What would you do if two armed men came into your work and demanded that you hand over all of the cash register's money? For one Stockton man the answer was simple: steal their car.

19-year-old Gabriel Gonzalez and 23-year-old Jeremy Lovitt held up a Burger King in Stockton, Calif. Thursday night around 9:45 p.m. Both of the men ran into the restaurant armed with handguns and demanded that they be given all the cash on hand.

While the two suspects were busy collecting their bounty, one of the Burger King employees snuck out the back of the building in an effort to escape. When he finally did get out, the employee, who is unnamed, noticed a car running with nobody nearby.

It was then that the employee put two and two together and realized who the owners of the car must be. Thinking quickly, the employee hopped in the suspects' getaway car and moved it away from the building, foiling their plans of escape.

"I haven't heard of any employee actually leaving a business, getting inside the suspect vehicle and trying to hide it," says Officer Joe Silva of the Stockton Police Department.

But that is precisely what the Burger King employee did. When the two burglary suspects finally came out of the establishment and realized that their ride was gone, they panicked and immediately ran on foot into a nearby field.

From there, the Stockton Police Department was soon on the scene and had little trouble identifying and capturing the two suspects. They attribute their successful capture to the actions of the brave employee."The quick action of this employee did allow our officer to get on scene and arrest the suspects," said Silva.

Despite the successful foiling of the burglary, police advise that bystanders do not attempt similar heroics when dealing with armed suspects. They say it is best to leave them alone and protect one's self from harm.