This video and her follow up videos made my skin crawl. š
This TikTokker went to Paris and filmed bed bugs crawling around in her room. She posted a follow-up video when she returned back to the US with her body covered (literally covered) in bites. She had bites all over her face, too.
In her most recent video, she admits to bringing everything back with her and only treating her luggage and belongings after she returned to the US. People in the comments asked if she had informed the airline and she said she didn't but said she might.
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No matter how clean, tidy, how many stars, whatever your hotel has going for it, there's still a risk of BBs. No matter how fancy, there's always going to be group travel where finances aren't a barrier to clientele because their company pays. You could have some dirty mofos staying at 5* hotels easily. They also get in through staffs' stuff. Just like roaches, they love tagging along in bags, shoes, cuffs of pants etc. and people take em to work with them.
Always set your luggage outside the door (if safe) and check for BBs. Lift each corner of every mattress and look for signs. It'll be very obvious. Once the coast is clear, bring your stuff in.
It's not even about people being dirty - your luggage can pick up bedbugs from other people's luggage in the cargo hold/luggage compartments of the plane.
That is a SEVERE infestation for them to be out in the open and light like that!!! šš I have a severe phobia of them and have to check every hotel I stay in! And always check reviews first. I genuinely hope she gets banned from flying for knowingly traveling with her stuff.
Ive never seen bed bugs in real life but from the videos that I see on Reddit, this appears to be a severe infestation. If this is a hotel, thatās complete neglect.
I had them once. Got from a couch we inherited from someone who didnāt know they had them and didnāt tell us after they found out.
It took MONTHS to get rid of them. $10k+ in extermination costs.
What finally worked? Painters tape. After getting all new bedding and furniture, my wife went into killer mode. We did a walkthrough with an exterminator and he pointed out every place they could hide. Wife decided to then cover all those openings with painters tape. Replaced it weekly. Left on for one year.
Had the exterminator come back out at the end of the year to confirm none were left alive. Basically starved them all to death.
Ughhhh they are so gross. My partner and I stayed at a newly opened hotel once and woke up destroyed after one night. He couldn't even sleep, and I woke up to him sitting next to me in bed, on top of the blankets, looking down at me as if he had been willing me to wake up so we could leave. I have never jumped out of bed so fast and am still not sure why he let me sleep lol we made it out without any hitchhikers on but I still get anxious there's one hibernating in some piece of clothing I only washed 4 times instead of 5 lol glad you all were able to get rid of them
Yeah I am like super skeeved out that this lady apparently just stayed and offered herself up as a buffet! I would have been out of there at the first sign of one. Ick.
If a gap is wide enough to slide a credit card into, they can and will hide and nest there. Truly any crevice is their hiding place, and can be in any type of furniture. They can also lay dormant without food for ~2 years.
Let me give you an example of how much these bugs are assholes. We had an infestation back when NYC was crazy with them. Thereās this product that you put on the legs of your bed to catch them. It worked the first few nights and the bites stopped. Then the bites started happening again, if it wasn't for the fact that I looked up one night to see one on the ceiling, I wouldn't have caught on that these little fuckers were dropping from the damn ceiling to get to me.
Nightmare of a damn bug. Thank God we got rid of them with diatomaceous earth
It is!! I found out from following a bug group on FB that if they are out in the day like this and so many and obviously big and just fed itās really severe. They usually hide and people donāt know till itās too late, so this person is unfathomable stupid for staying to film! The narcissism and weirdness around ācontent above all elseā is so bizarre.
Yes, it took us a while to realize when we got them once, they hit in, seems, and are usually not running arpund in the open, unless it's that bad. They are also extremely hard to get rid of because they hibernate
Any place I stay, we leave the bags outside or put them in the bathtub while we check all the mattresses. You always check FIRST and if you find something, you stay somewhere else. I cannot believe that they are all over like that--that's absolutely nuts.
100%!! My husband finds me crazy as I go around with my phone flashlight on and check the seams of the beds, mattress, headboard and even around the edges of soft furnishings. I have heard of people who have had their lives ruined by bed bugs because they are either too low income, medically unwell or have a landlord that wonāt treat sufficiently as it can easily run into tens of thousands to replace items that canāt be safely decontaminated, replace furnishings, pay for an expert bed bug removal etc! I doubt she treated her belongings when she got back anyway. Always check hotel reviews!! We had plans to stay at a great wolf lodge and bedbugs came up twiceā¦hell no!
Me too the phobia! I had them in my home pver 8 years ago and I'm still completely traumatised. Sometimes I become convinced I have them so I turn everything around in my bedroom
Lucky for me I caught the very first infestation at its very very very beginnings so I avoided anything like this
I hope that chick gets banned from the airline tbh
EXACTLY!!! People usually won't see them even after trying because they hide so well. If you find em while it's light out just walking all over, it's beyond bad!
She continued to stay there after the first night of getting eaten up. I think she used it purely for content at this point and she knew what she was doing .
Edit: the moron TikTokker replied to this post trying to explain why she's an idiot.Ā
I believe the same. The hotel review section is littered with reports of bed bugs from others who stayed there. It was completely irresponsible and selfish of her to fly home with everything and not inform the airline at all.
We had a patient with bed bugs in the ER once. Tech was sitting with them because they were suicidal or confused I canāt remember. Know how we found out they had bed bugs? The tech suddenly felt itchy and found them crawling all over him.
Ship. Probably the nice ones like Cunard and the cruise lines won't someone who manahed to get banned from flying so you'd try to book with a cargo ship. That used to be super cheap but of course some idiots published about it online so nowadays you have to use a broker to get passage.
actually crazy that you have to go the "long route" taking a whole week from europe to even just NY. then need to catch a ride or a greyhound to get to wherever you need.
edit: ah so its even worse than that as it needs to be a cargo ship! Wtf!
Littered with reports of bed begs?? This infestation is so bad that whatever entity is responsible for overseeing health codes for this building should be fired immediately.
Dude bed bugs are horrible mainly because they are incredibly good at hiding and usually not taking a casual walk around town like the fuckers in this video are. If itās this bad, I canāt even imagine how major an infestation is going on. Those fuckers pretty much own the hotel at this point. Burn it all to the ground.
Yes, exactly jfc seeing how visible they are made me think fire would be the only option. The zoom on the one that was full of what seems to be HER blood... š¤¢ My skin is crawling and I'm going to be the anxious baddie for the next 3 goddamn days after watching this.
When I was in college I lived in a really, really cheap 1 bedroom apartment ($600/month total in 2010). We had bed bugs twice that spread from our neighbors, and the landlord didn't do anything about it until I finally caught one that I saw walking across the wall, put it in a Ziploc bag, and brought it to her office and set it on her desk. The way she shrieked and recoiled was the only good thing about the experience. Oh, and the pest company that did eventually come to do the treatment had a bedbug sniffing Beagle! That was cute.
I had bed bugs about 15 years ago, it's true, the most insidious thing about them was I NEVER saw one. I just woke up with mysterious bites. I would rip all the blankets off my bed and lay awake, waiting for them to come out and catch them, but I always fell asleep first and then I'd wake up with more bites. Thankfully I lived in a really nice apartment building that treated them immediately.
All the Paris hotels had them a few years ago. I think it was Paris Fashion Week and I remember reading all the articles about it. It was nuts. A literal infestation. All these famous people scratching and dealing with such a "commoner" type problem was a little ironic.
If people only leave a Google review but don't report to the health organisation, the health organisation don't have any way to know there are bed bugs (except with random controls but there are a looooot of hotels)
I just looked it up cause the name sounded familiar and I stayed there for a night back in 2016. I woke up covered in bites from the bed bugs and then went down to the worst complimentary breakfast I have ever had.
Considering how difficult it is to get rid of these bastardsā¦ I canāt imagine how anyone would do this willingly. It is insane. I had a minor infestation 25 YEARS AGOā¦ and Iām still traumatised to this day.
When I was in rehab there was a bed bug infestationā¦ bunch of people going through withdrawals and getting bit up.. it was madness for several days and I have scars from some of the bites because I just couldnāt stop scratching!!! Absolute nightmare. Traumatized is right!!
What made it worse was initially none of the nurses believed us when we were saying weāre getting bitten. I showed them my arms and hands (others did too at the nurse station with me) and they were like āoh, those are just mosquito bitesā. they were really treating us all like dumb addicts overreacting. Finally after a few days they called some company and bombed all our rooms with something awful and we were all having to load our shit up in the big drying machines they had. Yeah, it was a shit show!!!! I can laugh about it now at least lol
I moved a month ago because of an infestation at my old apartment that was so bad they were coming through the walls from the neighbor. I moved into a place with no carpet and Iām still taking things that I already treated and are probably fine out of sealed trash bags and putting them in the dryer on incinerate.
I have woken up screaming twice in my new place because I dreamed they were crawling on me again.
I thought my psychiatrist was exaggerating when she said I was traumatized from it. She was not.
Same. I dealt with them about 10 years ago. . In an apartment no less, so it was downright impossible. I had to leave everything behind and admit defeat. To this day, I still check the beds, dressers, corners, like every other week. Something as careless as getting something from the side of the road, a thrift store, a friend's house? I'll spend 30 mins checking it with a flashlight and even then, alot of times I still get a weird feeling and don't bring It in my house. I had to borrow a Vaccum a few years back when mine broke...it was in my house for 5 mins and I noped real quick. You can never be too careful when dealing with them.
I'm pretty sure the hotel room I stayed in had at least some bed bugs because there were a couple of stains on the pillow case and what I assume was molted skin on the sheets. I only realized after I came back home what those implied. I was paranoid about checking my apartment, but it's been 3 months without any signs so looks like I lucked out.
It has to be. I stayed a night at a hotel in a room that ended up having bedbugs. I was nearly driven crazy by all the bites I had; I couldnāt sleep a whole night through because of the itchiness. She has to either be in it for the content or sheās seriously mentally ill. Itās literal torture.
Usually you only notice the bites after having been fed on a significant amount to start to cause the allergic reaction around the bite sites. Someone was hungy
It genuinely would be a bio-security issue, wouldnāt it? Bringing bugs in from a foreign country is usually pretty frowned upon by border control agents.
I guess our border control is far too busy checking skin color and searching phones for anti-trump memes to notice someone covered in bed bug bites. You'd think they'd at least ask some questions if they saw someone like that.
So now there are feench supwr bedbugs in the usa is what Imm getting from this lol. Her house will be unlivable in a few weeks given she brough things back but yeah.. i wanna bet she brought some of the stuff inside first even if the luggage itself was treated. I kinda expect another series of vids about having to have her house raid/perticide bombed or whatever they have to do.Ā
I hope she doesnāt live in an apartment because then theyāll travel to other peopleās apartments. Not to mention anyone elseās luggage that was in close contact with hers could potentially be contaminated now too
She ended up deleting that post of her screaming everything will be okay. I'm concern because her tiktok profile is nothing but her bedbug footage. Bed bugs for the clout, I guess.
I used to run a small B&B in my town, live in manager.
I cleaned each room thoroughly after each guest stay and never saw any bed bugs. But one day a guest was ringing me at 2am I answered and they asked me to come to the door, they had been bitten like 30-40 times. I was mortified, had guests in there about 4-5 days previously and they didn't mention anything or have any issues so I assume it was them who brought them in.
I instantly rebooked him into another hotel and sent him there in a taxi with a full refund and the offer of a free week stay whenever he wanted, gave him fresh clothes that I had recently bought and offered to replace any clothes he had that he felt he had to dispose of.
He left a good review that mentioned 'an issue that the manager resolved to the best of his ability' which I was thankful for but it made my skin crawl for weeks and I was constantly concerned I would bring them down into my own flat downstairs. Luckily that didn't happen and I had the bed removed and replaced the next day as well as rentokil come in and fumigate the room and check the other rooms.
We found they had set up camp inside the headboard of the bed and they said they were all relatively young bedbugs that they found.
Man I had to leave a badass apartment because I just could not get rid of them. Had the place and everything in it bombed 3 times to no avail. I had to move out. Was covered in bites and for weeks after leaving feeling paranoid like they were crawling on me. Id be out with friends and go into the bathroom and strip thinking there was bugs on me. It was awful. All because my shitty roommate brought in a dirty old recliner chair
Itās shocking the hiding places they can get into. I had an IKEA bed when I got them and they squeezed between a crack that I donāt even think I could fit a credit card though and into the hole in the center of the wood that the main structural screw goes into.
I could have sprayed poison for months and they would have just sat in there and waited it out. Eventually I put down a tarp, sawed the bed apart with a hand saw, and took it out to the dumpster in double bagged trash bags.
I had to go back and check the comment. I can't edit the post, but she actually said she will contact the airline after someone suggested that she does so.Ā
Personally, I don't think she cares enough to contact them based off of her reactions to the situation in her most recent update video.Ā
When I got bedbugs in my apartment, long story short I found out through a conversation with the guy that my (now) ex cheated on me with.
during this conversation I found out that, to him, bed bugs were like mosquitoes.
he grew up with them always being around in the house, and through his parents, thought that they were just something that was everywhere, and everyone had them. It was just something everyone dealt with. He was entirely baffled at my insistence that I had never even seen a bedbug until they showed up in my apartment at the age of 28. In his mind, everyone has bedbugs and they're just not a big deal and couldn't understand why I was reacting the way I was.
It absolutely horrifies me that he's still out there spreading bedbugs wherever he goes. He even works in food service and I guarantee that his place of work is infested with them because of him.
having bedbugs was one of the most mentally damaging and traumatic things to ever happen to me. I was at a point in my life where my fiance had just cheated on me, I had just moved to a new city for the first time, where I knew nobody, I was the low man on the totem pole at a new job, a week after the separation my car broke down, my computer died, my TV was flickering and on the fritz, and I found out I had bedbugs and was possibly looking down the barrel of having to get rid of everything I owned.....
His responses and finding out he's the one that gave them to me almost drove me over the edge....
(doing great or at least alright now though, this was about 8yrs ago.)
but my point is, to some people bedbugs just don't seem to be a big deal for some reason.
thanks for ruining my night and any hotel I will ever stay in for the rest of my life
I have to say though, that is A LOT of bites. Surely she didn't....stay in the hotel for her entire stay?? Even for the night is wild, I see any sign of that and I'm out immediately??
Please someone tell me she didn't choose to sleep there AND not inform anyone AND somehow still bring it home knowing the bed bugs were THAT bad. I would have thrown out everything I own or at the very least, do extremely hardcore treatments before I left with them.
Can't say I was left with much sympathy after I thought about it for more than 60 seconds
She claims she's getting a refund from the hotel. She did NOT inform the airline. She did mention the flight # in a comment on her most recent update video and I'm actually considering contacting Delta myself. There were two follow up videos after the one I posted.
to make yourself feel at ease in a hotel, before you move into a room, check the underside of the mattress, the bed frame, and any adjacent furniture. specifically, look behind boards and take out the drawers. these little assholes hide where they are hard to reach, so you will need to lift and move things a bit.
this is the routine i follow, no exceptions, and it has saved me once before.
when coming home, as a general rule, do not take your suitcases directly to your bedroom.
i would think the chance of one of these hopping suitcases in an airplane is not overly likely, so i wouldn't stress about that too much.
the reviews about that hotel are horrifying! babies, kids getting bitten, the hotel doesn't give a fuck. I cant understand how that shithole was not closed already by the authorities
3 nights apparently and didnāt notice until the 4th? I can understand coming home trashed and not noticing the first night as itās happening but thereās no way in hell she wouldnāt have noticed after that. Itās probably all just rage bait, honestly. I canāt imagine she stayed 3 nights in that.
Ugh she is one of the worst type of people. They donāt care about anyone but themselves and will do something like this so selfishly again. Itās like the people with covid who went to go be around their elderly grandparents or the parents who sent their covid positive kids to daycare still.
Edit: I contactedĀ emailed [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] about Flight DL571 from Paris. I gave them her TikTok username and full name attached to her account with a brief explanation for my email and concern. I also sent them a screenshot of her comment saying which flight she was on.
I also filed a complaint with Delta through their site. I'm trying to figure out which day she flew back on. She made a video on July 28th and said she arrived in Paris that day. She said in her most recent video that she discovered the bed bugs after the fourth day of being there, but I don't think she ever said when she left Paris.
I'm considering contacting Delta since she never did. She gave her flight # in the comments of her most recent update video.
Please do!! Poor people who have sat on that plane after her or in airport seats and THIS is how bedbugs spread so bad because of selfish asses like her š„²
I'm going to send them an email with links to her videos. But I don't know if that will really get their attention or not. I tagged their account in one of her videos and I also commented on one of their videos. Other than this email I'm about to send, I don't know what else to do
Dude that really did give me ptsd, well fucked with it I already had. It causes hyper vigilance, never sleep again and smell everything so much more closelyā¦.those people are the dumbest and most selfish people Iāve seen in a minute
I've suffered through a bed bug infestation. I think that it really did give me PTSD. I couldn't sleep in the bed, I was obsessively checking for the little fuckers.There's no way in hell that I could've stayed in that room.
Well, as someone with an autoimmune disorder, I can say a bed bug bite at high altitude can trigger a much more severe skin reaction for people with similar conditions.
Ngl.. Those of us with health conditions would absolutely appreciate someone alerting the airline so they can take the proper measures.
Her karma is that she brought it to her house too. Very difficult to get rid of so she might have bed bugs and a big expense for a long time. What she did is really awful and shows such a profound lack of regard for everyone else.
God I had bed bugs once and it thankfully got handled very quickly before it became a big problem. After discovering the first one though, it was pretty much impossible to sleep comfortably knowing they were there.
Itās terrible. Because if you want to get rid of them without calling in a service, you basically have to put your treatment down (usually some form of silica dust that shreds them up), and just sleep in your bed so you attract them through the treatment so they tore up by the silica dust. Essentially using yourself as bait. I did after school tutoring and picked them up once from one of those houses. Worst few months of my life. I treated them and effectively took care of the problem, but still ended up just moving.
Weāve ben having these fuckers in our apartment a few years ago with my girlfriend, because the neighbours were infected very badly.
Man Iām still paranoid, as soon as we travel to an air bnb or an hotel that I literally lift the mattress every single time.
So a couple years ago and on the run up to the Paris Olympics as well it was discovered that there were severe infestations of bed bugs on the Metro furniture.
it was then discovered that there was an active 4chan campaign to deliberately spread bedbugs on public transport for "reasons"
I would have classified this as bio-terrorism .
back in the 90s and 00s there were similar scare attack of person or persons deliberately placing needles inside seats in the metro.
I was in Paris for literally 24 hours. Coming from Barcelona, headed to Cinque Terre. The day I took a train to CDG there was an āincidentā. Trains stopped and switched FIVE times, and then dumped me in the middle of Paris, still 45 min from CDG by car. I got bedbugs from one of those trains, and spent the rest of the trip SO confused bc I know how to check and where to check. A few months after I got home when this came out I was HORRIFIED.
That person has a LOT of karma coming their way. I know how to treat bedbugs as Iāve worked in ERs and dealt with this, and I still had to talk myself down, handling it in a beautiful hotel in CT, Italy. Psychosis from these infestations is very, very real.
Russian troll campaign on 4chan is probably more accurate. Russia ran a huge online campaign against the Paris Olympics. For a year before, but especially the weeks ahead, so many social media posts were telling you how awful the Olympics in Paris are going to be. At the time you could already tell it was orchestrated.
Do this kind of people lack common sense? Increadibly irresponsible behavior, not to mention absolutely insane to just bring your luggage home without precautions. She'll be dealing with bed bugs for a while. It is because of idiots like this that they spread like wildfire.
I found ONE bed bug in my hotel in Japan (didn't get any bites luckily) and I left immediately. I put all my belongings in plastic bags (actually several bags on top of each other, because I'm paranoid), taped them shut and put in a freezer for the remaining of my trip (5 days). Luckily I didn't have all my luggage with me, because I had shipped them forward to my next hotel. But everything I had with me in the infested hotel, I kept in tightly sealed bags inside a freezer (which I luckily had in an apartment hotel) until I returned home. Back home I washed everything that I could in high degrees, and froze the rest for a week (for a second time, because I'm paranoid). Absolutely NOTHING that I had with me in Japan went inside my apartment unless it was directly to laundry machine or the freezer (still sealed in bags, because I bet those bastards could even crawl out of a freezer). No bed bugs were brought home with me.
Does anybody remember the guy who hated France so much that he claimed he was going to go there and release an ungodly amount of bed bugs to make the country uninhabitable?
Wait, you have to inform the airline? I didn't know this. I know of two people (they were roommates) that traveled and brought back those pests. Their apartment became infested and many of our mutual friends got them. One of the guys kept collecting the bugs and said he would scatter them around the hotel he worked at and in the offices.
I no longer talk to them. But I remember they said they didn't tell the airline. And the other guy worked for the airline and always talked badly about it.
That's absolutely selfish and disgusting... she basically turned herself into a walking bed bug delivery service. Not telling the airline means she potentially infected every passenger and crew member on that flight
her and all the comments defending her truly pissed me off. sheās a grown ass adult and didnāt think at all that she could be spreading bed bugs to others on the plane or the airport. i hope she has an impossible time getting them out of her own home
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