Masked Robbers Flee as Motel Holdup Bombs
Associated Press
BELLEVILLE, Ill. —
Two gun-toting masked men ran away empty-handed when demands for money only got them laughs.
“We didn’t pay any attention to them. I thought someone was joking around. We laughed at them,” said Marge Oustio, manager of the Town House Motel.
The two men, carrying revolvers and wearing stockings over their faces, walked into the lobby late Tuesday and demanded money, she said. But they apparently were taken aback by employees who laughed at them, and they ran when a guest walked into the lobby from a restroom.
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