Over-enthusiastic amateur ant exterminator ruined house with too many poison bombs

A German couple who called a pest exterminator to kill ants in their new house are looking for somewhere new to live after the man used too many poison bombs and contaminated their home so badly it has been torn down.

The couple named only as Lars and Patricia K. were so annoyed by an infestation of ants in their nice, new house in Burscheid near Cologne that they called a pest exterminator to get rid of them. But unluckily for them, the man they employed was an over-enthusiastic amateur.


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"He put smoke bombs around the house and used hundreds of times the permitted dosage," a witness said. And when the couple returned home 24 hours later with their two-year-old son they were devastated to see what had happened. "The wallpaper had come off and all the pictures had fallen off the walls," they said.

The place stank strongly of chemicals and was obviously uninhabitable. An environmental auditor was called out, and said the highly concentrated poison had gone deep into the walls and could not be removed. The house, which had only been built two years ago, was so contaminated it was demolished on Wednesday, but the cellar has been left in place for further investigation in case the ground under the house is also contaminated.