# Pizza boy by day, crime fighter by night

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 10, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612 "2005-04-10T01:34:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612/1 "2005-04-10T01:34:07Z")

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[This kid](http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=111617&z=184) stopped a man robbing his father’s pizza shop.

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> 6-foot, 3-inch tall student-athlete, who weighs 205 pounds and has been wrestling since seventh grade, said he knew the man he pursued wasn’t much of a threat.“Something triggered inside me that said ‘Go get the man,’” Chris recalled, adding that he has wrestled much larger competitors…Reaching out with his arms, he grabbed the burglar, placed him in a half nelson, a maneuver he learned from years of wrestling, and tackled the man to the ground.

And people say teenagers are good for nothing!

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612/2 "2005-04-10T10:41:09Z")

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What did the robber say, “Stand and deliver!”?

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**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612/3 "2005-04-10T11:23:52Z")

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> [@Case Sensitive](#):
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> What did the robber say, “Stand and deliver!”?

I think there’s a Nelson joke in there somewhere…

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612/4 "2005-04-10T12:25:20Z")

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If only the robber had been in and out in under thirty minutes, he would have made it!

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-boy-by-day-crime-fighter-by-night/298612/5 "2005-04-10T17:41:32Z")

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Great story. Thanks, **Xan**!