Guy Slams A Cup Of Bed Bugs On Office Counter When They Refused To Help With His Bed Bug Problem

NBC4i- The city manager in Augusta, Maine, says the municipal office building had to be sprayed for bedbugs after a man threw a cup of the pests onto an office counter and about 100 of them scattered off.

City Manager William Bridgeo tells the Kennebec Journal the man apparently complained Friday to the code enforcement office about bedbugs at his former apartment then left, but returned after he showed the cup of bugs to a manager at his new apartment and was told he couldn’t live there.

Bridgeo says the man let the bugs loose in the General Assistance Office where he asked for a form to request assistance and apparently was told he didn’t qualify.

Did you know that the state motto for Maine is “Vacationland”? I grew up there, and while some parts of the state are lovely, the insects are a fucking problem. Normally it’s mosquitos the size of eagles but today we’re talking about bed bugs, and frankly, what this man did is terrorism. I would rather have someone throw an envelope full of anthrax in my face than watch a cup of corralled bed bugs explode and scatter all over my office. Having said that, he warned them. I don’t know if this office was responsible for taking care of this man’s bed bug infestation, but by God if he doesn’t know how to illustrate a point. “My bed bugs are so bad that I’m collecting them in cups,” he said. “We don’t care,” they said. Next thing you know, he’s playing flip cup with a bed bug landmine on the counter and shutting down the office.

Given that nobody was hurt, it’s a pretty effective way to exact vengeance on a government office buried in bureaucracy. Paying parking tickets with pennies is played out; collecting 100 bed bugs, which I can only assume took this guy WEEKS, is in. Seriously, unless he owns a magic flute that charms these creepy crawlers out of the sheets, this act of revenge must have taken forever. The other possibility is that the bugs are so bad that he can just scoop them up in a cup like sand, which is so terrifying that I can’t. Or thirdly, he’s Ant Man. Either way, I don’t have enough facts to know whose side I’m on.

Maine: Vacationland, if you own a hazmat suit.