Because posing as a masked armed robber at a check cashing store as a joke always gets a laugh (attorney, high school)

[Magnolia Bloom]

Mandarin High coach, former FSU linebacker charged with aggravated assault in pre-Halloween hold-up | Jacksonville.com

An assistant football coach at Mandarin High School and former Florida State University linebacker is in jail after what his attorney called an unfortunate prank the night before Halloween....

A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office report said a man wearing black clothing and gloves and a white mask entered a Check 'n Go store in the 8600 block of South Old Kings Road shortly before 7 p.m. Oct. 30. He pointed what looked like a shotgun at the clerk and demanded the money in the register....

The robbery ended abruptly when the man asked for the contents of the safe. The clerk told the gun-wielding intruder that she'd have to call a manager to get the safe open, the report said.

That's when he took his mask off and said it was all a joke. He ran out the exit but came back five minutes later to apologize.

What a lame excuse. Fail!

[sailordave]

Gee, his college education is money well spent. Put that university's football program on probation. (they're in the same conference as our local university's football team,...hehe)

[newonecoming]

Some jokes just aren't funny.

[JoeyPants]

He's lucky he was not shot.