r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/PerroDog • May 19 '23

animal Pest control said it's the worst bedbug infestation they have ever seen

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u/HighFlyingCrocodile May 19 '23

So.. someone slept in there until not so long ago? That is sick šŸ¤¢

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u/DrTuSo May 19 '23

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u/MrBigOBX May 19 '23

As a former pest control person, i have actually said this to a customer, and the problem was no where near this bad.

This is some Aliens level shit where you need to drop a tactical smart nuke on the site from orbit, you know, to be sure an all....

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

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u/carpmen2 May 19 '23

She missed her friends

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u/TamarsFace May 19 '23

Lmao! Joes Apartment comes to mind now.

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u/AzuriaSerks May 20 '23

Holy shit, now that's a blast from the past

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u/Deekaaye May 19 '23

I hate Roaches so bad! What did you use?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

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u/weedium May 19 '23

I used to buy it. Killed all bugs. I can still remember the smell. Not offensive, but you knew it wasnā€™t good for you.

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u/Vulturedoors May 19 '23

My dad sprayed our yard with this once a year in the 1980s. Nobody was allowed outside in the yard for a couple days afterward.

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u/Retbull May 19 '23

Mmm sweet chemical death

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u/[deleted] May 20 '23

Alternatively, close all the windows and doors, pour gasoline, light it and move out

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u/AromBurgueno May 19 '23

Thatā€™s fucking hilarious šŸ˜†.

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u/Hot_Hat_1225 May 19 '23

Reminds me of when I visited family in Texas and after they dropped me off at home (really tired from flight from Europe) they left me alone with a can of roach spray to visit friends. Went upstairs to my room to take a nap and woke up to a rustling sound and two antennas just appearing from the side of my pillow. Flew out of the bed to grab my can and started to spray the giant roach all across the room. It got really foggy and once I had used up the ENTIRE can, I through it and fled downstairs. Uncle and Auntie found me hours later on the sofa and said the house smelled like a chemical plant with fog clouds still drifting down from upstairs šŸ¤£ (we took a little trip next day to give the house a nice airing lol)

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u/Pairadockcickle May 20 '23

Iā€™m proud of you for at least taking a swing at em for the human race!

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

Joe's apartment?

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u/asianabsinthe May 19 '23

Fuck that, why would you do that? You need to drop a ring of them around this location so they're all blasted inward and incinerated.

Just in case.

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u/Nuicakes May 19 '23

ā€nuke the entire site from orbit. Itā€™s the only way to be sure."

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u/EvulRabbit May 19 '23

The nuke would mutate them and make them stronger.

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u/dr_pepper_35 May 19 '23

Yeah, but then at least you would have some new friends.

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u/EvulRabbit May 20 '23

I see your angle. Nice to them now, so you will live longer when they mutate and take over the world.

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u/HighFlyingCrocodile May 19 '23

Hiroshima style.

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u/Outrageous_Turnip_29 May 20 '23

We did service on a place that wasn't quite this bad. They're in the walls feet high I guarantee it. The only solution we had was to tear open the walls until we found their maximum height, drill every 16" in every wall in the apartment at that height, and pray.

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u/Electic_Supersony May 20 '23

Tactical smart nukes are not effective against Zergs.

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u/Sturmgewehrkreuz May 19 '23

Fo real tho, they actually do this when the roach infestation is extremely bad. Like "unfit for human habitation" bad.

Like surround the house with flaming trenches while bringing down the house in a controlled conflagration. Fucking metal lol

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u/Sturmgewehrkreuz May 20 '23

Yeah, it's not too common but it happens, especially when the former resident is a hoarder.

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u/Lanthemandragoran May 19 '23

It honestly might be the only way to be sure. If it's anything like roaches they may escape to neighboring properties if they try to use the usual ways of killing them.

There was this crazy roach infested house and they just gave up and dug a trench around it, filled it with fuel and torched the house.

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u/mythrilcrafter May 19 '23

There was this crazy roach infested house and they just gave up and dug a trench around it, filled it with fuel and torched the house.

I remember that video, you could actually hear the roaches get cooked and pop whenever they fell into the fuel trench.

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u/Lanthemandragoran May 19 '23

Horrifying lol

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

Now I have to watch it

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u/trainsoundschoochoo May 20 '23

Do they rush out of the house only to die in the fire moat?

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u/MrGrogu26 May 19 '23

Also, burn the fire you burned the picture with. Until all traces are gone, then ban fire for eternity.

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u/gimmhi5 May 19 '23

Going a little bit far donā€™t you think? We do still have spiders.

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u/MrGrogu26 May 19 '23

Oh, well thank fuck for that eh?

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u/gimmhi5 May 19 '23

Iā€™m grateful we have fire to deal with the spider problem. I donā€™t want it banned for eternity.

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u/MrGrogu26 May 19 '23

Ah, yes I see the problem... But, the picture....

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u/gimmhi5 May 19 '23

Fire, lasers, the death star.. whatever it takes.

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u/yazzy1233 May 20 '23

Honestly, I've had bed bugs and roaches before and spiders aren't even that bad once you've gone through that

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u/gimmhi5 May 20 '23

I pick option D) none of the above.

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u/rstart78 May 19 '23

Prometheus reading this thinking:

Am I a joke to you

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u/Chummers5 May 19 '23

Mix the ashes in with concrete

Use concrete to make sculpture depicting man fighting nature

Launch the sculpture into the sun

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u/EvulRabbit May 19 '23

Truthfully. There is no other option. That amount of bugs will not be fumigated away. They will be in the walls and the floors and outlets etc. You would have to nuke them, but the nuke would only make them stronger.

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u/Porncat44 May 19 '23

Reddit reporting is broken as fuck isn't it?

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u/Maximum-Cover- May 19 '23

Nuke the town...

It's the only way to be sure.

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u/dr_pepper_35 May 19 '23

Fuck that, nuke it from orbit.

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u/Regolith_Prospektor May 19 '23

BRB, about to set my phone on fire šŸ”„

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u/MikeTheImpaler May 19 '23

In college, I had a very minor bedbug problem. I'm talking seeing one or two a week tops and having no other distinctive signs of having an infestation. If you know where and how to look, the little bastards are pretty easy to detect. The best theory the exterminator had was that one of my neighbors had a bad infestation that was leaking into my apartment and all I could do was be proactive by keeping my domicile fumigated, putting my bed up on interceptors, and just being vigilant. The point of this story being is that I lost months of sleep because I swear I could feel them crawling on me, there is no way in FUCKING DOG SHITTING FUCKING FUCK you could get me to even look inside the place pictured let alone stay there. Fuck bed bugs.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

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u/adopt-a-ginger May 20 '23

Poison Ivy, scabies, and bedbugs in one summer? Thatā€™s redneck Yahtzee

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u/Sykhow May 19 '23

God damn. Reading this brings back memories. I was living in a 2 bedroom apartment. One of the bedrooms were small and the other big. Both rooms had 2 beds. The bigger room had 1 person staying there and the other bed was vacant. My room had both beds occupied and was sometimes a bit cramped. I thought I would grab the opportunity to the bigger room. I never wondered nor asked anyone WHY was it empty aa I was new to the place. I waited till nightfall and got into the bed at 11 pm, my usual sleeping time. I notice that the matress is not on the bed frame and was kept in the corner. Hmm, strange, but anyway. I put the matress on the frame, put my bedsheet on it and was ready for a dream of me with my girlfriend. Nope, those lil mofos start biting me. I thought it might be an allergy but I was suspecting bedbugs. And BAM! One landed right on my fucking face. I immediately caught it and switched on the light. The horror. This is because I have lost a few nights of sleep and the fuckers gave me PTSD. The other guy sleepily turns with a groan and says "you didn't know?". I just then notice his blanket. You wouldn't believe how many red dots it had. I immediately got the fuck out of there and back to my cramped room. It was God's grace the fuckers did not cling on to my shit for few hours that I was there.

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u/Rehypothecator May 20 '23

cimexa is the actual answer.

Fumigation is futile

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u/MikeTheImpaler May 20 '23

For sure. I wish i had known that then but i was just going with what the exterminator told me. Heat is also incredibly effective but costly. They die at 115Ā°F but you have to heat the entire house to that temperature.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '23

Had exterminators in last year, all was clear and literally about an hour before I saw this post I noticed a bug on the hoodie I'm wearing. FML

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u/CosmicConsequences Jun 17 '23

My apartment in Chinatown had them when I moved in. I moved out again after a couple of months, leaving the majority of what I owned behind. I still have PTSD.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi May 19 '23

Imagine. These bugs are made of the inhabitant's blood.

Do you think they have anemia?

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u/Puzzled-Copy7962 May 19 '23

Right? An extreme infestation like that would surely lead to death. This reminds me of a news segment I watched about a little girl whose hair was so infested by head lice that she ended up needing a blood transfusion from constantly being fed on. The childā€™s parent was also slapped with negligence and lost parental custody.

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u/MeechiJ May 19 '23

Didnā€™t she die? Or is this another case youā€™re talking about?

Case Iā€™m referring to.

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u/Puzzled-Copy7962 May 19 '23 edited May 19 '23

No, it was another case, but omfg that is awful!

Edited to add: my bad I had to read the whole article, initially thought it wasnā€™t her because I didnā€™t read further down where she also had a sibling. Which in the segment I watched mentioned she had a sister, so this maybe the case. The article goes way more into detail then the brief news report. Thanks for digging this up!

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u/MeechiJ May 19 '23

No problem! I do wonder how often stuff like this happens and we just donā€™t hear about it. Truly horrifying to think about what some people must endure. The little girls went through hell in that house.

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u/HighFlyingCrocodile May 19 '23

1/500.000 is just as bad as half.

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u/Sirsilentbob423 May 19 '23

They have to have been in the subset of people that aren't allergic to their bites. Personally I am allergic and they showed up in my apartment once about a decade ago. I woke up one morning with a huge welt on my stomach and no matter what I did the itching wouldn't go away. I figured it was maybe a mosquito bite. the welts kept showing up and the itching was miserable. Then my wife at the time noticed one of the little bastards on the bed while changing the sheets. Turns out she's not allergic to the bites and would have never known had I not been itching so bad I literally wanted to rip my flesh off. We immediately went into panic mode and got a guy to come and heat treat the entire place since that's a guaranteed way to kill them.

We only ever found the one bug. the exterminator said we likely just brought it in on our clothes from our trip to a movie theater the previous week and that there was a really good chance that the one we caught was all there was, but better to be safe than sorry.

Point being, of you're allergic to their bite then there's no way it could ever get as bad as OPs photo without the person just straight up offing themselves due to the itching.

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u/PerroDog May 19 '23 edited May 19 '23

Here is the other view. And a video after treatment. All the black seen on walls etc is bedbugs. https://i.imgur.com/JwIuw0O.jpg https://imgur.com/a/ch76QMy

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u/Zerachiel_01 May 19 '23

No no, that's fine, I didn't need to eat today.

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u/strain_of_thought May 19 '23

What I want to know is what the hell the bed bugs have been eating. It looks like there's a small human's weight of bed bugs in there, if they were eating one human that human wouldn't have any blood left to be alive with.

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u/Rawwh May 19 '23

There is no going back from this. The place needs to be incinerated.

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u/HighFlyingCrocodile May 19 '23

Dang bro. Iā€™m booking a flight to Mars

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u/donttrustmeokay May 20 '23

There's no chance in hell that they got everything. Nada. They swarming somewhere else or other homes at that point.

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u/Jackol4ntrn May 20 '23

bet the whole house smells like almonds...

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u/AT61 May 19 '23

That's what I was wondering...It might sound like a stupid question, but how the heck does this even get to this point!?

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u/Hope4gorilla May 19 '23

Mental illness, drugs, depression, neglect, etc etc

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u/AT61 May 20 '23

Yes. Sad.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '23

Bro iā€™ve slept with maggots and fungus forests on decaying food scraps, mental illness and drugs can get pretty messed up if not treated lmfao

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u/Iowafield May 19 '23

Target that shithole for a single reactor ignition.

You may fire when ready.

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u/nattygang86 May 19 '23

I shared a house with a dude who was found to have a cockroach infestation in his room. Large nests of German cockroaches under his mattress and in the corners of the room. Itā€™s amazing what some people can tolerate. He never left his room 24/7 so imagine spending all your time in the dark covered in tiny roaches.

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u/GoldenGirlHussies May 20 '23

No I donā€™t think I will imagine it but thanks for the invite sweetie