Court Forced To Close Early After Bedbugs Fall Off Lawyer's Clothing

A courthouse in Oklahoma was forced to close for the day after a lawyer showed up covered in bed bugs. Officials at Rogers County courthouse met and decided to cancel the remaining cases and send everybody home until exterminators could clean out the 9,000 square foot building.The head of security for the Rogers County Courthouse, Mike Clarke told KMTV that the lawyer was acting very nonchalant about the situation.

"I don't even think he cared," Clarke said.

The unidentified lawyer even shook his bed bug infested jacket over the files of one of the prosecutors according to Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton.

"Hard to imagine someone doesn't know, you know that some bed bugs are crawling all over them certainly in abundance," Walton said.

The courthouse reopened the following day and workers posted a sign at the main entrance advising people to check themselves and their homes for bed bugs. Officials have not said if the lawyer will be responsible for footing the exterminator's bill or when the scheduled cases will be made up.

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