Game Over: Man Attempts Robbery With Joystick

Man uses Playstation remote control to commit two robberies

Video games are so life like these days, people are now confusing joy sticks for real weapons.

A Florida man was arrested over the weekend after he tried to use a Playstation remote control to stick up a convenience store in St. Petersburg, Bay News 9 reported.

Cameron Pittman, 20, hid the remote control in his pocket and told the cashier it was a gun and that he came for the money, police said.

But much like a scene from the cartoonish world of video games, Pittman's robbery attempt was foiled when a cop walked into the store while the video gamer was holding up the joint.

Pittman, who allegedly used the joystick ploy to pull off a successful robbery moments earlier at a sandwich shop, immediately dropped the Playstation controller and surrendered.

Game over with no possibility of continues.

Pittman is charged with armed robbery and violation of probation.

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