Adult toy store employees fight off armed robber by throwing dildos at him

Well, it worked.

Here's something you don't see everyday.

When a man came to rob adult toy store Lotions & Lace in San Bernadino, California, two female employees thwarted his attempted attack by hitting him with a bunch of dildos. (You read that correctly).

The man, with his face covered, walked into the store just before close around 9:45 pm. He pointed what appeared to be a gun at the two women behind the counter, and they quickly decided they were having absolutely none of it.

Behold, the surveillance video.

"With the gun, he walked in. I just thought he was trying to be funny, to scare us," one store associate, who KABC-7 is calling Amy, told the news organization, "But then I saw the gun and it was like, 'Really? I don't have time for this.'"

Amy bravely began yelling at the attacker - but after he grabbed her arm, the second resourceful employee took security into her own hands and fired off the adult toys stored around the counter.

“I think he was a coward,” the ingenious employee told KABC7, “Coming in and trying to get over on two females and not realizing that we're pretty feisty.”

Brave ladies (and sex toys), we salute you.

Topics Sex Toys

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