Pizza Man Risks Life for His Pies

The service is great at Famous Famiglia pizza in East Harlem, reports one customer. No kidding! An employee there wouldn't let anything get in the way of his of his delivery—not even a thug threatening him with a gun. The owner of the chain—official pizzeria to the Yankees— told the AP 19-year-old Assami Semde was en route with cheese and pepperoni pies last week when two guys started messing with him. One brandished a gun and told him to drop the boxes. At first Semde seemed to comply, but when the gunslinger bent down to get them he pushed him over. Cops arrested one man on attempted robbery charges and gave the devoted deliveryman a police escort to the pies' rightful recipient.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on April 5, 2010 5:35 PM

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Snoopy

With the price of pizza today, I guess he was worrying he would have to pay for the stolen pizza. Bad choice. Let them have the pizza, have them sign a note with their home address and telephone numbers for his boss to verify that they indeed stole the pizza and all would have worked out fine out in the end.

Gotham Extremist

You not so bright my man, not worth loosing your life for, not when its only a few slices of pizza and its your boss's pizza.

fuboy

Paraphrase-Jinx!

fuboy

A large part of me wants to say YEAH! for the street justice.

On the other hand, Mr. Semde was risking his life for a pizza. Not even his pizza. I just don't think it's worth the risk at that point.

Boogie Down

Is there anything lower than robbing delivery guys? I mean, most of these guys are extremely hardworking immigrants, yet routinely have to deal with abuse and robberies at the hands of these entitled little shits. I hope the delivery guy kicked that little bastard in the teeth after he pushed him over.

Guest

kudos to mr. semde!

hopefully you can find a better job than deliverying pizzas. seriously, think about applying for the nypd. they need more people like you.

ps don't be a cop for more than a few years, especially in this city. i hear that it gets to your head.

Mr Mel

Is that Italian enclave still there, around 116th Street & First Avenue?

theLtrain

Yes but it is dwindling. It is especially present on pleasant avenue, especially the south part of it, 114th st, etc. East harlem has had it's soul ripped out by that costco over there though and many people have sold their houses. Wikipedia says something like 1000+ italians still live there but who knows.

Snoopy

East Harlem. Another section of town that needs a very large wrecking ball that travels through the area late at night, the later the better since these people don't come home until at least four in the morning, and takes down projects at the driver's whim and fancy.