Mexican Stand Off – Over Pizza!
It was a lovely sunny day in the heart in Sydney, Australia when a local fast food delivery man decided to take a young girl hostage over a pizza. The local pizza delivery man grabbed the young child as soon as his mother refused to pay for a pizza that was over an hour late!
Once the lady informed the delivery man that he was not going to receive any money for the pizza he grabbed the nephew through the gate and refused to let him go. Local authorities were called on the scene when the delivery man would not give up possession of the child.
The company responsible for delivering the Pizza who are strangely a part time Chinese Takeaway place claim that the delivery man still has his job. “There was no way one of our employees was intending to harm the child” said a representative from the takeaway restaurant. The whole event actually turned into a ‘Mexican Stand Off’ type of event as both parties were trying to negotiate with each other. This goes to show that people can get extremely passionate about Pizza! It goes to show that in this current economic climate when money is tight, businesses will do anything to get that extra buck out of the customer – even hold them to ransom! It makes some sense as latest figures reveal that Food takeaway spending has decreased by 14.5% over the last year which is a massive deficit.
The other week I had ordered a pizza that turned up 45 minutes late than it should of. It was very frustrating indeed. The delivery man was apologetic which is something but he said I still had to pay for the food which I thought was just ridiculous! I got away with only paying him the petrol money for delivering it my house but that was all, there was no Mexican stand off!
