This is definitely a twist on the old "a former employee tries to rob the place" story.

Last Tuesday, a guy wearing a mask busted into a pizza shop in Barre, Massachusetts carrying a gun. He hopped over the counter and tried to force one of the employees to open the register, until some other employees tackled him.

When they took off his mask, they found out it was their former boss, who was fired last summer. He would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

He's 30-year-old Sean Coulson and he tried to play it off as a joke. He even admitted his gun was fake, but it obviously wasn't actually a joke. He was arrested for armed robbery and assault.

Read more at WCVB.

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