Lawsuit: Woman forced to cut dreadlocks after bedbugs found in hotel room

[UrbScotty]

An assistant tennis coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Donna Brumfield, and her group checked into the Palatine Holiday Inn Express in October 2012 for a tennis meet.

She ended up meeting bedbugs, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. Before the ensuing ordeal ended, Brumfield was forced to chop off her cherished, waist-length dreadlocks she had grown for 13 years, the lawsuit alleges.

“If you know how long it takes to grow dreadlocks, you understand the trauma of losing my hair,” says Brumfield, of the south suburbs, who is in her 50’s.

“Harder to explain is the trauma that affects travel for me now. I travel a lot for my work, and every time I have to stay at a hotel I just get filled with anxiety,” she said.

http://www.suntimes.com/25139583-761/lawsuit-woman-forced-to-cut-dreadlocks-after-bedbugs-found-in-hotel-room.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Ewwwwwww