Hungry Bedbugs Attack Movie Theater Patrons In New York’s Times Square
A multiplex movie theater in New York City’s Times Square is so badly plagued by bedbugs that a major movie premiere has to be moved to another location. On Tuesday, the movie “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” was supposed to have its gala first showing in New York. However, last week moviegoers at the AMC Empire 25 complex on W. 42nd Street started to feel bites in the dark, and many saw the actual bedbugs. The theater had to close so that the pests can be wiped out.
The same theater was closed for a while in 2010 because of a bedbug problem. AMC gave one young woman a set of free passes in response to her complaint. Another young woman who was bitten, Cheryl Feng, took to Facebook to post numerous complaints that have been made, over the years, of mice and bedbugs in the Times Square AMC theater.
AMC management tried to do some damage control by reassuring its customers: “At AMC, we take aggressive, proactive steps, including regular inspections and inspections any time a bedbug is suspected. If any inspection comes back positive, the affected area is treated the same day…by pest control.”
