Pizza HutPizza Hut's smartphone app can do more than just deliver delicious pizza right to your door; it can also deliver life-saving help.
A woman in Florida was able to escape a potentially dangerous hostage situation by ordering a pizza through the Pizza Hut app on her phone and including a note in her order to send help.
On Monday, Cheryl Treadway and her two children were taken hostage by her boyfriend, 26-year-old Ethan Nickerson, who was in possession of a large knife while allegedly threatening to kill her. Treadway eventually convinced Nickerson to let her use her phone to order a pizza, and that's when she made her move.
Treadway ordered a small pepperoni pizza and in the notes section she wrote: "Please help. Get 911 to me" and "911 hostage help!" Nickerson took the phone away as soon as she was done ordering the food.
When her order got to the Avon Park Pizza Hut, employees recognized Treadway as a regular customer and immediately contacted police.
We've never seen that before," manager Candy Hamilton told WFLA-TV. "I've been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like that come through."
When officials got to the home, Treadway answered the door and they were able to get her and the children out of the house safely and unharmed. Twenty minutes later, they talked the boyfriend into coming out peacefully and he was put under arrest.
"I don't know if I would have thought of it," Lt. Curtis Ludden said about the 911 pizza order. "I mean it's just something she did so naturally. The boyfriend never knew about it until he saw us coming around the corner."
We're so glad everyone made it out of that situation safely, but our question is: what happened to the pizza?!