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bberin t1_ja4g8db wrote

Reply to comment by 10698 in Man the Bowtie is really speed running shutting down at this point. by fannypax

That’s wild. My husband and I go to bow tie 2-3 times/month between March and September and have somehow managed to avoid them, but it sounds like we may be living on borrowed time

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10000Didgeridoos t1_ja6mq4k wrote

If it was a truly common occurrence, it would be shut down by the DoH immediately until fixed.

It's not common. Thousands of people go there daily and bed bugs aren't a thing. Any place you ever go with shared seating with the public and rapid turnover is liable to have them get on someone eventually. All it takes is the person before you having them, leaving one or two on the seat, and then they hop on you when you go to the next movie time 30 minutes later. They can't visually inspect and bug bomb movie theater seats in between shows.

I swear this is some dumb urban legend that started because it happened to one or two people once at some point in the last decade, and then just has been retold so many times people think it's happening all the time. There is no large entertainment venue anywhere that would get away with a literal bed bug infestation, especially for fucking years on end.

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Court_of_Appeals t1_ja7nd5z wrote

I don’t totally disagree but when we called Dodson to come treat us after our run in there, they said they used to have a running contract at bowtie for treating them and then management changed and it stopped. Sooooo idk man.

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choicebutts t1_jab38h3 wrote

It's been discussed in the last few years, it's not an old urban legend. I googled and found three references to bed bugs and Movieland here, in 2019, 2021, and 2022. Richmond is known for having a serious bed bug problem.

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