When your mother said you should call her more, this wasn't what she meant. Zachariah Dalton Howard, 22, tried to rob a convenience store in Niceville, Florida, then phoned his mother for a ride home. Howard walked into Thumbs Up Convenience Store and told an employee that he had a gun, though he didn't actually produce one. However, the clerk showed him an empty cash register drawer, and Howard left the store and called his mom to pick him up. He told authorities that the attempted robbery wasn't premeditated, and that he just came up with the idea while walking to the store. He also said he did not really have any weapons with him. More