This frustrated man couldn't help but show his desperation to the Maine city center for his new house lease getting rejected by dumping bed bugs from his home into the city center. After dumping the bugs, he yelled, “They’re your problem now!”
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This Maine man was informed by the Augusta City Center that he did not qualify for the city assistance with his bedbug problem. So he had a better idea to deal with the bugs and the city center too.
He slammed a container filled with the tiny and incredibly annoying insects onto the counter of the Augusta City Center, yelling, “They’re your problem now!”
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City Manager William Bridgeo guessed that about 100 of them were flung around the office — some of them landing on the poor employee behind the counter.
In his four decades as a municipal employee, Bridgeo told the Kennebec Journal, he had never experienced “anything as yucky as this.”
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Police and pest control contractors were immediately contacted and the building was closed for the rest of the day.
The man who was denied a lease on a new home and brought the bugs to the city center has been detained and will likely face criminal charges.
His bug attack is particularly worrisome because new studies have discovered that bedbugs are becoming resistant to the most common insecticides used to kill them.
This new immunity has triggered recent spikes in bedbug infestations around the country.
Well, bad news for the city center in Maine as they might have to go through real trouble in getting rid of these bugs.