So I'm not crazy after all. Bed bugs really are on the rise, as my good childhood friend J. Clerkin-Whitcomb alerted me! He sent me this article by Paula Froelich over at Page Six:
WHAT'S EATING RALPH LAUREN? September 26, 2006 -- FASHION house Ralph Lauren is giving its designers the creepy crawlies - literally. Staffers say they've had to put up with an outbreak of bedbugs at the label's graphic design studio and shirt design offices at 650 Madison Ave. One affected employee told us, "I have bites all over me. This has gone on for over a month now." Ralph Lauren executives at first refused to exterminate "on grounds of bites alone," the insider says. "They wanted to see the bugs first. But bedbugs are notoriously invisible. So we have been here suffering forever. It is scandalous." A company rep said, "The exterminators were called and came in three weeks ago when the problem was first brought to our attention, and again last weekend. The employees in that office were offered a chance to relocate to a different floor." Let's hope the little critters don't pop up in any of the clothier's posh stores.
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Tags: bedbugs, ralph lauren
