A surveillance camera captured the initial exchange, an armed robbery in New Orleans went awry for a shotgun-wielding man Saturday morning when his intended victim grabbed the gun away, and chased him down the block.  The would-be victim told cops it actually got even stranger. The New Orleans Police Department says the butterfingered gunman and an accomplice driving in a black sedan approached their would-be victim again, with the one-time gunman pleading, "Give me my gun back and I'll give you your phone that you dropped."

In response, the victim used the shotgun to smash their back window, and the robbers sped away. They remain at large, and are wanted for similar -- albeit successful -- previous robberies on that same corner.

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