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 A waitress at a Georgia Waffle House got fired from her job after she tried to protect the restaurant from three robbers who demanded cash. 
 
 Coweta County officials are still searching for three male robbers who entered the Waffle House early Thursday morning in Newnan, Ga. 
 
 When the men entered the restaurant around 2:30 a.m., one of them walked over to the counter and gave an employee a note threatening to shoot everyone inside the restaurant unless they handed over money, according to a police report. 
 
 Heather Stanley’s co-worker gave her the note, prompting her to grab her gun from her car. She then fired once into the air as the robbers escaped to their vehicles. 
 
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 Former Waffle House employee Heather Stanley said she was fired after she tried to protect the restaurant. (wsbtv) 
 
 “I know what I did. To myself I felt it was right and wouldn’t hesitate, I would do it again,” Stanley told WSB-TV. 
 
 No one was hurt during the incident, officials said. 
 
 Stanley was then fired as a result of her actions, adding that she didn’t expect management would take drastic measures. 
 
 The three robbers remain at large, officials said. (wsbtv) 
 
 “For trying to protect their Waffle House and trying to protect their money and to get their money back, they let me go,” she said. 
 
 The mother of three set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for expenses while she searches for a new job. 
 
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– When three robbers walked into the Waffle House in Newnan, Georgia, where she worked, Heather "Shorty" Burkinshaw-Stanley didn't hesitate. As the trio made their escape, the waitress followed them outside and fired a shot, the Daily News reports. For her efforts, Burkinshaw-Stanley was fired. But the mother of three says she's do it all again. "To myself I felt it was right," she tells WSB-TV. The drama unfolded in the wee hours Thursday after the three men finished a meal and handed a waitress a note threatening to shoot everyone if she didn't hand over "all the money," reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. No gun was shown. They got $200 and walked out. Meanwhile, Burkinshaw-Stanley strode to her car, grabbed a gun, and fired a shot in the air "in an attempt to scare the robbers," she explains. "I didn’t know if they had guns … so my instinct was to go to my car and get the gun,” Burkinshaw-Stanley tells WSB. "I was in fear for my life, my co-workers’ lives, and I did what I thought was right," she tells the Newnan Times-Herald. Her employers apparently didn't think so and fired her the following day. "We want people to feel safe on both sides of the counter," says a Waffle House rep. “That bullet could have went anywhere, hit anyone," one neighbor tells WSB, "but I definitely think she had the right to defend herself." Cops are looking for the suspects and Burkinshaw-Stanley, who worked at the chain restaurant for nearly two years, is looking for a new job. She started a GoFundMe page to make ends meet, and about $7,000 has been donated. (This waitress was stiffed for not looking "normal.")