A Kentucky Fried Chicken cashier heroically thwarted a hangry would-be robber when the customer pulled a gun after his card was rejected, police in East Hartford, Conn., said Tuesday.
The man, his face entirely obscured by a mask, strode into the KFC at 300 Burnside Ave. in East Hartford at about 8:30 p.m. Monday and ordered a two-piece chicken meal, the East Hartford Police Department told local news outlets.
He swiped his phone to pay with his credit card, but it was declined — twice. The man then “exchanged words with the employee” and skulked inside the fast-food joint for a little while before heading outside to lurk, Officer Marc Caruso told the Journal-Inquirer.
A little while later he came back inside, whipped out a gun, and told the cashier to empty the register. But the employee was having none of it and refused to comply, police said. Instead he wrested the gun from his potential assailant, and the burglar fled on foot.
Somewhere in there a holdup alarm was activated and cops descended, but the man had already disappeared when they got there. A K-9 unit traced him back to a house on Tolland Street, but nobody was home, police said.
The employee was uninjured, and police were still investigating on Tuesday.
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