"It used to be a vampire looked in you in the eyes before he stole your blood," truck driver Alex Hannigan says, "Now it's so impersonal."
The latest truck hijacking is particularly harmful to the community as it contained a supply of the rare AB Negative blood desperately needed by Children's Hospital for transplant surgeries.
Lisa Anderson, mother of one of the many sick children in the hospital, asks: "How do I explain to my daughter that she now might not make it till Christmas because some ancient demon possessing a stoic but good-looking young man suddenly got a conscience and needed a way to resist his eternal hunger? When you have kids you never think you have to explain the unfairness to the world like to this to them, but . . . I guess it just comes down to people not thinking about the consequences of their actions."
A local cheerleader at Abraham Lincoln High, Tiffany Lawrence, stands up for the local menace: "He saved my life last spring," she reasons, "I was about to be turned into one of those things when he appeared out of nowhere and turned them into dust. It's not like he's stealing from the kids directly. He just needs to eat."
The vampire in question could not be reached for comment as few witnesses ever report seeing more than a glimpse of him. Hannigan, the driver of the latest truck hijacked, reports: "After he pulled me out of the driver's seat, he just kind of stopped and stared up into the night sky, like he was contemplating the enormous weight on his shoulders. You ask me, it was all for effect." He pauses, remembering the moment. "Even his apology was rushed. I just didn't feel like he was really sorry. Seemed like he was patting himself on the back."
To date, the "good vampire" has saved two dozen citizens from monsters and supernatural threats. Well over a hundred people have died or suffered severe consequences from lack of proper blood donations.
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