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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-products-have-bugs dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:04PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:04PM (#831019) Journal

    Famed is it? What know you of famed? For fifty plus years have I lived in NYC . My own counsel will I keep as to which stores are famed!

    I'm in Brooklyn. If you're so blinkered that you have not heard of the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, then you could only have spent those 50 years in Staten Island, in Tottenville or something. Or perhaps Far Rockaway or Pelham. Technically part of NYC, but culturally as connected and aware as Nome, Alaska.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @04:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @04:06PM (#831107)

    I'm in Brooklyn. If you're so blinkered that you have not heard of the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, then you could only have spent those 50 years in Staten Island, in Tottenville or something. Or perhaps Far Rockaway or Pelham. Technically part of NYC, but culturally as connected and aware as Nome, Alaska.

    Actually, I've lived in every borough *except* Stagnant Island. I did look at a place in St. George once, but having grown up on the Upper West Side, I wasn't about to move that far out into the sticks. Nine months in Richmond Hill was more than enough of that for me.

    And why are you being disingenuous? Or are you just functionally illiterate. I said:

    I also knew that an Apple store existed in NYC, but only because the local news has repeatedly shown morons waiting in line all night to buy the latest iGarbage.

    I don't give a rats ass about Apple or their stores. I'm sure there are lots of places of note (and I argue that an Apple store isn't a place of note) which you may have heard of, but don't know where they are.

    The ILA Union Hall? That's in Brooklyn, Do you know where? I do. I lived (in various places) just a few blocks away for more than a decade. How about "Top of The Sixes?" Have you even heard of it? Had you ever heard of Tekserve before I posted it here?

    How many times have you walked through Gramercy Park? Did you know that there was a gun shop a few blocks from there?

    How about Veneiros? Lovely Italian pastries there. Almost as good as Monteleone's. I bet you don't know *either* of those places.

    Here's a softball for you -- what about Sahadi's?
    Or an even easier one -- Where is Grant's tomb, and who is buried in it?

    Come on now, no looking stuff up online. Either you know it or you don't.

    You picked the wrong person to play this game with, Phoenix.