Augusta city offices close after man unleashes 100 live bedbugs

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http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/02/augusta-city-offices-close-after-spurned-man-unleashes-100-live-bedbugs/

AUGUSTA — An apparently disgruntled man slammed a cup full of live bedbugs on the counter inside City Center on Friday afternoon, spilling the bugs out of the cup and into the office and prompting the building’s abrupt closure for the rest of the day.

One or more of the bugs landed on a city employee in the General Assistance office, and City Manager William Bridgeo said action was taken to try to contain and recapture all 100 or so bugs. City Center, which houses the city’s municipal offices, closed shortly after the incident and by later Friday a pest control contractor was in the building spraying to try to kill off any remaining bedbugs.

Bridgeo said the entire facility was closed as a precaution, especially since the man may have been to other parts of the building in addition to the General Assistance office where the incident took place.

Bridgeo said Augusta police were called immediately and located the man. Bridgeo expects that the man, whose identity was not immediately available Friday afternoon, would be charged with a crime.

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[Towlie]

1. It took me a while to realize this was in Maine, not Georgia.

[dawg]

2. I know.

[Cattledog]

3. Should of went to a Trump hotel.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Maybe he did. Those bedbugs had to come from somewhere.

Can you go to a pet store and ask for a hundred bedbugs? Do they carry them, to feed the little lizards?

[Calculating]

5. He probably had his own infestation

I had a problem with bedbugs once and it would have been easy to collect a few dozen of them from the bed. It was definitely tempting to 'give them' to certain people I hated.