November 27, 2007
Pizza Delivery Gone Wrong
There's been so many murders lately that it's hard to find a new twist on the stories, so here's one: a Pizza Hut pizza delivery man was shot and killed in the Richmond last night as he was trying to deliver a pizza. Apparently, he got lost and was wandering around trying to find the house he was supposed to deliver the pizza too and when he was stopped by several men trying to rob him. When he tried to run away, he was shot in the back, something that anyone who has ever seen a Western knows is the coward's way.
What makes the story even sadder is that the deliveryman was a 38-year-old immigrant named Thanh Thach who became a U.S. citizen last September and leaves two children. He was working two jobs to try and earn enough money to bring his mother to the U.S. from their native home, Cambodia.
The story gets even worse in that police suspect that it might not have been a usual robbery, but that it was a gang initiation. Kind of like that old story about how people in LA would get shot if they turned flashed their lights at another car. We always thought these stories were sort of urban myths, but maybe not. Police suspect that it was an initiation as nothing was taken from the deliveryman, not even the pizza. The other thought is that it was just a robbery gone wrong-- really wrong-- but aren't completely sure yet.
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i couldn't believe this happened in -the richmond- until i looked at the article and found out it was in richmond, as in the east bay. just FYI.
Beat me to it... unless San Francisco has annexed part of Contra Costa without advance notice.
that is a horrible story. my brother was a cop in richmond for all of 3 months. he quit after he just couldn't take it anymore. he said it's pretty hopeless there and that it's quite unfortunate in a town of about 50k people, 5k are ruining it for all of them.
i say we just shoot all of the gang bangers in the head to let the rest of the town get on with their lives.
when does the greater good overwhelm the rights of the violent to a fault few?
according to richmond police lieutenant mark gagan, when thach became a citizen he was quoted as saying it was the happiest day of his life.
he's also reported as telling his girlfriend that while he didn't feel safe delivering in the area, he would keep working the job so he could make enough money to bring his mom here from cambodia.
he worked thirteen years to become a citizen and it all comes down to this. shot twice in the back while delivering pizzas.
what is this world coming to...
"Pizzy" - so I didn't get it until I googled it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pizzy
Pizzy (n.) a variation of the word "Pizza"
"Man, I had some delish pizzy today."
Wow...I'm going use delish and pizzy all the time now.
One large pepperoni, hold the lead slugs please.
The naivete on SFist reeks of the "cultural elite". The tone of "We always thought these stories were sort of urban myths" is arrogant and condecsending to the rest of the real world. You speak of this incident and of these people as though you are observing from a tower, high above it all. Disconnected from the rest of us. Those who are actually down in this shit are alienated by this elitest tone. If you really want to make a difference than be honest. This crime was bullshit. The people who commited it should be shot and anyone who wants to stick around for the rest of there natural life should get their shit in order. Never mind all this "urban myth" shit. It was probably started by terrified white kids who moved to a city from Modesto because they hate mom and dad's church. In Richmond, in Oakland and in most every other shit neighborhood life sucks and attitudes like the one conveyed here just help to convince kids that they have no future. Their destiny is to remain ignorant and alienated. What this is "like" is "like" a man is dead and the people who killed him are running around high on adrenaline. That's no urban myth.
The naivete on SFist reeks of the "cultural elite". The tone of "We always thought these stories were sort of urban myths" is arrogant and condecsending to the rest of the real world. You speak of this incident and of these people as though you are observing from a tower, high above it all. Disconnected from the rest of us. Those who are actually down in this shit are alienated by this elitest tone. If you really want to make a difference than be honest. This crime was bullshit. The people who commited it should be shot and anyone who wants to stick around for the rest of there natural life should get their shit in order. Never mind all this "urban myth" shit. It was probably started by terrified white kids who moved to a city from Modesto because they hate mom and dad's church. In Richmond, in Oakland and in most every other shit neighborhood life sucks and attitudes like the one conveyed here just help to convince kids that they have no future. Their destiny is to remain ignorant and alienated. What this is "like" is "like" a man is dead and the people who killed him are running around high on adrenaline. That's no urban myth.