Calif. man tries to steal gumball machine from animal shelter, fails miserably

A man in Sacramento is achieving internet infamy for all the wrong reasons.

Sacramento's Front Street Animal Shelter posted a video to Facebook that shows a "gumball bandit" breaking into the shelter and attempting to steal a gumball machine on Friday night.

The video begins with the man entering the animal shelter through a broken pane in a glass door and grabbing the gumball machine.

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Things quickly go downhill.

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The man accidentally shatters the glass on the top of the gumball machine, and hundreds of gumballs spill onto the floor. He then slips on the gumballs while trying to get the machine through the broken window pane, even though it clearly won't fit.

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This goes on for a while, until the man finds a different door to exit. Once he leaves the building, he throws the gumball machine over a barbed wire fence, which likely scraped up his prize.

The animal shelter put captions over the video, and concluded with "You almost feel bad for him, until you remember that he just stole from an animal shelter."