This is an incredible story! A Florida mother being held hostage at knife point by her boyfriend managed to call for help using a pizza-delivery app!
Cheryl Treadway and her three children were trapped in their home on May 5, 2015 after an argument with her boyfriend turned violent. The resourceful mother could not use her phone to call for help but managed convinced her boyfriend to let her use it to order from Pizza Hut, police told news outlets.
She used the app to order a pizza but also wrote “911 hostage help” in the order’s comments, which fortunately the Pizza Hut staff took note of and called police!
Police responded and were able to safely free Treadway and her children and arrest Treadway’s boyfriend, 26-year-old Ethan Earl Nickerson.
“We’ve never seen that before,” Candy Hamilton, manager of the restaurant that took the order, told WFLA. “I’ve been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like that come through.”
I’m so glad she came up with the idea!
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This is not the first time someone has used ordering a pizza as a way to call for help. This woman called 911 under the pretense of calling for pizza.
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