Victor Kerlow

Coming out of my brownstone in Greenwich Village with my family, we passed a couch and a matching love seat on the sidewalk. Both pieces had big, taped-on signs that read “BEDBUGS: KEEP OFF!” in bold crimson letters. Naturally, we steered clear of the furniture and made our way to a restaurant a few blocks away.

After we finished eating, my family and I took a leisurely stroll back home. As we reached the spot where we had first come upon the bedbug-ridden furniture, we saw three college-age guys trying to balance the couches on skateboards!

“Stop!” My dad yelled. “Didn’t you see the signs? There are bed bugs on those!”

A guy with red hair and a curly beard steadying one side of the couch said: “Yeah, we know. We just put those signs there so no one would take these.”

But Bell Environmental’s question is: how do they know the couches really didn’t have bed bugs?  Bed bugs hide in the smallest cracks and crevices, including inside the springs of couches.  These college students may not be as clever as they think…..