Two individuals burst into a tobacconst in the small town of Belicena, armed with a pistol and demanded the contents of the till but...

The man with the gun decided to whip up some respect and fired his handgun into the ceiling. Although inititially inclinded to comply with the armed robbers, the owner noticed that there was no hole in the ceiling…

The two robbers followed the victims gaze and the crooks realised that the games was up – it was very obvious that the gun was a starter pistol loaded with blanks.

The owner turned on them and before he could get his hands on them they had fled the shop. Although the Guardia Civil based in nearby Santa Fe rushed to the scene of the incident, which took place at 08.30h yesterday morning, the robbers got clean away, unencumbered by booty and one blank bullet less.

Belicena, by the way, is about half way between Granada and the airport in a straight line.

(News: Belicena, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)