Nicholas Anderson of Hickory, North Carolina took his girlfriend to a restaurant on Monday, and planned on proposing to her there.

But just before he could ask her to marry him, a guy busted in to rob the place.

So Nicholas quickly shifted gears. He jumped up, grabbed the guy, put him in a choke hold, and knocked him out.

The news didn’t have any information on whether the the cops came and arrested the guy, but we’re assuming that’s what happened.

Now that his crime fighting was out of the way, Nicholas was back to marriage proposal mode, but the whole robbery thing had kinda ruined the romantic atmosphere in the restaurant.

So they left and went to a park, where he finally proposed — and she said yes.

He says: “After all that happened, asking her to marry me wasn’t near as bad.”