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Human debugging method

by varshakale @ 2006-08-08 - 13:51:42

Poverty and rising cost of pesticides have evolved a novel method of debugging. Hotel owners along the highways in Bengal (India) have found a novel way to keep bedbugs away from their regular customers. Owners here recruit poor people who lie on each bed of hotel completely nude for half an hour; to let the bedbugs feed on their blood. Once the bugs are satiated, they do not bite the customers who use these beds to relax during the day. Once a bed is thus ‘debugged’, the human debugger shifts to another bed. He is paid two rupees (Rs. 45=1 dollar) for every bed he debugs that way.

What do you feel about it???
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PatriciaSLPatriciaSL [Member]
08/08/06 @ 14:07

That's ... eww... Not very worth it I think, why don't he use a buy spray or something? That'll be better~

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 14:50

They think they are costly. Human beings are more cheap then these sprays.

steinbergsteinberg [Member]
08/08/06 @ 14:08

I'm afraid the less well off people have to do the crap jobs where ever you are in the world.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 14:53

Their life worth less then pesticides dear.

steinbergsteinberg [Member]
08/08/06 @ 21:17

Yes, it does seem twisted.
I hope they dont end up ill.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 22:24

Then hundread other people can come forward and take their position.

shaz_the_prole [Visitor]

08/08/06 @ 14:12

Yet another example of the exploitation of the poorest members of society - is human life really cheaper than a can of pesticide???????

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 15:07

It is cheaper shaz in this part of the world.

deleted user [Visitor]

08/08/06 @ 14:15

Horrible. But spraying powerful pesticides on the beds doesn't sound like a great idea either - especially after the scandal about soft drinks in India.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 17:02

Yes but at what and whose costs?

That is horrible. No-one, no matter how "less well off people" are, no-one should have to undertake such degrading work. Prime example of cost above human dignity.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 17:09

Sure, but the people geting this work are happy as they can atleast feed their families through this income.
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Elli61Elli61 [Member]
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08/08/06 @ 19:52

Well, ok it sounds horrible to us, but maybe it isn't as bad as it sounds. It's a biological method (Remember:Pesticides are harming people and nature!), and very poor people (who perhaps wouldn't have any income otherwise) are being paid. Those people are NOT less worth than pesticides, they're actually doing much better work. Only thing is, they should earn at least the same amount of money as the price for pesticides. That would be totally fair. But since we're not living in a fair world...it maybe the lesser of two evils.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 22:22

If they earn, I mean, if they are given charges equal to pesicides, then why some hotel owner will employ them? Hotel owners are not using them for envionmental concerns, they are using human beings instead of pesticides as the former are cheaper. They just want to provide better facilities to their customers with lowest production costs. It is essentially cost cutting measure Elli.

Elli61Elli61 [Member]
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08/08/06 @ 22:32

Yes, I see that clearly, Varsha. Of course the owners of the hotels want to cut the costs, nothing more. Nevertheless, I guess those people who do the job would be unemployed and get nothing without that bad job?!? So what is better for them?
A bad job which is also poorly paid is better than no job and no money, they will probably say!
Lots of greetings!
Elli

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/08/06 @ 22:46

Surely Elli. More often people have to choose only between degraded (not a right word though)life and death.

ramachandramenonramachandramenon [Member]
08/09/06 @ 08:23

There are several ways of debugging without any cost. The hotel owners need not spend even that Rs.2/-. Let them put the beds in the hot sun during the day time. All the bugs will just die. They cannot bear the heat of the sun. If they sun dry the beds regularly, the bugs will go away and the can save their customes from the agony of bedbugs.

varshakalevarshakale [Member]
08/09/06 @ 10:22

First thing the beds are used in a day and if they have to dry it in day time, then they have to purchase and maintain two sets of cots.
Secondly as it is rainy season, it is difficult to find sun and dry cots.

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