Bed Bug Horror Stories To Keep You Awake

If anyone ever wondered if the life of a pest exterminator ever gets curious and exciting, I might be able to answer this question. I've recently collected a few actual stories from different sources, that show that at times the tough (and nasty) part of the job is actually dealing with the people behind the phone calls, not the bugs that caused it.

For starters, here is one to give you the creeps.

A pest controller walks into a bar..
No, he walks into an apartment,
from which he received a phone call and a request for a pest control service. What he finds is a man sitting on a couch, with the wall behind him covered in small dots. Dots, that seem to be slightly mobile, much to the exterminator's dismay. The kooky-seeming customer tells him that those are cockroaches, but our guy (that's the only character in the story that has his s*** together) sees his face covered in small red bites, puts two and two together and tell him those are actually bed bugs. Who also happen to be munching on him shamelessly.
 He tries to hide his confusion and starts suggesting various methods, which he can get rid of the bed bugs with, but none of them seem to satisfy the pizza face stranger. Finally, the truth is revealed:
 Killing insects goes against his religion.
Not making fun of anyone's religion here, I've heard that Jainism followers choose to walk barefoot to avoid hurting any creature that they might step on, and even don't go out at night, because then the risks are too great. That's how committed they are to the principle of non-violence. Ironically, that's where Hitler got some awesome ideas for his new symbol..

  Anyway, back to the story. The customer asked the guy if he couldn't just collect them and "release" them somewhere. At that point, our guy.. left.
That's it. That's the punchline. That's the moral of the story.
YOU DON'T RELEASE BED BUGS. They are highly contagious and spread very quickly and if you have them- you just kill them.The End

Oh yeah, there's another one.

The customer in this one is the exact opposite of the one in the previous story, as he was literally driven out of his mind in an attempt to get rid of those bed bugs.

      

He takes the exterminator to his bedroom, after setting up an appointment, and what does the professional see? This guy's bed is sitting on buckets full of water. Because he read on the Internet that that might help with this bed bug infestation.
What else did he learn from the web? That insects don't enjoy natural dust, as they don't have the ability to scab and it might be lethal to them. So, what did he do? He surrounded his bed with natural dust.. in a circular shape, around the buckets of water placed under the mattress.
Just to be sure, however, he puts double-sided tape on the edges of the bed.
It's all good in theory, except.. the bed bugs found a way.
They crawled up the wall and dropped right on top of him.
Moral of the story? Bed bugs suck. They really do. They may not be all that hazardous to your physical health, but they can sure mess with your head. They take away your sleep, and they don't even buy you dinner first. You are the dinner, in fact.
 Then you end up walking around exhausted and scratching for your life. Thankfully, pest exterminators are always not too far away.