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Don't let the bedbugs bite!

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AJHawkfan

AJHawkfan

Wanna make $14 the hard way?
Seriously.....they'll tear your shit up!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=2&u=/060307/480/nyr10403072045

These photos supplied by the law offices of Zalman & Schnurman, showing bedbug bits on the body of Leslie Fox, were taken at the Ellenville Regional Hosptial in Ellenville, N.Y., Thursday, July 14, 2005. Fox, a Chicago booking agent and her husband are suing a Catskills resort for $20 million, saying her body and mind were scarred after she suffered some 500 bedbug bites last summer. (AP Photo/Law offices of Zalman & Schnurman, Stephen Cohen)
 

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BrutusMaximus said:
Bed bugs are real? Always thought my parents were shitting me.
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I thought they called bedbugs "vantzes" in the Catskills. :)

Regardless, as I used to do some insurance defense work, I am not the least bit surprised that this woman appears to be both overweight and, in all probability, ugly. Dollars to doughnuts, she also has an extensive file of preexisting health and mental health problems and overutilization of health care services (e.g., 4 years of chiropractic "treatment" for a minor rear-end auto accident) and has probably made workers' compensation claims. There are millions (or at least hundreds of thousands) of these emotionally fragile, relentlessly pessimistiic, perpetual victims who always seem to have bad things happen to them that are never their fault (e.g., getting rear-ended in auto collisions that are never their fault (legally at least) 5 times in 6 years, developing environmental illnesses at work or other "work-related" disabilities, getting sexually harassed to the point of being emotionally crippled at every job they've ever held . . . I'm not even saying they're intentional malingerers or immoral frivolous lawsuit-filers either (although a few are): Just people whose own low self-esteem and negativity seems to make them unusually "unlucky".

Why do I say these mean things about a woman who apparently really is a victim here? Because she's asking for $20M for this crap and claiming psychological devastation, yada, yada, yada . . . The incident is aesthetically nasty, and, assuming the hotel is at fault, they should have to pay for her (one would assume fairly minor) medical bills, and related costs and maybe $5-10K for the inconvenience, suffering, misery . . . If I was the hotel's insurer, I'd offer medical and related costs + $5K, be willing to kick in another $5K in negotiations and otherwise take it to trial.
 
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I travel almost all the time and I think if you knew what was on and in most hotel beds you would never go on vacation. Do not even think about chairs and phones. This may generate some discussion in the dream thread over the next few days.:biggrin:
 
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NorthShoreBuck said:
I travel almost all the time and I think if you knew what was on and in most hotel beds you would never go on vacation. Do not even think about chairs and phones. This may generate some discussion in the dream thread over the next few days.:biggrin:
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Just for fun, sometime when you wanna see something really nasty, and ruin your appetite at the same time, check into hotel room and be sure to bring along a blacklight. Then, when it's good and dark, check out the comforter..... sheets..... chairs..... carpet...... phone..... remote....... ceiling......
 
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NorthShoreBuck said:
I travel almost all the time and I think if you knew what was on and in most hotel beds you would never go on vacation. Do not even think about chairs and phones. This may generate some discussion in the dream thread over the next few days.:biggrin:
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So, how is it that you know what was on and in most hotel beds, chairs and phones? :susp:

FWIW, my coworker used to clean motel rooms. He said he is still amazed at the amount of blood that motel patrons left behind. :sick1:
 
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