Usually when you hear about retail employees standing up to criminals, it involves playing the hero (and often getting fired for their efforts), but one clerk at a Denver video game store managed to deny a would-be robber by simply telling him it’s not cool to hold up his little store.

The clerk tells CBS Denver that the man, who also robbed a record store and a gas station during his Sunday night spree — and who had allegedly stolen merchandise from the store before, had been perusing the store’s PlayStation 3 games when he approached the register and demanded cash.

“I told him ‘no’ because I didn’t think it was right for him to try to steal from us,” says the clerk, who wasn’t going to let the $10 in his register go without a fight. “He proceeded to ask, I told him I thought it was messed up he was trying to rob a small business.”

The robber took off with the clerk in pursuit. The robber got away but was later apprehended after his vehicle crashed into a car and then flipped onto its side on a nearby lawn.

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