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#Bus #Graffiti #Metro #Subway #Upholstery #LosAngelesMetro When a bedbug crawled off the Metro subway seat and onto his shorts, Chris Rusak realized that the brightly patterned fabric could camouflage a lot more than dirt. With a shiver of horror, Rusak flicked the bug off and jumped to his feet in the subway car. After blurting several unprintable epithets, he vowed to never sit down on the Metro again. “And I haven’t,” said Rusak, 39, a perfume designer and visual artist who lives near MacArthur Park. “Sometimes you’re tired, or you don't feel good, and you just want to sit down. But you know what? It isn’t worth it.” For decades, Metro’s fuzzy fabric seats — rare among major U.S. transit systems — have drawn fascination and disgust from bus and train riders. Novice passengers learn quickly, and often the hard way, to check seats for liquids before sitting down, and to avoid the one unoccupied seat in a crowded car. But not for much longer. Propelled by years