That is the hilarious moment bar staff laugh off a machete-wielding robber, believing his attempted raid to be a prank.
Certainly one of the waiters even grabs the machete in his hands and jokes with the thief that it was fake after he burst in waving the knife, shouting ‘give me the cash now’.
Believing the thief diguised in a helmet to be an everyday customer, the employees at La Barraca de la Abuela in Malaga were relaxed and broke into laughter, ignoring the would-be criminal’s demands.
CCTV shows the moment he pulls out a gun, bangs on the counter, and demands they take him seriously.
But staff fail to understand the gravity of the situation and reply through tears of laughter: ‘The cash now? Should we call the police?’
One waiter even inspected the blade and mocked the marauder telling him through a smile that it was clearly ‘nicked’.
In response to Spanish paper SUR, even after he held the blade as much as someone’s neck they didn’t think they were in peril and were convinced that the thief was a part of the joke.
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It was only after the thief left confused and empty-handed that they realised the robbery was real and he had struck many other bars within the Las Lagunas area of the party city.
One other employee on the bar said in a social media post: ‘Apparently he has held up other places.
‘When he got here to the bar the shopper and my colleague thought it was a joke they usually laughed at him not knowing he was really aspiring to rob them.
‘This man has now been arrested because he went to a different place and had a fight they usually detained him.’
He went on to inform an area paper: ‘We didn’t report it to the police initially because we didn’t think it was a real hold-up.
‘Hours later though we discovered it wasn’t a joke after we came upon about one other similar robbery at a close-by hamburger joint where he did make off with money.’
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