When I was younger, whenever anyone got too many bugs in their house, they would use a “bug bomb”. They still exist, but I think they try to call them “foggers” now. But if you look on the internet, many places and people still call them “bug bombs”. I’ll bet this makes things difficult for Homeland Security.
So, say someone who has dogs or cats gets a flea infestation, and they tell someone they know that they’re going to bomb the house. What would NSA and DHS think of that? Would some guy in a black suit and mirror sunglasses follow that person around for weeks or months? And with all the bedbug stuff going on in New York City, many buildings have to be fumigated. So what if you get them in your office or store, and then you were heard to say you were planning on bombing the office building or the store? Wouldn’t this make you seem suspicious? And then, wouldn’t agents have to be scrambled to investigate? I have to wonder how many times this has happened.
And remember those old ads for Raid (the insecticide) where some cartoon bug starts making itself at home in someone’s house, and then they get sprayed with Raid and they say: “Raid?!!!” and then they explode? Do insects use those ads to say that humans are anti-bug terrorists? Are they used as propaganda to recruit bug terrorists, saying that humans call them “insects” that must be “exterminated”? How come I never hear the government saying these are used as recruiting tools (like they say about Gitmo)?
Here’s a hilarious Raid commercial from 1969, where the bugs are shown to be like bikers (those outlaw biker movies were very big back then). Notice how the Raid becomes sticks of TNT with a detonator:
And here are a couple of other ones:
(This ad calls the bugs “the resistance”, so I guess they are recruiting bugs to fight back!)
