Grand Junction, February 20 (RHC)-- A man in the U.S. state of Colorado is facing a felony menacing charge after two sheriff's deputies say he pointed a banana at them and they thought it was a gun. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports 27-year-old Nathan Rolf Channing was arrested and taken into custody.

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. One of the deputies wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors.

Eyewitnesses say that Deputy Donald Love was drawing his service weapon when Channing yelled: “It's a banana!” Channing was placed under arrest and is scheduled to go before a court hearing in the coming days.