They may not carry the threat of immediate death that a gun or knife would, but nonetheless they are the words every bank employee most dreads hearing uttered by a cloaked stranger on the other side of the money trench. Dont anybody move: Ive got a retrovirus. What choice does a teller have but to comply?
It was this terror that prompted a Longmont, Colorado bank teller to do precisely as she was told when a woman approached the tellers wicket and slipped her a note claiming she had AIDS.
She indicated she would give it to the teller if she didnt co-operate, explained a Longmont Police spokesman. To support her claim, the suspect repeatedly coughed into a handkerchief. No weapon was shown and the perp offered no clarification on how shed get the HIV into the teller should she try anything funny. Blind with fear, the teller handed over a bag containing an unspecified amount of money and the woman fled.
Police are looking for a woman between the ages of 55 and 75, 5-foot-6 and between 130 and 140 pounds, who may or may not be sick and was described as being bony and pale.
SCOTT SAXON
