Watch a bunch of jewelry robbers fail miserably

They tried, they failed.
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Brian Koerber
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A jewelry store in Malaysia shared security footage of a smash and grab gone wrong, and the internet is loving how bad the robbers look in the clip.

Kedai Emas Sri Alam jewelry store in Shah Alam, Malaysia, was robbed on Monday, but the wannabe thieves were ill prepared for the store's impressive fixtures.

In the clip, four thieves can be seen entering the store and smashing the jewelry cases with sledgehammers. Fortunately for the store, they decided to purchase expensive security glass, and the thieves had an extremely difficult time breaking through it to get to the gold and jewels.

The store posted multiple photos of the aftermath, showing full cases with cracked glass. It's unclear if the looters manages to get anything in the robbery, but the glass definitely diminished their takings.

Unfortunately, the robbers' attempt did cause severe damage to the store, and it announced on Facebook that it will be closed for two weeks for repairs.

The store also reports that there were no injuries in the robbery.

The video of the robbery attempt gained a lot of attention on Reddit, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the bad guys failing miserably at their jobs.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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