The thief came charging into the convenience store in Long Island shortly before closing armed with a baseball bat and demanded money, according to the security videotape broadcast Wednesday on US television.
As the store owner, Mohammad Sohail, pulled out a rifle - it wasn't even loaded - the would-be thief collapsed to his knees.
"He started begging," Mohammad Sohail, the store owner, told television crews. The thief said "I got no money, my family hungry," Sohail said.
Sohail gave the thief bread and $40. The masked thief said, "I want to be a Muslim just like you," Sohail told CNN.
Sohail performed a brief naming ceremony to declare him a Muslim, then gave him $40 and some bread.
But while he went to fetch a jug of milk, the man had vanished.
Sohail said he did not intend to press charges against the would-be thief.
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The store owner may be
The store owner may be generous and good in some way but he should still have the man arrested and have him investigated because he might be using the money for drugs or something bad. We'll just hope that the robber will not do this again and if he does, we will just hope that he is not with a gun already.
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