Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Witnesses to a Springfield, Ill., attempted robbery say the two 15-year-old girls who tried to hold up the store made a multitude of errors. The owner of House of Gifts said the two girls -- one armed with a BB gun that resembled a .45-caliber automatic pistol and one armed with a dagger -- had come into the store multiple times in the week leading up to the incident and one had come in before the robbery in season-appropriate clothing before both girls later entered in sweat shirts, the Springfield State Journal-Register reported Tuesday. Advertisement Store owner Akram Hindieh said the sweat shirts weren't the only unusual choice the would-be robbers made -- they also chose to hold up the store at noon on a weekday, when the store is at its busiest; haggled with Hindieh over how much money they wanted him to fork over, and allowed customers to walk out of the store and dial authorities in their cell phones. Additionally, the two girls gave up robbing the register in favor of stealing merchandise, forcing them to leave empty handed. Police arrested the pair nearby the store. Advertisement
