Ky School Officials Say Bedbugs At School A Hoax

AUGUSTA, Ky. -- Augusta Independent School Principal Robin Kelsch had enough to worry about with the flu. Kelsch didn't need a student's report of bedbugs at the school to make things worse.

But, that's what he got.

Kelsch said the rumor started when a student brought in a water bug and squashed it, then told her friends it was a bedbug "just to scare them."

Kelsch said officials checked the school, then bleached and cleaned it and found "absolutely no" bedbugs.

As far as can be determined, Kelsch said, no one used the bedbug rumor as an excuse to skip school.

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Comments

[rockysparks]

10:35 AM on 02/14/2012

There are no bedbugs in Kentucky. We elect them to the U.S. Senate and send them to Washington ...

[grifrn]

10:29 AM on 02/14/2012

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[Tim Kunk]

08:52 PM on 02/13/2012

Who ever is in charge of Weird news, Is being over paid. It might not be the High prestige post at huffy po. There is a wrong way to do it, and you are.

[adika3z]

08:39 PM on 02/13/2012

this picture is a ROACH and not a bedbug,
bedbug is so small insect than roach

[duh]

07:45 PM on 02/13/2012

This is some of the lamest "weird" news seen anywhere.