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The famed Apple store on 5th Avenue isn't just crawling with thousands of tourists– it's also been crawling with bed bugs for nearly a month, The Post has learned.
This past Friday, after weeks of bed bug sightings, a critter was spotted in the manager's office, sending desperate employees into a frenzy, terrified they'd bring the pest home with them.
"It was just mayhem," an employee told The Post.
"There was a mass exodus... employees were freaking out they felt really unsafe and management kept giving them the runaround."
Staff were ordered to double bag their belongings in plastic while a "bed bug sniffing beagle" came to the store where it was "activated" by two lockers in a staff area.
"I shouldn't have to go to work feeling unsafe and unprotected," one worker told The Post.
"We felt very anxious, used and unimportant, like we were just another number."
One worker said the issue has been going on for "nearly a month" and "Friday was the first day they acknowledged they found something."
The employee said the issue started about three to four weeks ago during the overnight hours at the 24-hour store, which frequently has homeless visitors, when a table on the second floor was "cordoned off" because a bed bug was found, believed to have come from one of the homeless visitors.
The table was left cordoned off while employees and customers were allowed in the store and around the table with no warning of the bed bug threat, an employee said.
"No one could go to that table but it was still on the floor, if a customer leaned on it and they didn't know" a bug could've crawled on them, the worker said.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/15/the-5th-ave-apple-store-has-been-crawling-with-bed-bugs/
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday April 16 2019, @10:10PM (4 children)
Agreed - for something like a mattress I've seen suggestions of putting it in a large black bag in the sun for a few hot days - you've got to get the coldest spot within the mattress to at least 120F to kill the bugs, and above 125F to kill the eggs. (and females are born pregnant, so there's going to be eggs)
A typical clothes drier on Hot does get hot enough to kill bugs and eggs - but you've got to run bone-dry clothes through it for a while to make sure the insides of seams, etc. where they like to hide actually reach the same temperature as the air. Not recommended for dedicates.
For less robust items, freezing is another option - but you have to cool them below 0F for at least 4 days to do the job.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday April 16 2019, @10:13PM (3 children)
I would have presumed this method would work better with dedicated people
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:44AM (2 children)
I don't see how putting some dedicated people in a large black bag in the sun for a few hot days can get rid of bed bugs, but if you say so... Are you dedicated? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:28AM (1 child)
Perhaps "committed" is a better word...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:51AM
"The difference between "involvement" and "commitment" can be explained by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, but the pig was committed."
--Unknown