Stomach-turning video captures human ‘pizza rat’ scarfing down toppings while delivering pie in Brooklyn
New York City has a new pizza rat — and this time it’s the two-legged kind.
A security camera in a Brooklyn elevator caught a delivery driver red sauce-handed as he plucked toppings from a Papa John’s pie on his way up to a customer’s apartment.
He punches the floor number, pops open the box and lets the top flop open, exposing a heavily garnished pie, the video shows.
He picks off some apparent meat and veggie additions, quickly scarfs them down and then fumbles as he tries to balance the pie while closing it back up.
The May 1 clip, shared online by a security guard and picked up by the viral Instagram page New Yorkers, racked up hundreds of thousands of views and confirmed many people’s worst takeout nightmares.
“Precisely why I don’t do delivery,” one TikToker commented.
Boxes should be taped shut to prevent tampering, many agreed, and they wouldn’t accept the order otherwise.
Some were especially horrified the sticky-fingered driver was grubbing the food with the same hand he was holding his keys in — and letting the dirty chain dangle in the food.
Others scoffed at the New Yorker’s pizza choice — ordering from the Indiana-based chain while living in the nation’s pizza capital.
The driver was wearing a helmet and didn’t appear to be wearing a Papa John’s uniform, suggesting he was working for a third-party delivery company while delivering for the pizza joint, which the original poster said was in Midwood.
The good Samaritan who caught the pepperoni plunderer in the act wrote that she immediately ran to the customer’s door and told her what she saw.
“She didn’t touch the pizza, I got to her before she did,” the woman wrote.
