The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[AGDee]

The whole bedbug thing has me so freaked out that I can't even read stories about it anymore. I have to NOT think about it because when I do, I am on the verge of being too freaked out to stay in a hotel or buy new stuff.. or go to the movies, or shop, or.. ack! Cannot. Deal. With. The. Idea.

[honeychile]

Friends of my brother stayed at a Wyndam, and brought home bedbugs. The last time I went to Bed, Bath & Beyond, I bought the killing spray, to go along with the UV sanitizer I usually take. Bedbugs are the last souveniers I want to bring home!

FWIW, my brother said that his friend told him that they usually travel in straight lines and can be found in mattress seams. Also, if there are little red dots on the sheets, that's a sign of infestation. (But wouldn't they wash the sheets?) The only way to really kill them can be to turn the heat to some impossibly hot setting, then sweep them out. blech.