Rare Book Lover Banned From Library
DENVER — Who knew bed bugs could be book worms?
The Denver Public Library had to quarantine and fumigate four areas at the main branch in just the past three weeks because of bed bugs, KMGH-TV in Denver reported.
The tiny insect is being spread by a customer trying to preserve rare books, but ironically it’s because of his actions that the books now have to be destroyed.
“Some of the bed bugs fell out of those materials that had been returned,” said Denver Public Library spokeswoman Celeste Jackson.
The infected books came from 69-year-old Denver resident Roger Goffeney. He checks out historic books, some 200 years old, and helps archive them online in an effort called the Gutenberg Project.
Bullshit
Bedbugs are easy to kill, an organophosphate would have solved the problem. Heck heating the books to 120F and holding them there for three minutes would have killed them.