What Caliber Is That Finger?

Bad place for a stick-up:

A robbery at a Git-N-Go Convenience Store on the south side of Des Moines on Thursday morning was called off for lack of convincing theatrics.

"Well, I could tell he didn't have a gun," said Terry Cook, a clerk at the store... "I knew it was his finger. I could see his thumb sticking out of his coat pocket."

The would-be robber...wanted to argue.

It is a gun, he told Cook.

No it isn't, Cook said.

It seems finger boy got away, which is just as well. He's too stupid even for StupidPrison™.

The frustrated suspect left the store but paused a moment in the parking lot, perhaps to go over in his mind the argument he'd just lost. He disappeared just before police arrived.

Perhaps he was looking for his imaginary get-away car.