It was almost four in the morning on Sunday when police responded to a suspected armed robbery at a grocery store on 15th Avenue East. Two men allegedly waltzed into the store adorned in T-shirts, medical masks, and hoodies so nothing was exposed but their eyes. They headed toward the liquor aisle. Apparently unimpressed by the selection, they turned around and headed for the register, where they allegedly informed the clerk he was being robbed. One of them "lifted his shirt up and exposed a handgun that was tucked into his waistband," a Seattle police report alleges.

Meanwhile, an undoubtedly sleepy customer "entered the store from the south entrance and walked to the freezer section." The store clerk gestured for her to leave, but surmised that she was "unaware of what was going on," the clerk told police.

The suspected robbers went from cash register to cash register, dumping the contents of each till into a pillowcase. The suspects eventually made their way to the cigarette section. They allegedly demanded a carton of Camel cigarettes to accompany their pillowcase full of cash, then ran out of the store.

The oblivious, frozen-food-desiring shopper later told police that she had no idea there had been a robbery unfolding until after the suspects had fled the scene.

The store's video surveillance confirms the store clerk's story. The suspects wore gloves, so there were no fingerprints. The K9 unit's search came up dry. A video camera outside the store barely missed one of the suspect's masks slipping off his face, and no one has been arrested.