CHICAGO (WGN) — The scarecrows outside Mission Possible resale shop in Chicago's North Center neighborhood could not scare off a burglar.

“I got an alert from my phone at home from my security company and it said motion was detected so they called the police,” owner Janet Cullen said.

Cullen says it was just before midnight Sunday. When she and police arrived, her door was smashed.

“I’m a person of faith so in the moment I said either I can have a pity party, or I can be grateful, so I tried to think of things I was grateful for, including they didn’t ransack the store, we didn’t have any money in the store,” Cullen said.

Surveillance video shows a man in a light-colored ball cap going straight for the register, but he left with nothing. It appears he may have headed several blocks dow

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