The Reel Life: Fake jewels edition

The Reel Life has never robbed a jewelry store to score extra cash for our online slots habit. But if we did, we'd make sure the jewels we took were actually real.

According to CBS Denver, two men who wore heavy clown makeup held up a jewelry store in Denver on Wednesday. Video shows the men roughing up employees and even pointing a gun at one of the store's owners.

The two robbers forced the owners to empty their jewelry cases into a garbage bag. They then fled the scene.

However, that stolen loot may turn out to be worth absolutely zip. The two owners of the store told CBS Denver that "because the price of the precious metals featured in their jewelry has gone up significantly, what customers see in their store — and in most jewelry stores — is usually an inexpensive sample of what is ordered from the designer. The owners said that what the robbers stole is basically worthless outside the store."

“A lot of (what was stolen) are samples that are done in silver and they are plated, and the robbers don’t know that,” one of the owners said. “You don’t want to get killed over anything, but especially if it’s not real.”

The two men are still at large, and probably extremely angry. Because if you're going to dress up in clown makeup and rob a jewelry store, there better be some sort of payoff at the end.

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