World AIDS Bagel Breakfast Disrupted At GAP by Giant Human Bagel Activists

How could we have missed this breaking story? Well, it was breaking last week, anyway.

Several protesters dressed as giant bagels were arrested last week at Mayor Bloomberg's Annual AIDS Bagel Breakfast at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Now, I'm not entirely sure what bagels have to do with AIDS. And I'm not entirely sure what dressing up as a giant bagel has to do with homelessness but here's the whole "schmear" (oy!) from the Brooklyn Paper:

A “schmear campaign” against Mayor Bloomberg’s World Aids Day Bagel breakfast at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library got unexpectedly sticky on Wednesday morning as cops bagged nine unruly protestors who donned bagel costumes and laid down in traffic in the middle of Grand Army Plaza. 

Each year Bloomberg holds a bagel breakfast on World AIDS Day to re-commit himself to the fight against AIDS in New York City, then proposes budgets that cut services to low income New Yorkers suffering from the disease, said (Housing Works CEO Charles) King, who was dressed up like a sesame seed bagel.

Apparently, the bagel costumes were not designed for handcuffs so the cops had to call for reinforcements to help hoist protesters back onto their feet.