salon: A Long Island man made headlines this week after he…
A Long Island man made headlines this week after he doused his rental car in rubbing alcohol and lit a cigarette — causing a massive fire and nearly killing himself in the process. He was trying to get rid of bedbugs. Or, as science writer Brooke Borel describes them, you bastards. And he’s in good company. As Borel describes in her fascinating new book, “Infested,“ reports abound of people setting fire to their apartments, of people accidentally poisoning themselves with chemicals and pesticides meant to be used outdoors, and all other disasters — going back millennia — borne of the infected’s desire to “kill them, and by whatever means possible.”
Author Brooke Borel tells Salon about the great, terrible bedbug resurgence
Lol, best name for bedbugs ever.
