In a “plucky” caper reminiscent of the comedy, “The Apple Dumpling Gang,” featuring Tim Conway and Don Knotts as two bumbling outlaws, four people were charged in a failed attempt to fire a drug-filled crossbow arrow into the Fayette County jail.

The caper was foiled after the “sharpshooter” missed the target – a window covered with titanium mesh – and landed on the ground below.

Jail staff discovered the arrow June 6 near the southeast wall of the building. Police cut open the arrow to find cocaine-stuffed rubber gloves inside the shaft.

It would appear the accused archer and accomplices were foiled after investigators said they viewed multiple video calls with an inmate – all recorded by the jail – in which one of the four is seen cutting a rubber glove and stuffing it into an arrow shaft. Now, that’s comedy gold.

— Observer-Reporter, Washington, Pa.