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Author Topic: Bed-Bug Infestation Closes Theatre Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-19-2014 11:07 AM                     Theater Temporarly Closes After Bedbug Infestation Link To Story LODI- Two teenagers who are covered in bed bugs bites claim they got them while sitting in movie a theater in Lodi. “When we woke up in the next morning, we looked at each other and saw that we had all these red bumps all over us,” one of the girls said. The girls did not release their names to FOX40 and did not show their faces on camera, because they were embarrassed. “We don’t want to get bullied. And we don’t want to talk about it all day either,” one of the girls said. Family member Matthew Wendt told FOX40 the girls went to see a movie at the Lodi Stadium 12 Cinema Friday night. Saturday morning, they woke up with hundreds of bites on their arms and legs. “You shouldn’t have to worry about bugs at your local theater,” one of the girls said. Wendt said he reported the bites to the manager of Lodi Stadium 12 Saturday morning, but moviegoers continued to sit in the same theater. “At around 2 o’clock when the movie got out, he called me and said they actually found bed bugs inside the theater,” Wendt said. The two girls are not the only ones who claimed bed bugs bit them in the theater. “It was a really bad rash on my arms and on my legs too. From where you’re sitting, from where my skin was touching the seat,” Stephanie Booth said. Booth revealed faint bite marks on her arms. She said she brought her daughter to the theater a few weeks ago, and that they both had bed bug bites afterward. “I wish they would have told us about it or put up a public notice, because she was taken out of school for itching, and I had to leave work already,” Booth said. Lodi Stadium 12 did post a public notice on their doors Sunday. It read: “IN CONSIDERATION FOR OUR PATRONS WE ARE CLOSED TODAY FOR A THOROUGH INSPECTION. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” Wendt said management decided to close the theater only after he posted about the alleged bed bug encounter on Facebook. “It went kind of viral and when it got really big, that’s when they closed the whole theater down,” said Wendt. FOX40 has reached out to the movie theater for a comment. They have not yet responded. A Facebook post from Lodi Stadium 12 says the theater will be shut down until Monday for an inspection. ]  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2014 04:16 PM                        quote: Jim Cassedy And we don’t want to talk about it all day either,” one of the girls said. They're going to talk about it for years  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-19-2014 04:46 PM                     Quote: "The girls did not release their names to FOX40. . " >Yet two lines down, a 'family member' who, based on his comments is most likely their dad, is quoted BY NAME ! D'oh! Quote: "and did not show their faces on camera, because they were embarrassed...." > Oh, c'mon- - they weren't THAT ugly. (Sorry, just being sarcastically snarky here today )  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 08-19-2014 05:16 PM                     Those BEDBUGS need to get their Priorities Straight. That's why their called Bedbugs not Theater Seat Bugs. I guess a person should carry a can of LYSOL when they Visit these type theaters and give your Seat a good Spray Over before Sitting in it  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 08-19-2014 05:34 PM                     I checked the theater's website. They are still closed, or rather there are no showtimes posted for today.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-20-2014 07:15 AM                     Do theaters change the coverings on head rests between each use? This is a standard practice in the airline seating. The spread of head lice could become a problem with the high back reclining seats with head rests.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-20-2014 11:05 AM                        I have a feeling that practice went away. According to a flight attendant writing on Quora, the tray tables and armrests get "wiped down" between flights and trash is picked up, but everything else just gets cleaned occasionally. Given the quick turnover between some flights I've been on, I even have my doubts about the armrests and tray tables.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-20-2014 03:03 PM                        Someone who knew a Ryanair flight attendant once told me that the reason they put leather seats in all their planes is not to give passengers a more comfy travelling experience (which, let's face it, has never been Ryanair's priority), but rather because it's easier to clean vomit from them in cases when a traditional seat would have to be removed from the plane and reupholstered. As for bedbugs on a plane, I'm not sure if anyone has done the movie, but there certainly is [url= http://"http://www.ba-bites.com/"]a]http://"http://www.ba-bites.com/"]a[/url] website[/url]! This must be a nightmare for the theater owner, though. I've encountered mice and rats in the non-public areas of one or two theaters, but they're relatively easy to get rid of (and, contrary to the myths and stereotypes, are scared of people and tend to stay away from them) compared to bedbugs. Edit - whenever I remove the space from the link above, it reappears in the actual post. A bug of the Grace Hopper variety in the forum software, maybe?  |  IP: Logged

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