NY Pizza Blue: Delivering Pies With Red Lights Flashing

William Meyer (Flickr)

If all this talk of Pizzacones is creating a craving emergency in your belly, help is just a phone call away—at least for parts of Brooklyn. Bushwick resident William Meyer just sent us this dark yet humorous photo of an NYPD Parking Enforcement Vehicle retrofitted as a pizza delivery car. Meyer tells us he saw it "stopped in the middle of rush hour traffic on Bushwick Ave on Friday; its red emergency strobes were on and rotating, and the driver was standing at the back, taking a pizza out of the trunk for delivery."

Vehicles like this are often auctioned off when the NYPD is done with them (after removing the logos and lights). One assumes this unidentified pizzeria subsequently added the emergency lights in order to facilitate the urgent delivery of life-sustaining pizza. So if you know what pizza precinct this guy is operating out of, please let us know—we need immediate back-up! (Below, for old time's sake, the barely tangentially related 1987 commercial for the Parker Brothers game Pizza Party.)

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By John Del Signore in Food on February 22, 2010 2:00 PM

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vikii wong

minus the siren lights, the pizza delivery cart is awesome! is the pizza any good?

ProcedureTurn

This is an awesome idea. Pizza delivery is a valuable entity in NYC. They shouldbe given special permission to cut through lights... cold pizza is never tasty!!!

40oz.killa

What are you talking about, cold pizza in the morning is GREAT.

DaleyGrind

Sirens flashing?

kazubes

Yea that's def illegal, and that driver could potentially get slapped with impersonation

jaycjay

Simply having the lights on wouldn't be enough to charge impersonation. It's an equipment violation under NYS Vehicle and Traffic law.

Criminal impersonation requires intent to induce someone to do something because they believe you are whatever it is you're pretending to be. In other words, if you simply tell someone you're a cop you haven't committed criminal impersonation. But if you then ask for their drivers license, you have.

echo

If you really want to know... 83rd precinct. I always see it around/parked, but I've never seen it on the street.

Mr Mel

Everytime I think someone has done the dumbest thing ever something else comes along.

Ralph Steadman

Why is this dumb? I think it´s great.

Spirit of 76

Because it's illegal and can get you a nice summons and fine. Is it really worth the risk for the pizzeria owner? Red lightbars are for emergency vehicles only. No exceptions.

Kojak

Its illegal to keep the lights on if they're not for official use. Perhaps they can get away with Yellow flashing lights, but not Red ones.

All in all, an awesome idea.