Bar staff laughed in face of machete robber thinking he was ‘prankster neighbour’

What a helmet: The machete mugger was laughed out of the bar(Picture: SOLARPIX.COM)

This is the hilarious moment bar staff laugh off a machete-wielding robber, believing his attempted raid to be a prank.

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 money now’.

Believing the thief diguised in a helmet to be a regular customer, the workers 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 grasp the gravity of the situation and reply through tears of laughter: ‘The money 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’.

According to Spanish paper SUR, even after he held the blade up to someone’s neck they didn’t think they were in danger and were convinced that the thief was part of the joke.

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 in the Las Lagunas area of the party city.

Another worker at the bar said in a social media post: ‘Apparently he has held up other places.

‘When he came to the bar the customer and my colleague thought it was a joke and they laughed at him not knowing he was really intending to rob them.

‘This man has now been arrested because he went to another place and had a fight and they detained him.’

He went on to tell a local paper: ‘We didn’t report it to the police initially because we didn’t think it was a genuine hold-up.

‘Hours later though we discovered it wasn’t a joke when we found out about another similar robbery at a nearby hamburger joint where he did make off with money.’

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