A New Zealand casino carpet, fed up with people spilling free drinks and worse all over it, has gone vigilante. Well, if you wanted to anthropomorphize a garish pattern of color and shapes, that’s what you’d say. The real story? In addition to being touhg to look at, it’s also a quite hospitable home for fleas. From News24:
Staff at a New Zealand casino are wearing flea collars designed for cats and dogs around their ankles to combat an infestation of the pests in the carpet, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
“It’s really, really horrible,” one worker told the Herald on Sunday.
“It’s a really big problem, especially if you’re allergic to things like that. I have brought fleas home, and they’ve infested the bedroom and bottom floor of my house. They get into my socks at work, everywhere.”
The paper said the fleas apparently loved the warmth of the casino’s carpet and the heat generated by gaming machines for breeding grounds.
A spokesperson said that the Sky City casino in Auckland had an active pest management programme to deal with flea infestations, and had not been made aware of any recent problems.
Casino staff wear flea collars: Entertainment: Offbeat: News24
My friends in casino security know that fleas–not the insect kind–are a problem in many casinos.