The timing couldn't have been worse for James Edward Bridges to attempt to rob a gas station - because one of the other customers just happened to be an off-duty jailer.

As Bridges stepped behind the counter, shoved the clerk out of the way, and started taking bank notes from the cash register, the off-duty jailer went into action and whacked the robber upside the head with a six-pack of beer. Then another customer helped the jailer pin Bridges to the floor.

Bridges didn't give in easily though. When police arrived he resisted arrest, kicking and fighting, which resulted in a charge of a battery on an officer – in addition to a felony count of robbery.

The robber had to take a detour to the hospital on his way to jail - for medical attention to the cut on his head caused by the beer bottles.

That beer certainly went to his head.

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