An Upper East Side robber targeted the wrong restaurateur last weekend. When 30-year-old David Miller approached 39-year-old Jonathan Bash Sunday evening and flashed a knife, he expected to get some money. Instead he got beaten up and sent to the slammer.

Bash, who owns the Upper East Side eatery Cafe Luka, managed to live out every robbery victim's fantasy. Here's how he described the action to the Post:

"The guy came up to me and said I want money," Bash said. "I said go f - - k yourself. I saw the butt of the knife in his pocket. I grabbed his wrist. He went for the knife, and I kicked it out of his hand and held him to the ground." Then the aptly named Bash remembered a few moves from his wrestling days.

"I had my knee in his back, my hand on his head and I drove his forehead into the ground a bit," he said.



As Bash made quick work of the 5'5" Miller, a pedestrian called the cops who quickly arrived and arrested the would-be robber. Miller was charged with first-degree attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. He's being held in lieu of a $7,5000 bail.

According to the NYPD the number of reported robberies in New York City are down almost five percent this year—we'd like to think victims fighting back has something to do with that?