Gigi's Cupcakes In Denver Robbed By Man With Syringe Allegedly Full Of AIDS-Infected Blood

Gigi's, A Denver cupcake shop, was held up Monday morning by a syringe-wielding robber. The robber claimed his syringe was full of AIDS-infected blood and would infect the cashier if she didn't comply, reports the AP.

Despite having a potentially-lethal syringe next to her body, the cashier was calm-headed enough to say she didn't know how to open the register -- an excuse to go alert other employees in the back.

Owner Carrie Bach told Westword the syringe was "actually more frightening" than a gun. Bach also noted the deeper issue is homelessness and drug addiction -- her experience was a symptom of both.

"We have never had a robbery case where someone was threatened with bodily fluids," Denver Police Spokesman Sonny Jackson told 7News. "To use bodily fluids in this manner, I have not seen that."

We wish we could say this was the first time a hyperbolic AIDS threat has been a means of coercion, but it isn't: In June, an elderly woman robbed a Colorado bank after passing a note threatening to infect the teller with AIDS.

Comments

[angellover97]

04:19 PM on 07/27/2011

oh sick

[Jerry Villano]

04:01 PM on 07/27/2011

who the heck robs a cupcake store!....Dillinger, Jesse James, Butch & Sundance are all laughing their behinds off!! when caught..what is he going to tell his fellow prisoners.

[Matthew Tomecko]

03:25 PM on 07/27/2011

this sounds like a horrible premise for a movie

[qud]

02:41 PM on 07/27/2011

Hey, I lived in S Africa for a long time. This "methodology" was used a long time ago already. Nothing new. Sick and scary. Luckily never happened to me, but I guess I would probably also be more afraid of the syringe than a gun.

[rocknhula]

02:10 PM on 07/27/2011

Hey a better plot is to inject it into a jeely donut and then extort money in return for telling them which one it is.

[qud]

02:38 PM on 07/27/2011

LOL. I like you imagination....SIC

[rocknhula]

06:15 PM on 07/27/2011

Even sicker~ would be aids infected sperms. That could ruin the jelly donut business.

[mivogo]

05:47 PM on 07/27/2011

Would that make it more or less healthy?

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[weestimate]

02:02 PM on 07/27/2011

He wouldn't even think about a donut shop...

[Schmice]

02:34 PM on 07/27/2011

LOL

[quadrant5]

01:45 PM on 07/27/2011

He is a member of Obama's warefare state

[dewlady357]

01:25 PM on 07/27/2011

Hmmmm ok, I understand liquor stores and quick rip (7-ll's, etc) being robbed..they are easy marks..but a cupcake shop? Thats almost funny. "We don't have any money...but here, have a cupcake." OMG I've been blogging too much..I'm starting to scare myself. LOL

[sidecarman]

01:14 PM on 07/27/2011

this is what people who have aids have to resort to for help. and the gop baggers want to cut benefits to the poor. this robbery is the total fault of the gop.

[sebrugger]

02:58 PM on 07/27/2011

And how do you know he wasn't a member of the GOP? You're ridiculous.

[Mactan99]

12:39 PM on 07/27/2011

Did he demand yellow cake or chocolate, or cream-filled, inquiring minds want to know! Oh, you mean he wanted money, silly me. Stupid to risk prison for what, $30 or so.

[Vicky Lupo McDonald]

12:34 PM on 07/27/2011

Sometimes laughter is the best medicine! Be well Frfredt!

[vcrozas]

12:34 PM on 07/27/2011

HIV - AIDS one of the fastest growing problems in the Senior Citizen community. Seniors not fearing pregnancy and feeling liberated have not been using condoms. They also have tended to think that as they have not been promiscuous they are not susceptible to AIDS - HIV. Surgeries and having had blood transfusions makes possiblity of getting this disease. BUT all the talk about gays and aids....don't forget the hemophiliacs, drug users, promiscuous heterosexuals all have equal oppurtunity to get this disease.

[ectullis]

12:29 PM on 07/27/2011

A cupcake robbing a cupcake shop? How quaint.

[jerzyboy349]

01:54 PM on 07/27/2011

All whipped cream and no substance.

[csmccain]

12:52 PM on 07/27/2011

What a bigoted comment, especially from someone that I suppose claims to be christian with your cross prominently showing. Your comment is so 1980's, still thinking that HIV is or was transmitted from just one community. Educate yourself. HIV has never been just in the community that you have chosed to demonize. It got it's foot in the door in the HETROSEXUAL community in Africa where it is still spread virtually unchecked because men refuse to put on a condom. The same hold true for the U.S. mainly in the black community. As for the gay community, the spread of HIV was brought virtually to a halt due to education and protecting others by using protection. Your ignorance and hatred is showing big time. But I'm sure you could care less. So you self proclaiming bible thumper, what would Jesus have said? Your and idiot.

[ArchieBunker II]

01:03 PM on 07/27/2011

Who died and made you God?

[thomasva6]

01:13 PM on 07/27/2011

before i read the article i thought the gay robber was stealing cupcakes and wanted to stick them somewhere.

[ArchieBunker II]

01:06 PM on 07/27/2011

So they have AIDS parades now? I've seen the Thanksgiving,New Years Day,Memorial Day and the Gay parade, haven't heard of that one, till now.

[petpetdonna]

11:38 AM on 07/27/2011

If the robber is caught, he should be shot with the infected blood. Now that's a death penalty.