Nanny state, take... I've lost count.

[kickaha]

We live in an apartment building with 5 units.

We have seen evidence of a few carpet beetles.

We would like to apply a mild pesticide around the molding on the floor to 'discourage' them from coming out of the walls. (If they're in the walls, I don't care - it's only when they come out and eat my things that I care.)

Dry pesticides won't stay as a barrier around the cracks in the molding.

I haven't been able to find a pet-friendly dry pesticide.

Liquid pesticides will, as they dry to form a nice little barrier (of a mild sort, but that's okay, that's all we're looking for.)

Got all that? Reasonable so far? Mild bug evidence, want a mild liquid pesticide that is pet-friendly to just discourage them from coming out of the walls. Nice, easy, simple, right?


NY doesn't think so. We are banned from applying *any* liquid pesticides in our own apartment because a) there are more than 2 units in the dwelling, and b) we don't own it.

To do this, we need a pest-control license.


&$%*(@#&*(%^&*@($&*()@$@#$#!


You know, I can even see the mental processes that led to this, and up to a point, in certain situations, they could even be rational. But this sort of "OH NOES!" blanket ban is so *fricking* typical up here, and of course the response to problems caused is... more legislation, licensing, and oversight. Oh, and of course more license fees, inspection fees, exam fees...

I swear to god, it's almost enough to make me vote Republican. If the NE is the spiritual heart of the Democratic Party, it is in serious need of a transplant, stat.

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[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

It's not the whole NE that's like that, just Mass and NY. I dunno about Vermont, but NH's close to Libertarian. 'Live free or die' etc etc. One of the big reasons I miss NH so much is because people leave you the fuck alone up there. I'd never heard of something as asinie as a housing association before I left NH. The concept of someone else telling you what you can and can't do with your own goddam house is one I'll never understand.

Anyway, I'll let you be the ranter here. :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Oh no, the more the merrier! :D

And, you're right, this is a phenomenon that seems to be concentrated in NY, NJ, MA, and, to a degree, western CT, from what I've seen. NH, VT and ME are getting hit with the fallout by geographical association, and actually, are places I probably wouldn't mind living, from what I've heard.

This place though... jeez.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I'm chafed because they can put up the region-specific signs, but they can't, oh, say, order products that satisfy that particular market. Pheremone-based traps? Nowhere to be found, not even for cockroaches. :P