Three masked men who tried to rob a Chinese restaurant in Massachusetts ran away empty-handed because they could not work out how to open the cash register.
The men, one of whom had a gun, entered the Peking House restaurant in Springfield and one of the staff saw the gun, ran out and called police.
But although officers searched the area they could not find the suspects.
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