TEENAGERS making an action film caused armed police to race to Mildred Avenue yesterday.

A worried neighbour mistook three lads with a plastic toy gun as robbers trying to break into a home at around 3.50pm.

Armed officers rushed to the scene and carefully approached the front door of the house the boys had entered.

After knocking twice, with their weapons at the ready, a boy of around 15-years-old sheepishly opened the front door.

Witnesses Alex Vane, 15, and his brother Joe, 12, watched the incident unfold from their window opposite.

Alex said: “They looked scared, but one of them was laughing.”

Joe added: “The person filming kept putting his hands down and the police got angry about it.”

The teenagers, one of whom lives at the house, were lined up by a police car as two officers raised their guns and entered the property.

Joe said the police found the toy gun and came back outside looking a lot more relaxed.

According to the witnesses, the dad of the teenage filmmaker had been sun bathing in the back garden and was shocked to suddenly find armed police in his home.

Police questioned the boys and father and stayed at the scene for around 30 minutes.

Joe and Alex said the incident had made their summer holidays and was “more exciting than Call of Duty” – a popular videogame.

Another neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said was not alarmed by the incident.

The mother-of-two had spotted the boys filming during the past week and quickly put two and two together.

Ironically, she described the police like an American SWAT team and said their presence had made Mildred Avenue feel like the set of a movie.

She said: “It’s not the type of area you have to worry about people running around with guns and knives, I wasn’t scared.”