Evoking the famous scene in the film Crocodile Dundee, café manager Johan David Cruz Arevalo scared off a knife-wielding robber.

He upstaged Touhid Rahman, who had a 20-centimetre knife, with a much larger “meat cutting” knife, police told a court.

Rahman has pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted aggravated robbery and will be sentenced next week, ABC reports.