Washington men try to rob cookie money from Girl Scouts at gun point

An armed robber in Tacoma, Washington attempted to rob Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside a Fred Meyer store, the News Tribune reports.

The attempted robbery happened Saturday night about 6:20 pm, Tacoma police spokeswoman Loretta Cool told the paper.

The would-be robbers were white men in their 20s who wore gray sweatshirts and khakis. They fled without either cookies or money.

“We are saddened and disheartened to share that there was an attempted robbery at a Girl Scout booth site in Tacoma this evening,” the Girl Scouts of Western Washington said in a statement Saturday night on their Facebook page. “We are grateful that no one was harmed, although of course they are shaken.”

"We are saddened and disheartened to share that there was an attempted robbery at a Girl Scout booth site in Tacoma this evening," the local chapter wrote on Facebook. "We are grateful that no one was harmed, although of course they are shaken."