More weirdness from the day of the Great Capitol Hill Blackout of 2011: SPD was called to the Capitol Loans pawn shop Monday afternoon for a report that a man inside the business at Boylston and Pine was carrying a pistol and a red laser pointer — turned on — when he entered the store and was behaving strangely.

According to the report on the late afternoon incident (before the blackout, by the way), the caller working at the pawn shop told police he, too, was armed but worried about what the man with the pistol might do after the man placed the gun on the shop’s counter and began rifling through his bag. The caller said the man’s movements were “all over the place.”

The officer arrived and entered the shop with the two reportedly armed men still inside. After securing the location, the cop found out that the gun on the counter was an Airsoft air pistol that the man claimed he had brought into the shop to pawn along with the laser pointer and other goods in his bag.

The officer advised the man on the dangers of carrying a realistic looking weapon into a pawn shop and took the air pistol into evidence.