Bed bugs are the Salem witches of 2010. People seem to see them everywhere or imagine that they're everywhere as an incident in downtown Toronto indicates. I'll quote the salient portion of the article from TheStar.com below:
"On Aug. 24, Toronto-based music writer Helen Spitzer attended a 6:10 screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto. Later that night, she awoke with itchy spots on her back, bottom and thighs — all body parts that would have come into contact with a theatre seat.
“I woke up and I was just like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so itchy,’ ” the 38-year-old recalled. “It took us about a day to think, ‘Oh my God, it must be the cinema.’ ”
Spitzer grew increasingly alarmed, researching bed bugs online and tweeting warnings to her followers about how bed bugs are transmitted.
Spitzer also used Twitter to air her suspicions the Scotiabank theatre might have bed bugs. She can’t remember exactly when she fired off the tweet — and Spitzer has since deleted the message — but her goal was to warn others of a potential infestation, she said.
So, she tweets about bed bugs to her followers which leads to more tweets and soon mass hysteria sets in. At the time, no one knew if bed bugs were really infesting the cinema but one tweet from an itchy individual sets off a firestorm that threatened to consume Canada and potentially cause it to sink into the sea. Maybe she was just, y'know, itchy.
Cineplex Entertainment which owns the theater hired a pest control company to sweep the venue and they found... no bed bugs. Can someone tweet an apology?
No comments:
Post a Comment