Fox News Employee sues over bed bugs - claims PTSD

[RamboLiberal]

A 12-year veteran of Fox News Channel has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome and is now filing suit over the bed bug infestation in the FNC newsroom. According to her lawyers, Jane Clark, "can no longer go to work after suffering emotional distress due to a continuous and ongoing bedbug problem at work."

TVNewser was first to report the problem last fall, which continued through the winter. The NYTimes reported the bed bugs were "totally eradicated" in March.

But Clark's lawyer, Alan Schnurman, says his client "was attacked" by the swarming insects just last month, on April 30. Apparently, after Clark's department was moved to a different floor, the bedbugs moved with her. A News Corp. insider tell us there's no proof of that, however. Clark claims she was was also bitten last October and again in November.

Clark has filed suit against the building's manager Beacon Capital and the maintenance company, Triangle Services. She has also filed a Workers Compensation claim against News Corp.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

[magellan]

1. The government says there's no such thing as PTSD

Next.

[johnfunk]

2. In other news: FOX News Channel announces they are changing the name of "Hannity and Colmes"...

... to "The Itchy and Scratchy Show".

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[beac]

14. Good one!

[MetaTrope]

3. They must be infesting her anthrax stash

[KSinTX]

4. Bedbugs named O'Reilly, Hannity & Colmes?

That would be about right - throw in Trotta and you've got a swarm.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Pestilence?

Could this have been FORETOLD??

Jeremiah 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Ummm...Jane, I don't know how to break this to you...

but those aren't bedbugs. They're Bombay Bloomer Beetles, and O'Loofah is the likely source.

[VP505]

7. I always knew FAUX Noise

was infested with vermin, LOL!!!

[Randypiper]

8. If you lie down with dogs

you wake up with fleas

[lonestarnot]

9. OMG ROFLMAO!

:rofl:

[Joanie Baloney]

10. Remember what mama told you, Jane

"....if they bite....bite them back!"

:)

[katty]

11. I have PTSD from the Perpetual Lack of Accuracy in yr reporting!

[lonestarnot]

12. kick

[ConsAreLiars]

13. Man, they sure do inhabit some bizarroworld alternate reality!

bug bites causing PTSD?

Attacked by "swarming" bedbugs?

Stalked and tracked by these alien creatures?

Living and working among stupid insane paranoid fearmongers is obviously not good for one's mental health or ability to judge when to spend money on a lawyer.

[beac]

15. Good night, sleep tight, don't let the facts bite!

[Indenturedebtor]

16. bwahaha. There's a reason they're called BED bugs

They don't attack in the light during the day lol. What a stupid lawsuit... that said I hope she wins :applause: