By Tim Binnall
A Canadian man is at his wit's end due to a nefarious individual who has repeatedly ordered pizzas to his home and workplace for the last six months. The weird case reportedly began back in November when Justin Rybicki's dinner at his home in the community of Stony Plain, Alberta was interrupted by a delivery driver from the Canadian restaurant chain Pizza 73. Since he had not ordered anything that evening, he initially assumed the visit was some kind of mistake, but an email confirming the transaction soon led to the suspicion that he was the victim of identify theft. The following day, the situation became even stranger when Pizza 73 contacted him about a sizeable order set to be delivered to his job.
Although he thought that he had put a stop to the order, Rybicki was understandably chagrined when a delivery driver still showed up at his workplace later that day. "He started losing it because he has $150 worth of pizza that I'm not paying for," he recalled, "he left all cranky and swearing at me, being kind of rude to me." After a third unwanted delivery attempt, Rybicki took the drastic measure of having himself blacklisted by Pizza 73, but this did little to thwart his tormentor, who simply began placing orders with Domino's. Since the start of the year, the beleaguered man has received an additional three unwanted orders from the popular chain, leaving little doubt that he is being targeted.
RCMP officer Troy Savinkoff echoed that assessment, musing that one order might be dismissed as a fairly harmless prank, but "we're into more of a mischief, fraud, and now harassment. That continuing behavior is concerning." To that end, an irritated Rybicki lamented that "every time I see Pizza 73 commercials, it gives me nightmares." What might be just as maddening as the cruel campaign itself is that he has no idea who could be behind it. "Either someone hates Pizza 73 and Domino's or they're getting revenge on me or something," he said, suggesting that perhaps an angry former co-worker could be to blame, but ultimately conceding that "I have no clue."