Tonight it was King Comfort Mattress of Woodside, Queens who got their turn before the cameras, spray disinfectant bottles in both fists.
John Deutzman reported for Fox 5 on the Queens used mattress refurbisher.
Do I really have to tell you what happened here?
Interestingly, when tempers were restored, Deutzman got a tour of the facility and an explanation of their process. Cue the disinfectant bottles.
The report was especially good on the absurdity of a system where there is a used bedding law in our state but no sanitizing rules, the missing mattress sanitizing regulations we’ve discussed before.
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno told Deutzman that “we’re seeing big problems with bed bugs.”
On Deutzman’s accompanying blog post, he writes about Dr. Tierno’s recommendation for those “in a financial bind” to sleep on an inflatable mattress instead. We’ve heard this suggestion from a member of our group too. An inflatable mattress is indeed competitively priced with a filthy, bed bug infested “refurbished” mattress.
Of course filthy, bed bug infested mattresses are considered a right of the poor in this city.
Thanks to Paula for mentioning the story in the comments.
These pages may be of related interest:
- Dateline NBC revisits the reconditioned mattress story
- What would New York’s missing mattress sanitizing regs look like anyway?
- The copy/paste approach to writing mattress sanitizing regulations
- We are reviewing the new NYS Department of State proposed mattress sanitizing regs
- New Yorker founds Sweet Dreams, a mattress replacement charitable project
