Hug Your Delivery Guy Today

We've fretted over the fate of food delivery people before. Now, after the Globe's latest piece about the perils faced by food delivery people, we ask you to hug your pizza delivery guy today. Those people work hard for their money, and it's a risky gig. There have been 52 delivery-related robberies this year.

The BPD blotter is often full of cases in which a food delivery guy gets held up for a free pizza or the perps take everything. In one instance, perps in Roslindale kept a Domino's pizza guy in the car and ate pizza and barbecue wings in front of him without paying.

As for the perps, have these idiots ever heard of Red Baron or DiGiorno? If you're hard up for cash, try buying cheap pizza. Don't spoil it for everyone else. There are a lot of good people in bad-pizza neighborhoods who can't get food delivery. The Boston Magazine blog also delivers a heartfelt letter to the pizza muggers.

The last time we posted about the Pizza Problem, we printed tips from the BPD that might come in handy should you take a gig schlepping pies:

--Know your neighborhood before you start
--Don't travel with a lot of cash (hence, customers shouldn't expect the pizza guy to break your big bills)
--"Don't deliver in a daze" (loosely translated for those who are in it more for the munchies than the money, lay off the bong hits before you go out)
--If accosted, give up the pizza. It isn't worth it.

One more side note: Isn't it nifty that the general manager of Katrina's Pizza in Roxbury has the name of "Harry Harry"?

Image of pizza from Flickr user Kim Scarborough.