{"id":394686,"date":"2017-06-07T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/07\/angry-man-retaliates-against-city-hall-with-cup-of-100-bedbugs\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:00:35","slug":"angry-man-retaliates-against-city-hall-with-cup-of-100-bedbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/07\/angry-man-retaliates-against-city-hall-with-cup-of-100-bedbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry man retaliates against city hall with cup of 100 bedbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>A man unleashed approximately 100 bedbugs at the Augusta City Center in Maine on Friday, causing officials to close the building and summon pest control.<\/p>\n<p>The man emptied a container filled with the insects on a counter when staff informed him that he did not qualify for assistance to address his bedbug issue, the Kennebec Journal reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe whipped out a cup (full of live bedbugs) and slammed it on the counter, and bam, off they flew, maybe 100 of them,\u201d City Manager William Bridgeo told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The man had applied to the state\u2019s \u201cgeneral assistance\u201d program after his former apartment\u2019s bed bug problem caused him to get rejected from a new place to live.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Bed bugs thrown on counter inside City Center in Augusta by man, the city manager says (image ctsy: City Manager William Bridgeo) pic.twitter.com\/u39Ouzs1vJ<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Homer WGME (@teddyhomernews) June 2, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WGME producer Ted Homer shared a series of photos showing the bugs scattered around a desk.<\/p>\n<p>A municipal manager since 1976, Bridgeo said he could not recall \u201canything as yucky as this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees immediately called police, who located the man, according to WGME.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many people cringe at the thought of bedbugs, which research has shown are becoming resistant to current insecticides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man unleashed approximately 100 bedbugs at the Augusta City Center in Maine on Friday, causing officials to close the building and summon pest control. 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