Oh noes!

[huinare]

So I have the tacky level LJ account that gives you ads on the side (a.k.a. sell your soul for a paltry few more icons), and I'm enough inured to them that I usually don't notice them.  I just happened to see this one though:

Jan 5, 2012. BREAKING NEWS.
Bed Bug epidemic strikes 20% of Your City homes.
[picture of bugs and picture of a lower back with welts.] 
BED BUG EPIDEMIC. 
Protect Your Bed. 
BEDDEFENSE. 
All Natural Bed Bug Protection Device.

Bed Bug Epidemic in My City? And this has been going on for 11 months?  Criminy, why was I not informed sooner so I could get a Protection Device?  Let me get right on that...

ETA.  Just emptied the spam out of one of my email addresses, and lo and behold, near the top of the pile was an email titled Prevent Bed Bug Epidemic. 
Nay but it's too late, o too late, alas.  WHERE WERE YOU MISCREANTS ON JAN 4th?!

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

LOL at the vision of you proceeding calmly as normal while all around a Bed Bug epidemic rages. As you walk along the street, behind you desperate people are flinging mattresses from windows and setting fire to their bedclothes. :-D

[huinare.livejournal.com]

That is exactly how it went down, yes. X]

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am now trying to picture the Protection Device.

Somehow it keeps trying to look like a giant condom!

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

It probably is a giant condom! A bed condom. As opposed to a condom one uses on the bed.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That's how it tries to look for me, too!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I really can't argue with either of you. *sage nod*

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

We're number 2 and the city has zero programs to do anything about it! Go us! Er...

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Congrats? *proffers bouquet*

My metro area is actually pretty low on that 50-city list (a rare instance of arguable success)..