Woman held hostage uses Pizza Hut order to call for help

[Capt. Obvious]

A Florida woman seeking to end a hostage crisis sent an urgent 911 plea to Pizza Hut along with her order.

When the manager of the Avon Park restaurant printed the order for a large pepperoni, she also saw this message: “Please help! Get 911 to me.”

Cheryl Treadway, ordered the pizza online and typed the plea as comment on Tuesday, according to wtsp.com.

Pizza Hut called the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office and deputies found a domestic situation in which the father of Treadway’s children was inside the house with a knife.

Ethan Nickerson was arrested and charged with assault.

Blind link for deception purposes

Wow. Pizza hut just got bumped up from 2nd worst pizza chain to 3rd for this (Sorry Papa Johns).

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I see "911 hostage help" is printed again, along with the price.

Good thing the Pizza people read the ticket carefully.

[Orrex]

2. But did she get the pizza?

Kudos to Ms. Treadway for her clever solution!

[Capt. Obvious]

5. What the receipt doesn't show

is that her pizza asked for extra anchovies.

[SheilaT]

3. What I'm finding a bit weird about this,

that a pizza call for 911 as an urban legend has been out there for a while. There is something about this story, even though it seems to have support, that just doesn't ring true for me.

I dunno. I'm just skeptical about things like this.

added on edit:
How in the world would someone be able to add 911hostagehelp! to the receipt? Or do modern registers act sort of like a basic word processing and you can type in anything?

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. It doesn't type to the receipt. Most takeouts that use online ordering

print whatever notes are left on the order/receipt. On edit: it looks like she put the 911 Hostage Help on further instructions--like instead of light pepperoni or sliced in quarters please)

I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps she had read this urban legend and actually put it to good use.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. link to story at the channel 5 news network. includes booking shot of the dude.

http://ktla.com/2015/05/06/pizza-hut-order-helps-save-florida-mom-3-children-being-held-hostage-man-arrested/

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. "Weird" popped into my head much earlier ...

... as in, "Pizza Hut App"? Seriously?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. why does the link say "blind link for deceptive purposes"?

The link worked, too.

Just wondering.

[Capt. Obvious]

9. Because

Reasons

[KG]

10. ah, the minimal man strikes again.

[Capt. Obvious]

11. Heh

[morningfog]

8. Good job on the manager, and Pizza Hut only charged her $2.75 to foward her message to the Sheriff.

[B2G]

13. What is a 'convenience fee'?

The 911 service?

Well done BTW...

[Iggo]

14. lol @ the convenience fee.

[joeybee12]

15. Pretty clever and I'm glad they noticed it...knr