This thrilling little video was uploaded to YouTube last summer, but with the city's (and the world's!) bedbug armies stillonthemarch, it's well worth watching as a cautionary tale. Finish what you're eating and behold in horror as the videographer gets up-close and personal with a spectacularly infested apartment, scored to a jaunty cover of The Band's "The Shape I'm In."
The whole thing kind of fizzles out at the end, but maybe that's just because we were expecting the scene to climax with the camera operator falling to his knees as a bloodthirsty swarm of bed bugs feast on his thighs. [Bedbugger via Village Voice]
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Ugh...I made it to 41 seconds. What the hell - did they abandon the apartment for months, or what?! How can the tenants let it get that out of control?
Now I'm all crawly-feeling. Thanks, Gothamist!
chopp3r
That's what you get for bringing home all that furniture you found on the street.
alx
um. so: if you've ever had bedbugs you know this is an extreme extreme case of utter neglect and possibly psychotic obliviousness depicted in the video. it will never be this obvious and you will drive yourself mad trying to find any indication (beyond your sores) of your infestation. its horrifying, but not particularly helpful, to make a video like this.
anyway. my 2 cents.
smokedgouda
That is horrific. A year ago I found the beginnings of bedbugs and went nuts. I poisoned my whole apartment and they didn't survive.
fishfryin
jesus christ. did this person ever even consider washing their bedding??
katers
i made it to 00:35 and had to shut it off. i'm paranoid because a building 3 bldgs down from me is infested. ugh, there is never ever an excuse for packing your miniscule apartment with THAT MUCH CRAP.
smitty
That was gross, but for some reason I was more shocked that they had a bunch of VHS tapes. Haha!
Gouda
Bed Bugs do not reproduce very fast, how the hell did it go that far?!
Now I feel things crawling on me.
DarkGemini
Ew.
Suddenly the errant roach that I see once in a blue doesn't seem so bad.
Think2wice
Disgusting. Roaches are bad enough, but bloodsuckers...ugh.
Sooo much clutter. I can't stand a pack rat's apartment - even if said pack rat is fastidious and stylish - just what is the point of living with so much idle junk. Just more hiding places for vermin I say.
Less is more people. Less to clean.
Spiny
How could they let it get that bad?
vinelod
I suppose it doesn't help to have the place jammed full of crap to begin with.
Wza
Holy shit that was nasty!
PBRK
Fizzles at the end? This was never lit to begin with.
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