RFP Staff
♦ Its getting rough out there in the Bury for food delivery drivers and the people who cabbie at night. Never know when your number will get punched by some tip beating desperados.
Sticking up food delivery persons is a much easier score in Salisbury than home break-ins where the homeowner may have left an unfed rogue African Lion tethered in his living room or equally worse the homeowner has a chip on his shoulder and owns a small armory of automatic weapons. And heaven forbid if they haven’t thrown out their aging Walmart rotisserie chicken in their underperforming fridge. On the lam from the po po and being crimped by salmonella is not a good space. We suspect the food is fresher at “wings n’ things” or “Pizza Hut”.
Putting the bip on a pizza delivery person presents the best of all possible worlds–easy grub and quick cash.
Thursday in the very early a.m., two pizza loving banditos dialed up Pizza Hut and placed their order for pizza and wings and had it sent to a vacant abode in the 800 block of East Franklin Street. Pizza Hut well noted for the prompt delivery and zesty pizza, dispatched a driver to “ambush alley”.
It wasn’t long after the delivery person pulled up on East Franklin Street that two knuckleheads started pounding on his windshield. The delivery person stared numbly at a pair of handguns and heard gruff demands to give up his money, the pizza and wing order, and get down on the ground. The delivery person hastily complied. He wasn’t going to risk life and limb over pizza and wings and what little cash he could muster.
On this voyage out into the Salisbury darkness, the deliveryman went uninjured. Because the bandits faces were obscured he couldn’t supply any ID. No doubt he’ll be hashing and rehashing the stick-up for days to come and feel glad he walked away. Trips out after dark in the Bury can be an adventure.
If you know anything about this Thursday’s incident, call the Salisbury Police at (704)-638-5333 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.
