Don't robbers have guns anymore?

Yesterday, we reported how a man in Fayetteville, NC, tried to rob a lingerie store using a "bomb" rigged out of Play-Doh. Now comes word from West Virginia of a man trying to rob a video store with an empty Jello box.

Police say Paul E. Parrish II, 43, walked into the Charleston, WV, store, set the box on the counter and told an employee that it was a bomb. He demanded money or the bomb would be detonated by remote control. The clerk refused.

Officers said they later arrested Parrish, who confessed that he tried the robbery because he needed money for gas and cigarettes. As one officer said, "It was really kind of silly. I don't know what the heck he was thinking."

Full story here.