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Burning Possibly Bedbuggy Mattress May Be Arson

083010bedbug.jpg Bed bugs are unnerving and disgusting to even contemplate. Which is probably why public housing building cleaner Miriam Ortiz decided to set fire to a mattress she suspected might be infested with bedbugs. But it's also a public safety hazard. The Daily News reports the 36-year-old was hit with "felony arson and reckless endangerment charges... for the Sept. 8 blaze in the Manhattanville houses." A source said she had a "fear of bedbugs" and was lazy—instead of disposing of the mattress properly (we imagine it'd involving wrapping it with plastic and bringing to the trash), she just used a lighter to destroy the mattress in a "partially-enclosed hallway" on the 10th floor of one of the buildings.

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  • Dirk

    Is this for real? She was burning the mattress in a 10th floor hallway? The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

  • CR

    How can we dance when our bedbugs are burning?

  • Wza

    lmaoo!

  • I'm not going to bother making a comment because you just won the thread.

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