Well, the robber actually asked for the “Muslim” part, but it was quite a story. Today on Studio B, Shepard Smith had the store owner, Mohammad Sohail, on the show to tell the story.

Here’s how it goes: Robber enters store with baseball bat. Store owner pulls shotgun on robber. Robber drops to his knees and cries like a baby, begging store owner not to shoot him or call the cops. Store owner listens to sob story about a lost job, no money and a hungry family, gives robber $40 cash and some bread. Robber says “I want to be a Muslim just like you.” Store owner says basically ‘are you kidding me? You want to be a Muslim?’ So robber takes some Islamic vow, promises not to rob anyone else and runs from the store when the store owner goes to get some milk to go with the bread.

Moral of the story? If you’re a TV anchor DON’T announce to the viewing public that the store owner’s gun never has any ammo! Thanks a pant-load, Shep. Now he’s probably going to get robbed by the thug again!