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The union representing Detroit’s bus drivers has reportedly asked local lawmakers to put pressure on the transit agency to help stop the spread of bedbugs on buses.

Adult bedbug at high magnification.

The Detroit News reports that roughly 50 Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) drivers have said they’ve seen bedbugs on buses, and some have been bitten within the past year, according to Henry Gaffney, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26.

After receiving a letter from Gaffney in May, DDOT chief executive Ron Freeland said Thursday he asked a maintenance crew to investigate and sent a letter to the union later that month saying any infested bus would be cleaned.

The amount of bedbugs the crew has found so far in the cleaning process isn’t unusual for a service with an average of 100,000 riders each day, Freeland told the newspaper.

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  1. F.D.R. in Hell

    July 1st, 2012

    Children of the Anti-Christ…coming to all forms of Mass Transit.

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  2. Unneutral

    July 1st, 2012

    Oh, believe me, the bugs that infest D.C. are much more troublesome.

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  3. persecutor

    July 1st, 2012

    Bedbugs in New Fallujah? I’m shocked, I tell you!

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  4. jwm

    July 1st, 2012

    Yeeks!
    That’s one big ol’ honkin’ bedbug.
    I’d walk.

    JWM

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  5. Tony R

    July 1st, 2012

    Gee, when I was a kid, and America was populated with Americans, I don’t recall bedbugs being a big problem. I wonder what happened?

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  6. Frosteetoes

    July 1st, 2012

    We never had this sort of problem while I was growing up.

    Gee, what is causing this….?

    Immigrants, illegal and otherwise from 3rd world countries? Environmental whacko’s who managed to get a useful product banned that eradicated these parasites, and btw, the tick population has been bad since they stopped spraying neighborhoods.

    It’s disgusting. Don’t even leave your luggage on the floor of a hotel room. Pull the covers off of the bed and check it for any signs of them, ask for a different room if there are. Oh, and bring hand sanitizer for the remote. It’s the dirtiest thing in the room.

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  7. Alxandro

    July 1st, 2012

    New Ted Nugent song – Motor City Bedbugs

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  8. mkultra

    July 1st, 2012

    How did you get a naked picture of valerie jarrett?!

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  10. IronyCurtain

    July 2nd, 2012

    Love these Tales Of Life In The Animal Kingdom.
    As I said before, can you blame the bedbugs? They’re just trying to get the hell out of Detroit.
    In fact, I submit that the bugs are the most civilized of all Detroit’s species.

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  11. Team America

    July 2nd, 2012

    That’s why I walk. EEEWWWWW.

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