He was ‘doing it wrong’.
It didn’t help that he was a little guy, alone, dressed in baggy clothes, wearing a too big ballcap setting on his head like a bucket. Looked like somebody’s little brother. He kept moving around as though he himself was nervous or uncertain. He didn’t use his ‘outside voice’ not really, didn’t project over a minor yell.
Whatever he was holding didn’t indicate the point of a pistol or any weapon. He seemed to be carrying a bundle of ‘stuff’. No gravitas!
This kid needed to view a couple of Samuel L. Jackson
Hood Tutorials on YouTube. That’ll learn him.
Brings to mind Woody Allen’s Bank Robber in the movie;
Take The Money & Run. another attempted thief who got ;no respect’.
Did he have a gub?