Mother foils son’s attempt to rob a convenience store by snatching his toy gun

July 5, 2012 | Filed under: Kids These Days | Posted by: Staff

A Mississippi man’s attempt to rob a convenience store was foiled on Tuesday – by his own mother.

Roy Mitchell, 22, of Flowood, tried to hold up a D’s One Stop Food Mart in Brandon by waving what turned out to be a bogus gun at the clerk while paying for a bag of Doritos.

But before he could make off with the store’s takings, the would-be thief’s mother, Sharron Mitchell, who had followed him into the store, intervened, grabbing the gun from her son’s hands.