Pizza Hut is one of the largest pizzeria chains on the planet, with branches in Romania as well, and in the USA it has an application for iPhone which allows ordering products from your own mobile terminal. Although most Pizza Hut customers use the application for exactly this purpose, a woman from Florida used it to save her life, being held hostage along with her children by her lover who was armed with a knife.
To make it clear to the people at Pizza Hut that she was in danger, the woman placed an order for a product and wrote down the message in the order Please help. Get 911 to me (hostage help), an employee of the pizzeria who received the order notifying the police. Arriving at the scene, the police found the woman unharmed inside her house, she had an arm of one of the children, her boyfriend being found in an adjacent room with a knife in his hand.
A central Florida woman helped save herself and her children by sending a message in an online pizza order that asked employees to call 911 because she was being held hostage. Employees recognized Treadway as a regular customer and called the sheriff's office. Highlands County Sheriff's deputies went to the home, where they were greeted by Treadway, who was carrying a small child. She told them her boyfriend, Ethan Nickerson, 26, was inside the home, armed with a knife. Her other two children were also inside.
This is the first incident of this kind documented by the press in which an application to order food online is used in such a way and helps to save the lives of some people. Of course, the fact that the Pizza Hut employees did not take the message as a joke and notified the police reached in time to save the woman and her children.
To be honest, I don't know if in Romania the employees of a Pizza Hut would have treated everything as something other than a simple joke made by someone, but it is gratifying to see that in case of danger technology can save your life.
