Women Suing After Being 'Eaten Alive' By Bedbugs In Hotel

[matcom]

<snip>

NEW YORK -- Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite!

But two Swiss businesswomen charge they were eaten alive by bedbugs at a New York City hotel where they spent a week in September. The women, Ksenija Knezevic and Marlies Barisic, are suing Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. They said they had a lousy time trying to sleep.

The women said the bedbug attacks began the night they checked into the hotel across from Madison Square Garden.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, said they suffered bedbug bites over their torsos, arms and legs. Their lawyer, Alberto Ebanks, said bugs also bit their cheeks and necks and caused possibly permanent scarring.

Ebanks said the women had to seek medical treatment while in New York, where they were given antibiotics, and when they returned to Switzerland. He said photographs of the women's wounds are "gruesome."

"They were eaten alive," Ebanks said Wednesday. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

Ebanks said that when the women told employees of the Seventh Avenue hotel that they were uncomfortable and something was wrong, one immediately exclaimed, "Bedbugs!"

The suit charges "extreme and outrageous" negligence on the part of the hotel, because employees knew about the bedbug problem and did nothing. A spokeswoman for the hotel said they don't comment on pending legal cases.

http://www.wftv.com/money/5441855/detail.html

[rbnyc]

1. Yuck!!

I wonder how much that place is per night.

[ET Awful]

3. I just heard a snippet the other day saying there is what amounts to a

bedbug epidemic in NYC right now.

I think it was on AAR that I heard it, can't say for sure though.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. It was on one of the morning news shows, too

And not just the small microscopic bed bugs, either.

Really hitting Manhattan.

[LynneSin]

6. That 'snippet' was an article in the NYTimes

I couldn't sleep at all that night for fear that bedbugs were attacking me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. I've stayed at that hotel....

Not recently.

[ForrestGump]

4. They must be some

hefty bedbugs. Maybe they were released into the New York sewer system and grew reallllllly big. :o

[Hugin]

7. People bring them home as pets and tire of them...

*Flush* Away they go, until they show up in someone's bed!

[ForrestGump]

9. Sad. So sad.

There are a million stories in the naked city. Some of them are even true.

[AngryAmish]

8. Where can I get my hands on some DDT?

and I don't mean the Jake Roberts variety.

[RedCloud]

10. How can these women talk if they were eaten alive?

And the fact that they were Swiss probably means the bed bugs thought they should make holes in all things Swiss.

The bugs are innocent, I tell you! They just succumbed to too delectable ladies for their own good.

[ForrestGump]

11. I could answer this

But it wouldn't be prudent. :o