Phillip Brooks, a 70-year-old Army veteran, was walking to his regular seat in a Fayetteville, N.C., Waffle House when a would-be robber rushed in, waving what appeared to be an AK-47.
“He ran up to the cash register, started demanding the money—‘Give me all the money in the drawer. Open the drawer,’” Brooks told WRAL.com.
All the working parts were missing, so I just told the girls, 'Don't give him anything. That's a fake gun.'
, Vietnam veteran
