Where pizza delivery is concerned, the police in Illinois don't mess around. According to Only Oswego, an officer pulled over a pizza delivery driver for driving through a parking lot to avoid a red light earlier this week. The officer realized the driver — who was in the middle of his shift — and his passenger had drug paraphernalia in the car. Upon taking the two into custody, the officer decided to complete the delivery to the hungry customer himself.
"We try to do all we can to help our residents, but I think this is the first time we've delivered a pizza."
Police Chief Jeff Burgner told the paper, "We try to do all we can to help our residents, but I think this is the first time we've delivered a pizza." A post on the Oswego Police's Facebook page hilariously reveals that a "confused resident accepted the pizza, and was very glad that the police were there to deliver the pizza, rather than talk to them."
This isn't the first time a police officer finished a delivery for a pizzeria driver. Last year in Oregon, after a Pizza Hut delivery driver was injured in a car accident while on the job, two officers who responded to the scene completed the delivery on his behalf.