Hot Fudge Gross

[Navy Blue Scrubs]

The union representing Detroit's bus drivers has asked the City Council to put pressure on the transit agency to help stop the spread of bedbugs on buses.

About 50 Detroit Department of Transportation drivers have reported seeing the bugs on buses, and some have been bitten within the past year, said Henry Gaffney, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26.

After receiving a letter from Gaffney in May, DDOT chief executive Ron Freeland said Thursday he asked a maintenance crew to investigate and sent a letter to the union later in the month saying any infested bus would be cleaned.

Freeland said Wednesday the amount of bedbugs the crew has found so far in the cleaning process isn't unusual for a service with an average of 100,000 riders each day.



From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2012 ... z1zAsvrcaJ

Been seeing a surge in the critters in the last coup'la weeks.

[Heywood McCrakin]

A couple of years ago, Great Grandma McCrakin had bites all over her from these critters.

GGM's nighttime caregiver apparently had them at home, and brought them in....turns out it infested the whole assisted living facility....cost GGM 12,000 bucks to replace her couches, beds, carpet, etc....what a friggin nightmare.

[middle aged female]

A couple of years ago, Great Grandma McCrakin had bites all over her from these critters.

GGM's nighttime caregiver apparently had them at home, and brought them in....turns out it infested the whole assisted living facility....cost GGM 12,000 bucks to replace her couches, beds, carpet, etc....what a friggin nightmare.

Damned things get everywhere; I understand that they run rampant in movie theaters and dressing rooms in NYC as well as other places.

[meme]

Yep. Supposedly found in stores on Fifth Ave. in NYC. One guy I know had them in a rental property of his. Cost thousands to exterminate the place. Twice.
Tenants had a rotation of room mates who apparently brought them in their furniture.

I have read that a temperature of 140F or more kills them. Kinda tough to do with a house. Furniture could be salvaged though.

[MICHIGAN]

D-Day and CaseyC- Ohio representin'! three of the top fifteen.

The 2012 most bedbug-infested cities include:

1. Philadelphia
2. Cincinnati
3. New York City
4. Chicago
5. Detroit
6. Washington, D.C.
7. Columbus, Ohi0
8. San Francisco
9. Denver
10. New Haven, Conn.
11. Dallas
12. Houston
13. Indianapolis
14. Miami
15. Cleveland

Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1e2r6)

[guest]

It's a sad story and I'm prob'ly going to Hell for saying this, okay it's not like this is the first thing that's buying my way into the fiery lake (can I borrow that rowboat, Frank?) , but there's a story about a baby that died, no idea what happened with that, but she was apparently found dead in a closet and somehow the TV people got inside and filmed the closet and it's a fucking mess and there's cockroaches crawling around. Did I mention the cockroaches? Fuck. They couldn'ta stopped the tape and let the fuckers crawl out of view? I guess there's some satisfaction in knowing that the camera guy now has bedbugs.

Cross to Clean Your Fucking House and If You Wonder Why You're Poor PDJ.

[middle aged female]

It's a sad story and I'm prob'ly going to Hell for saying this, okay it's not like this is the first thing that's buying my way into the fiery lake (can I borrow that rowboat, Frank?) , but there's a story about a baby that died, no idea what happened with that, but she was apparently found dead in a closet and somehow the TV people got inside and filmed the closet and it's a fucking mess and there's cockroaches crawling around. Did I mention the cockroaches? Fuck. They couldn'ta stopped the tape and let the fuckers crawl out of view? I guess there's some satisfaction in knowing that the camera guy now has bedbugs.

Cross to Clean Your Fucking House and If You Wonder Why You're Poor PDJ.

I don't blame the camera guys; they were just filming what was there. If that's what the conditions in the house were, why try to make it look better for T.V.? The baby didn't live there, but my God, why would you leave her there to be babysat even for a little while?

[guest]

I don't blame the camera guys; they were just filming what was there. If that's what the conditions in the house were, why try to make it look better for T.V.? The baby didn't live there, but my God, why would you leave her there to be babysat even for a little while?

Yeah, well there's no making that house look good with anything short of a flamethrower but they coulda spared me the visual of the roaches. I don't like seeing them for real and I don't like them on the TV.

[middle aged female]

I don't blame the camera guys; they were just filming what was there. If that's what the conditions in the house were, why try to make it look better for T.V.? The baby didn't live there, but my God, why would you leave her there to be babysat even for a little while?

Yeah, well there's no making that house look good with anything short of a flamethrower but they coulda spared me the visual of the roaches. I don't like seeing them for real and I don't like them on the TV.

I don't like roaches either, but I don't think these people deserve the courtesy of making that sty look any better than it really does. 20 people in that one hell hole and they left a toddler there? Give me a fucking break.

[meme]

Have you seen the thread on this at the other place?

[middle aged female]

Have you seen the thread on this at the other place?

Just looked at it. Pretty interesting stuff for a change

[guest]

Have you seen the thread on this at the other place?

The other place is filtered out on the mine's network; it's classified as entertainment or circle-jerkery or whatever, not hard news like HFD.

[frank - up in grand blanc]

It's a sad story and I'm prob'ly going to Hell for saying this, okay it's not like this is the first thing that's buying my way into the fiery lake (can I borrow that rowboat, Frank?) , but there's a story about a baby that died, no idea what happened with that, but she was apparently found dead in a closet and somehow the TV people got inside and filmed the closet and it's a fucking mess and there's cockroaches crawling around. Did I mention the cockroaches? Fuck. They couldn'ta stopped the tape and let the fuckers crawl out of view? I guess there's some satisfaction in knowing that the camera guy now has bedbugs.

Cross to Clean Your Fucking House and If You Wonder Why You're Poor PDJ.

Growing up there were two things in our home which seemed normal to us but were not common in the homes of our friends. There were my father's weapons, which you'd expect in a cop's house, and then there were the bottles of disinfectant, louse-killer, and the like.

My mother kept a home that was beyond immaculate, so try to imagine the pandemonium the time that my dad was changing out of his uniform and a cockroach fell out of his pants. That was early on in his career, and SOP thereafter was to stomp his feet good and hard after leaving places serviced by housekeeping techniques of dubious quality. The lice-killing shampoos were in quart-sized glass bottles and were stored against the likelihood of an infested prisoner getting too close during an arrest and transport.

[The Suburban Avenger]

Hollis Fussell of Detroit made a gruesome discovery this morning along the Detroit River — a saw and the body parts of a man and woman whose torsos were found floating nearby.

Fussell had made his way to his regular fishing spot off Alter Park when the heating and air conditioning business owner and property investor spotted the body parts.

At 10 a.m., a white leg with polished toenails, two other white legs, a yellow-handled cordless circular saw, a brown suitcase and a sheet still lay on the sandy bottom of the Detroit River, in about 3 feet of crystal clear water where the river meets Lake St. Clair.

"That was a gruesome sight," said Fussell, a few hundred feet down the shore this morning as police worked the scene. "Ain't that ugly. It wasn't a nice sight for me, trying to sit down and enjoy my fishing. We know the city is rough, but man 'o man."

Police believe the parts belong to two torsos discovered earlier in the river and a canal near where Alter Road ends at the water.

“This isn’t just ‘I’ll kill you,’” said Detroit Police Eastern District Commander Steve Dolunt, standing along the shore in the overgrown, abandoned park. “This is vicious.”

The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office is on the scene, along with Detroit Police investigators and officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer was on routine patrol in a vehicle onshore at about 6:30 a.m. when the first body was spotted in Fox Creek, just off the Detroit River, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Justin Westmiller said. The body was floating near an abandoned park on the city’s east side.

The second body was spotted shortly after, about 7:15 a.m., nearby in the Detroit River, Westmiller said.

“The (Coast Guard) boat crew came across the second one as they were responding to the first,” Westmiller said. “Both bodies were found without hands, feet or heads. They were clearly cut off.”

Westmiller did not know how long the bodies appeared to have been in the water. The Detroit Police Homicide Unit is now handling the investigation, he said.

“We did the recovery, but we immediately turned it over,” Westmiller said.

Fussell spotted the body parts in the clear water and police were called a short time later.

The Detroit Police dive team went into the river at around noon to recover the body parts. Sgt. Shawn Wesley of the department's Office of Homeland Security said they'll mark the parts underwater using a global positioning system, then recover them.

Detroit Police Department spokesman Sgt. Eren Stephens said just before noon that the department had not received any information about the identities of the pair or if anyone had been reported missing that might be linked to the case.

"There are people reported missing every day," she said.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120717/NEWS01/120717017/Detroit-homicide-bodies-police-hands-feet-heads?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[guest]

Torso? Damn near, no, wait, wrong punchline.