The Pizza Truck Heist
by Scooter
I believe this was the first of our stooges pranks in B'ham. I could swear it happened 1st Qtr 72. How did you learn of it? The heist was really quite simple.
I believe this was the first of our stooges pranks in B'ham. I could swear it happened 1st Qtr 72. How did you learn of it? The heist was really quite simple.
As I recall, we had little luck seeking a party with chicks around the Western campus one night and decided to head home, but none of us wanted to walk. We might have had a few beers in us and it may well have been colder than we would have liked but the house on Humboldt Street was only a good mile from campus and I think we all walked to school regularly. I don't ever remember taking the bus to school 'though Jerry might have gotten us close in the Pontiac if the weather were really bad or something but you could never get all that close without a parking permit and I know we wouldn't spend brewski funds for anything so extravagant.
Anyway, as we grumbled about the walk a pizza delivery truck (PDT) pulled up. It was a real pizza delivery rig that had swapped out the pickup bed for a fiber glass cube with stainless thermally fitted doors for storing the oven-hot pies The driver hopped out and pulled an armload of boxed pizzas for delivery to an adjacent dorm. Jerry (we hadn't started doling out nicknames yet) said "Anyone for pizza?" We didn't think he was serious but we all started giggling as we considered the consequences. I don't remember much more of the decision making process and I can't say for sure who drove, though it was probably Jerry.
We didn't head straight home, instead we made a point of blaring from the windows that "we're delivering pizza" to anyone we passed and howling with laughter.
I will never forget my exchange with Phil as we grew more and more giddy:
"So this is what's known as a joyride!"
"No," he said, "this is what's known as grand theft auto".
He nearly split a gut howling at that one 'though I remember gulping. I believe we more or less made our way home then and parked the PDT a few blocks from the Humboldt house.
And yes, we did eat pizza that night. We must have pulled the 4-6 pies (surely all that was left) for ourselves.
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Anyway, as we grumbled about the walk a pizza delivery truck (PDT) pulled up. It was a real pizza delivery rig that had swapped out the pickup bed for a fiber glass cube with stainless thermally fitted doors for storing the oven-hot pies The driver hopped out and pulled an armload of boxed pizzas for delivery to an adjacent dorm. Jerry (we hadn't started doling out nicknames yet) said "Anyone for pizza?" We didn't think he was serious but we all started giggling as we considered the consequences. I don't remember much more of the decision making process and I can't say for sure who drove, though it was probably Jerry.
We didn't head straight home, instead we made a point of blaring from the windows that "we're delivering pizza" to anyone we passed and howling with laughter.
I will never forget my exchange with Phil as we grew more and more giddy:
"So this is what's known as a joyride!"
"No," he said, "this is what's known as grand theft auto".
He nearly split a gut howling at that one 'though I remember gulping. I believe we more or less made our way home then and parked the PDT a few blocks from the Humboldt house.
And yes, we did eat pizza that night. We must have pulled the 4-6 pies (surely all that was left) for ourselves.
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