NY Man Demonstrates How Not to Get Rid of Bedbugs

Someone told Scott Kemery that if you saturate bedbugs with alcohol, they'll die. Nobody, apparently, told Scott Kemery that you shouldn't light a cigarette after soaking the inside of your bedbug-infested car with alcohol, while still sitting in the car. Result: the 44-year-old Long Island man suffered first- and second-degree burns, destroyed his rental car, and damaged two other vehicles, reports Newsday. But he did, presumably, get rid of the bedbugs. (More bedbugs stories.)