[Faline]

Two customers disarmed and restrained an armed robber at a McDonald's in Mulgrave, in Melbourne's east, Australia, in the early hours of November 12, 2012. Kasun Fernando, 25, and Ishan Wickramathunga, 22, held the man until police arrived.

The man, wearing a balaclava and carrying a sawn-off rifle, pointed the weapon at the customers and ordered them to kneel. As he bagged cash from the till, he put the rifle down on the counter. Fernando tackled him, and Wickramathunga helped disarm and restrain him. Surveillance footage shows a struggle near the counter before two people pin the man to the floor beside the dining tables.

Fernando and Wickramathunga were later honoured for their bravery at a ceremony at Government House in Victoria in November 2014.

[kellyhound]

Tyler Forsyth of Heatherton stormed a Mulgrave McDonalds armed with a sawn-off bolt-action military grade rifle.

The 20-year-old demanded money from counter staff and then made two customers kneel before threatening them and taking their wallets and cash.

But after the admitted drug user turned his back on the pair to stuff a bag with more than $700 in cash from the restaurant's cash register, the terrified customers struck back, tackling Forsyth to the ground and holding him until police arrived.

Forsyth pleaded guilty at the Victorian County Court to possessing the unregistered firearm and three counts of armed robbery.

Forsyth told the police he was forced to rob the store by three men who he owed a $700 drug debt.

He declined to reveal their identify to police but said he was remorseful soon after his arrest.

"I feel like a dumbass," Forsyth said during his police interview.

"I put other people in a situation I would not like to be put in. I made them fear for their lives," he said Forsyth was remanded in custody to be sentenced at a later date.