT-tolerant these days.

mitchcumstein1: Shrugging Atlas: As a Mizzou fan I will laugh at this headline until OU comes into Columbia and destroys us in 5 days.

As a Kansas grad it makes me sick, but I think Missouri is going to win that game.

I respect your optimism. As a Missouri grad who rioted milled about drunk on the field after the 5th Down Colorado game my freshman year, I'm just incapable of hope. Not to mention OU has won 19 of the past 20 meetings I think.

mitchcumstein1: Shrugging Atlas: As a Mizzou fan I will laugh at this headline until OU comes into Columbia and destroys us in 5 days.

As a Kansas grad it makes me sick, but I think Missouri is going to win that game.

The MU-OU game... not so sure.

The Border "Showdown"... that could be an incredibly painful experience for KU. Worse, it will be televised.

Killer Cars: I highly doubt Nick Saban could do any better with the empty cupboard Fat Man left. I've had the misfortune of watching two Kansas games this year, and they are the one of the least talented teams I've seen so far in all of Div-1.

Rebuilding? Fine. First year forbearance? Fine. Hell, admitting KU is a permanent cellar-dweller and we just want an affable Christian family guy? Okay, I guess.

There's nothing about Turner Gill that justified a $2mm/year salary, though. Nor all his high-salary assistants. And every week is reinforcing that. If he wanted to return half that salary (that'd cover a couple of non-revenue sports) until he deserved it, I'd have no complaint with the man.

Lawnchair: There's nothing about Turner Gill that justified a $2mm/year salary, though. Nor all his high-salary assistants. And every week is reinforcing that. If he wanted to return half that salary (that'd cover a couple of non-revenue sports) until he deserved it, I'd have no complaint with the man.

I'm not a shill for Turner Gill, believe me. And I had no idea he was being paid that much (yikes).

Just stating the obvious; Reesing, Briscoe, Aqib Talib, and some others who were legitimately good are long gone (cue Pitino's "Larry Bird is not walking through that door..."), and what's there currently looks like a Div-2 squad.

There is no excuse to get the barn doors blown off by K-State quite like that, though. You'd think a "rivalry game" alone would raise the level of play a little bit.

You guys are talking about sports at a time like this?! The bed bugs are a conspiracy, man!

Link (new window)

Sports aside, does anyone happen to know which apartment complex is affected? Or any other apartment complexes for that matter. I just moved out of an apartment into a house so I'm mostly just amused.

This is actually good timing because I'm going broke paying this rent but now I can be a little happier while I eat my ramen soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

SevenYearHawk: My beloved alma mater, now a national laughingstock and a FARK punchline?

wow ... I HAVE seen it all!

Did they teach you to type in all bold and not capitalize the beginning letter of a sentence?

/MU student

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/08/conservatives-blame-environmentalists-for-bed bugs.html

"But long before the United States banned most uses of it in 1972, DDT had lost its effectiveness against bedbugs-which, like many fast-breeding insects, are extremely adept at evolving resistance to pesticides."

DDT is ineffective. If it was, I would be for it but VERY controlled. People are stupid with this type stuff.

Actually going natural might be wise -- there is rumors that FOOD gradediatomaceous earth might help.

Anyone else find it stupid that the mom is allowing the girl to sleep in that room? Seriously?

going for shock value there, Marine1

hey, I saw frozen Shakespeare's at my local Hy-vee in KC the other day - whoa!

(I spent a few summers in CoMo for a journalism conference in college and have a couple cousins at Mizzou.)

Oh good. Midwest Property Management is now out to get its tenants with bedbugs.

Doug Compton will burn the place down, just like he did the historic home on Kentucky. Or was it Louisiana? One of those damn one ways were all the parties were.

//back in the 90s.
//was drunk don't remember the streets anymore.

wyrlss: Oh good. Midwest Property Management is now out to get its tenants with bedbugs.

Well, at least it is better than the anal fisting they usually require new tenants to submit to before giving them the key to the front door.