CCTV footage shows a gunman entering a store and immediately pointing a gun at the clerk waiting by the counter.

It is among a store clerk's (or anybody's for that matter) greatest fears, to be held at gunpoint in an armed robbery, but the clerk decided to turn the tables, stooping down as if to obey the gunman's demands...only to pull out a machete, and proceeding to chase the gunman out of the store and across the parking lot.

Long Island police officials say that the armed robber went into the Stop & Shop Deli last September 25 and fired off a shot into the wall with his .22 caliber pistol to intimidate the worker on duty, demanding that he fill his Air Jordan backpack with store cash.

However, the 24-year old clerk, who had seemed to have remained relatively calm (jumping slightly at the gunshot), reaches below the counter and unsheathe what looks to be a 2-foot-long machete. He then opens his counter gate, and begins chasing the robber out of the store and across the parking lot.

The deli worker was on the robber's heels as he took off, brandishing the machete wildly in the air.

The owner of the deli store, Elena Alvarado, has told the media that they had started keeping a machete for protective reasons a month ago.

 While the clerk's actions were nothing short of heroic, Alvarado says she wishes he had just given in to the robber's demands. "You can make money again, but not your life," she says. Police have remarked that the employee had been lucky to have not gotten shot and killed in the process.

The machete-wielding clerk had been employed at the Stop & Shop part time for the last four years.

Watch the video below; the cutoff shot of the armed robber running like all hell has broken loose with the machete wielding employee close behind is a favorite. Besides that part where he pulls out a gleaming machete, of course.