Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Pizza delivery man fights off armed robbers, still makes delivery.

From Huffington Post:
A New York City pizza deliveryman outwitted an armed robber trying to make off with his pies and still managed to deliver them to his customer.

Assami Semde, 19, a student from Burkina Faso who has been in the U.S. six months, was working at Famous Famiglia 125 pizza in East Harlem and was making a delivery to an apartment Friday evening when the robbery attempt occurred, his boss said.

"He's just the greatest, most polite guy you'll ever meet," said his boss, Frank Grecco, who owns the pizza shop. "He wasn't expecting this, he was just doing his job."

As Semde headed to the 27th floor, he came across two men in a hallway who started harassing him, saying they wanted a slice of pizza. Semde said no, that he had a delivery to make. But one of the men pulled out a gun and told him and Semde dropped the pies on the ground. As gunman reached down, Semde said he lunged at him, and toppled him off balance. The 6-foot-4 Semde scuffled with the men as building security making a routine check came by and the two fled.

[...] The security officers called the police who responded within minutes. But before Semde went to the precinct to file the report, he delivered the pizzas.

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