A diminutive Illinois man thought that robbing the local bank would be the answer to all of his financial troubles. Just one problem: he used a plastic toy gun to pull off the heist.

Employees at the First National River Rat’s Bank in the quiet Mississippi River community of Quincy, Illinois, were amused when 22 year-old Lance Brinsky showed up at a teller window holding an empty McDonald’s bag and brandishing his bright yellow Space Cadet Laser Ray Gun.

“Fill up this bag or I’ll pop a cap in your ass,” demanded the scruffy, four-foot-two Brinsky as he pointed the phony gun at Angela Carlson, the teller on duty that day.

Carlson, trying her best to keep from giggling, told the pint-sized robber to have a seat in the lobby and she would be right back with some cash. Carlson walked into the employee break room and grabbed a handful of “money” from the Monopoly game sitting on the table, stuffing it into the grease-stained paper bag.

She then handed the fake loot to the fake robber, just as four real police officers arrived to put Brinsky in real handcuffs.

“Everybody in town knows Lance…he’s the local weirdo,” said one of the police officers at the scene. “That little shit’s always doing something stupid. Last summer he was throwing rocks at cars along Main Street. Something wrong with that boy.”

“Dude, maybe you can buy the Pennsylvania Railroad with all that cash!,” shouted Carlson as the room erupted in laughter while Brinsky was being led out the door to an awaiting patrol car.

Brinsky’s attempts to post bail later that day with the Monopoly money proved equally unsuccessful.