You having a laugh?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:15 pm
A teenager bakery worker laughed in the face of a masked raider who pointed a gun at her head because she thought it was a friend playing a joke.
Avril Murray, 19, was alone behind the counter during the lunchtime shift in Leeds, West Yorkshire when a hooded man carrying an automatic pistol burst in and demanded money.
CCTV images from the Thomas Dawes and Son Bakery show the girl standing calmly in front of the sandwich counter as he tilts the gun towards her face.
Miss Murray, who has worked at the bakery for two years, said: 'It must have been an unlucky day because it was Friday 13, nothing like this has ever happened before.
'The other staff were on their break so I was on my own when this man suddenly burst in shouting ''give me the money''.
'At first I thought it was someone joking about, so I said, ''Are you having a laugh?''
'It was then he pulled out a gun, started waving it about, then pointed it close to my face over the counter. All the time he kept shouting, ''give me the money''.
'He got really angry. He grabbed some bananas that were on the counter and started chucking them about, then he smashed the glass counter with his fist.
'I said to him, ''no, what are you doing?'' and moved across the counter to get away from him. I walked past the till but there was no way I was going to open it for him.
'I shouted for Neil, the manager, to come out because he was in a back room. He came out and the man ran off and we called the police.'
The CCTV showed that the bungling robber was in the shop for a minute at 1.30pm, before fleeing.
Miss Murray said: 'I think I was more scared afterward when it all hit me. I was shaking. I had to stay in the bakery to give statements to the police.
'You just never expect anything like that to happen. I just stood there looking a bit gormless. I realise now how serious it was.'
West Yorkshire Police are hunting the suspect after the incident on May 13.
The man is a 6ft tall, white male, with a thin build and aged between 18 and 25 years old. He was wearing a dark-coloured hoodie with a light-coloured scarf over his mouth and nose.
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) he'd have been better holding up somewhere else.