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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:01:49 -0700
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
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To: ray.smith@co.humboldt.ca.us
Subject: 137 12th Street, Fortuna: Baby Cockroaches
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Ray,

I just found a baby cockroach in my bathroom. I bagged it and preserved 
it in the freezer for ID by the County Department of Agriculture, next 
time I am up that way.

Now, I realize cockroaches are epidemic. They are everywhere. They are, 
well, like cockroaches.

And yet ... the exterminator had an appointment to come to the apartment 
complex two weeks ago. He never showed up.

I asked the apartment manager, in writing, why the exterminator had 
never showed up. She refuses to answer. I've asked, a few times, now. I 
think she is avoiding creating any sort of a paper trail. Which seems 
criminal, to me.

Presumably where there is ONE baby cockroach, there are 999 others 
behind the walls, and in the crevices.

Could you please start thinking about condemning these apartments?

Please?

In the name of public health?

I'm not interested in being poisoned. That's not the solution. It's not 
preventing anything. These people aren't interested in preventative or 
curative measures - they are focused on perception management and 
superficial, lowest-bidder measures that don't actually correct anything.

They really need a wake-up call.

They don't think they have a duty to provide clean, safe, insect-free 
housing. Not even screens on the windows.

Maybe if one of these buildings was condemned the owners would 
straighten up and fly right - to prevent the others from being 
condemned, next.


Regards,

~richard