That’s Not Cool: The Supercuts HIV Needle Thief
Hey everybody, this is Robert Cox: Robert is what the police usually call a “piece of shit.” Rob is kind of a junkie, and like junkies do, sometimes he’ll steal or rob to support his habit and imagined “edgy” Stone Temple Pilots lifestyle. Rob’s thing these days is traversing the mall-ish suburban terrain and wandering into whatever Supercuts or Saladworks or whathaveyou that catches his eye, and then robbing them by pointing a hypodermic needle at the cashier, telling them he has HIV, and demanding the contents of the register, or else. This is so not cool that we just had to make a new post category called “That’s Not Cool.” Obviously, robbing podunk suburban chain stores is uncool, and threatening to jab somebody up with an HIV-infected needle is so uncool that “uncool” doesn’t even cover it. (Not for nothing, he’s also fueling AIDS hysteria with a crime like this, too, and that, again, is not very fucking cool.) Anyway, this is Rob. Rob, this is everybody. And we’d all like to tell you this now: That’s not cool.
January 29th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
That’s so ’90s. He could at least use swine flu.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:01 am
they caught this guy today.
i was going to write a comment about this waaaaaaaaaay a long time ago during the septa strike… but for whatever reason, i didn’t… distant past. anyway, i was on the el when a guy did this same thing. i had seen him just about every day for a month or so before. usually, all he did was ask for money, but then one day, he snapped. he yelled that if someone didn’t start helping him, he’d have to use his HIV infected needles to get money from someone. he tried to kick out the door, broke it, we all had to leave the train and wait for another one… i don’t think that it was this guy though, although they do look very similar.