Thief robs store with syringe filled with "AIDS-infected blood"

[nynco]

What if he threatened to stab the Rare Earth Metal market bubble?

You think there is a rare earth market bubble?

sorry could not resist.... interesting to me.

[blacklabel]

Too many alternatives. I'd just pull my shirt up over my head and hum Amazing Grace as loud as I could until the situation resolved itself.

Has Box O' Truth tested this? How many water jugs did it go through?

[DeusExMachina]

Has Box O' Truth tested this? How many water jugs did it go through?

I've heard him sing...mirrors, water jugs...nothing is safe.

[mcantar18c]

What if he was threatening to stab your dog?
Shoot if possible (early morning hours, dark, remote area, and so on). If I can't shoot, give him whatever he wanted, then once he gave me my dog, make him wish I did.
What if he threatened to stab an illegal Mexican?
Assuming I knew for an absolute fact they were an illegal... nothing.
What if he threatened to stab the Rare Earth Metal market bubble?
Nothing. Unless his syringe is made of Unobtanium, it cannot penetrate the bubble.
Too many alternatives. I'd just pull my shirt up over my head and hum Amazing Grace as loud as I could until the situation resolved itself.

[Irving]

You think there is a rare earth market bubble?

sorry could not resist.... interesting to me.

Nope, it popped a few months ago. I bought my stock at $3.01 a share sometime in 2010. It immediately dropped to $1.00 a share. Over the course of the rest of 2010 and 2011, it shot up to $10.00 a share and I sold it at $9 a share. It has been hovering at $6.xx for a few months now.

[Bailey Guns]

AIDS Infected Blood: 0
Lead Infected Bullet: 1

[sbouslog]

Nope, it popped a few months ago. I bought my stock at $3.01 a share sometime in 2010. It immediately dropped to $1.00 a share. Over the course of the rest of 2010 and 2011, it shot up to $10.00 a share and I sold it at $9 a share. It has been hovering at $6.xx for a few months now.

I kmow that you aren't talking about gold. Are you talking about Palladium (PAL)?

[Ranger]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Deus, do you often read your DENVER news from a UK website?

AIDS Infected Blood: 0
Lead Infected Bullet: 1

I like this answer best!

[n8tive97]

I would handle it the way we do in America these days.
RULES FOR CONFRONTING A THREAT WITH A SYRINGE:
1. Politely ask him to put a rubber on it first
2. Try to figure out what happened in his childhood to cause this
3. Request tax payer funds to do research on people who threaten other people with syringes that are full of AIDS infected blood
4. Hold Supreme Court hearings to label these people with some sort of mental disability/handicap and get them free food/medical benefits and be forced to interview them before anyone else for a job
5. If all that fails I would draw my weapon on paper and make sure he knew what the consequences were

If none of that worked or you run out of time, pull your weapon out.

Just trying to keep us all out of jail, consider this a public service announcement!

[hollohas]

Nope, it popped a few months ago. I bought my stock at $3.01 a share sometime in 2010. It immediately dropped to $1.00 a share. Over the course of the rest of 2010 and 2011, it shot up to $10.00 a share and I sold it at $9 a share. It has been hovering at $6.xx for a few months now.

Might be going up again...

June 28, 2011
By now you may have seen the numerous articles and industry communications regarding how
the scarcity of Rare Earth oxides combined with the hyper-inflation of prices, is having a serious
adverse impact on the lighting industry. Since our May 23, 2011 price increase announcement,

China has dramatically reduced the amount of rare earth oxides available for export and the cost
continues to increase beyond our ability to compensate.
The lighting industry consumes less than 10% of the Chinese export quota for these oxides,
putting the lighting manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage as the supply of these materials
shrinks. Even when it is possible to obtain the oxides, the costs have continued to skyrocket in
recent weeks.

Oxidized Minerals (Rare Earth Oxides), represent an important input towards producing energy
efficient fluorescent lamps. As a result of the escalating supply and demand pressures for REO’s ,
prices for these obscure elements (China supplies > 95%) have risen dramatically within the last 12
months and continue to show signs of continued escalation into the future.

PS - I work in the lighting industry and we're looking at a likely 50% increase and in the cost of fluorescent lamps as well as shortages in the next 6 months.