# Pizza worker tries to cheese off customers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701 "2018-06-08T17:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/1 "2018-06-08T17:19:27Z")
Cops: Pizza Worker Tampered With Shredded Cheese[http://www.newser.com/story/260299/cops-pizza-worker-tampered-with-shredded-cheese.html?utm\_source=part&utm\_medium=att&utm\_campaign=rss\_crime\_syn](http://www.newser.com/story/260299/cops-pizza-worker-tampered-with-shredded-cheese.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_crime_syn) > [@](#): > > Customers at a North Carolina pizzeria may have dodged a close one last week. [The News & Observer](http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article212697419.html) reports an employee at Fayetteville’s Primo Pizza was arrested Wednesday and accused of mixing what cops believe was rat poison in with the shredded cheese. Per a Fayetteville Police release, a sharp-eyed manager was prepping a pizza pie last Friday when he noticed “an unknown substance” in the pizza topping and went to check out the restaurant’s surveillance footage. And to think people complain about Domino’s. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/2 "2018-06-08T17:23:16Z")
So how did it taste? It might have been an improvement! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/3 "2018-06-08T17:28:57Z")
$100,000 bond. The guy is 59 and will likely get 10 years or more for the crime. Moron. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/4 "2018-06-08T17:52:37Z")
Just one question: “Why”? Seriously, I really hope they get some insight into motive. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/5 "2018-06-08T17:54:22Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Just one question: “Why”? Seriously, I really hope they get some insight into motive. He was a cook? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/6 "2018-06-08T17:55:54Z")
He’s an asshole who wanted to get back at the owner. By making their customers sick and damaging the business. Nevermind that it may have killed people and made him a murderer. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/7 "2018-06-08T17:58:31Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > He’s an asshole who wanted to get back at the owner. By making their customers sick and damaging the business. Nevermind that it may have killed people and made him a murderer. Where did you get that info? The two linked articles say only that > [@](#): > > Public records show Adami was previously convicted of burning a public building, multiple DWIs, multiple breaking and enterings and larceny in the 1980s and 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/8 "2018-06-08T18:03:23Z")
Out of chemistry curiosity, how would the baking heat of the oven affect rat poison? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/9 "2018-06-08T18:06:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Where did you get that info? Likely hypothesis. Does it seem unlikely to you? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/10 "2018-06-08T18:28:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Likely hypothesis. Does it seem unlikely to you? A bit, yes. Especially given the information available. But maybe this is where you live and you read a news report we haven’t seen or something, so I thought I’d ask. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/11 "2018-06-08T19:03:53Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Out of chemistry curiosity, how would the baking heat of the oven affect rat poison? Need answer fast? In 15 minutes or less? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/12 "2018-06-08T19:19:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Need answer fast? > > In 15 minutes or less? well… ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/13 "2018-06-08T20:33:35Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Out of chemistry curiosity, how would the baking heat of the oven affect rat poison? Most rat poison is one or more 4-hydroxycoumarins, with the simplest example being warfarin. Heating in an oven in atmosphere for a bit might degrade it a bit, but I sure wouldn’t bet my life on it. I don’t see an obvious degradation pathway. Warfarin melts at about 322 F, so it’d probably mix with the ingredients fairly well. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/14 "2018-06-08T21:15:36Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > He’s an asshole who wanted to get back at the owner. [Looks that way.](http://abc11.com/food/employee-accused-of-putting-rat-poison-in-cheese-at-fayetteville-pizza-place/3570247/) > [@](#): > > “He has also made additional threats that he would come back and shoot up the business,” said District Attorney Billy West. “And apparently there were some ongoing problems between him and his employer and so the threats along with the possibility of hazardous materials being put into the food we felt it was necessary to protect the community and increase his bond.” [Reportedly was under the influence of heroin at the time.](https://www.wral.com/police-employee-at-fayetteville-pizzeria-put-rat-poison-in-cheese-/17611501/) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/15 "2018-06-08T21:24:43Z")
The thing is, even though a poisoned pizza didn’t go out, the business still probably will suffer. On a tangent, I was once helping write a “Finish the western” story on these boards. I planned to have a bad guy murder one of his henchmen by ODing him on laudanum. So I called up my sister the pharmacist and asked how much it would take to kill an adult man of average size. In a rather hushed tone she asked me _"Why do you need to know?_"😛 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/16 "2018-06-08T21:27:12Z")
Their [motto](http://primopizza.net/) is “It’s Pizza with an Attitude.” That’s some attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/17 "2018-06-08T21:31:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The thing is, even though a poisoned pizza didn’t go out, the business still probably will suffer. In another article, the owner mentioned throwing out over a thousand pounds of ingredients that this person had access to. $$$ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/18 "2018-06-08T21:35:59Z")
[Now Homer won’t have to make two stops!](https://youtu.be/h2YZ-i8PvYQ?t=45) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/19 "2018-06-08T21:42:06Z")
Gee whiz, I wonder why some businesses are hesitant to hire convicted felons. :dubious: Most aren’t dangerous to the community, at least not in this way, but yeah, some are. Whether the poison would have degraded in the oven would depend on what it was, how much was used, if it was on the surface or mixed in, etc. Back in my pizza-making days, we got our mozzarella in big blocks and shredded it with a mixer attachment. One day, someone used the wrong plate, and another employee was referring to it as “the bad cheese” in front of customers, and we had to explain to them that the pizza cheese wasn’t “bad”, just shredded the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701/20 "2018-06-08T21:48:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > So I called up my sister the pharmacist and asked how much it would take to kill an adult man of average size. In a rather hushed tone she asked me _"Why do you need to know?_"😛 Hope you didn’t call her at work. i.e., “All calls may be monitored for quality and training purposes…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-worker-tries-to-cheese-off-customers/815701.md?page=2)