{"id":1528,"date":"2006-09-08T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/nypd_bedbug.html"},"modified":"2006-09-08T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:35:16","slug":"nypd_bedbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/nypd_bedbug.html","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Bedbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew police precincts had so many beds? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/450389p-379078c.html\">The city&#8217;s bedbug problem rolls on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Blood-sucking bedbugs have invaded a Brooklyn police precinct stationhouse &#8212; forcing cops to process arrests at a vermin-free NYPD building 15 blocks away, sources told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>The nasty problem in the 60th Precinct stationhouse in Coney Island began about three weeks ago when a cop noticed bites on his ankles, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Soon prisoners lodged in holding cells started to complain &#8212; marking one of the rare times cops and criminals were on the same side of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Cops know that sometimes they must bring their job home with them. But they draw the line at bedbugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s bad enough to have to deal with these things at work, but how do we explain to our wives why we&#8217;re bringing home bugs?&#8221; an agitated cop complained.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Backstory: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/dont_let_the.html\">Don&#8217;t Let The . . .<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/its_endemic_pan.html\">It&#8217;s Endemic, Pandemic, This Epidemic<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/bedbugs_dont_wa.html\">Bedbugs Don&#8217;t Wait For Midterms Now, Do They?<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/dont_let_the_ga.html\">Don&#8217;t Let The Gasoline-Soaked Bedbugs Burst Into Flames In The Middle Of The Night, Setting Your Living Quarters On Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew police precincts had so many beds? The city&#8217;s bedbug problem rolls on: Blood-sucking bedbugs have invaded a Brooklyn police precinct stationhouse &#8212; forcing cops to process arrests at a vermin-free NYPD building 15 blocks away, sources told the Daily News. The nasty problem in the 60th Precinct stationhouse in Coney Island began about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}