By The Associated Press | Posted - Mar. 19, 2015 at 9:30 a.m.

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BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — A man arrested for investigation of aggravated robbery at a grocery store said it was all a joke.

The Ogden Standard Examiner reports that police arrested 30-year-old Virgil Edgar on Monday afternoon in Northern Utah. He is accused of displaying a three-inch pocket knife and demanding money from someone in a Smith's Food and Drug store in Bountiful.

An affidavit reports that Edgar backed off and said "just kidding" when he saw that the victim also had a knife. The victim asked a store employee to call 911.

Edgar told police that the encounter was a joke and that he often plays around with his knife.

He told police that if someone threatened him with a knife, he would laugh and walk away.

Edgar was booked into Davis County Jail.

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