Tuesday, March 30, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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False pizza orders costly
Staff Writer
By DAVE REGIER
Stealing food from fast-food delivery vehicles is a decreasing problem, but placing an order with a false address on it is a growing one.
But there are several defenses against false orders.
"The biggest problem is people calling in and ordering pizza for other people who don't know about it." Debbie Luffman, Shawnee mission sophomore, said Friday.
“A few seconds on the phone is worth $5 worth of food.”
Michael McLees, Campus Hideaway employee, said, "We still get about one phony order a week. We call back every time if it were my mother, we'd have to call back.
Another defense is having experience in detecting prank phone orders.
"There is something you can recognize in the voice, or something." Nich Brown,的管理者。
JIM MARSHALL, owner of Hole-in-the-Wall Delicatessen and Sandwich Shop, said, "Most of the kids calling in a bad order never think about the consequences.
"We're wasting food while people are starving. This bothers me more than the loss of time or money. I'm the loser, and this hurts that starves along the line is also the loser."
Marshall said that he loses between $25 and $30 monthly nonreal false orders.
Pizza steals sometimes call in a false order so they can be waiting to take food from the delivery vehicle while other food is being delivered.
Brown said he once delivered a pizza to a crowded apartment. When he returned to his car, he found the rest of the pizzas missing.
HE SAID he went back to the apartment and walked inside to see four pizzas. The people said they had picked them up from the Pizza Hut, but Brown recognized the pizza boxes as the ones used only for deliveries. He ordered that people ordered the pizza ripped off the rest of the pizzas in the oven, "micro rolled," he said. Willard
price or I'll call the police. I was mad that night. That's the only time I made a mistake.
The price of some sandwiches stolen from Marshall at a KF饺店 was paid much later, and the police said it was stolen.
In the final competition, the finalists will present their arguments again, and be judged on the quality of their presentations by a panel of three prominent state judges.
Bob Ellison, captain of the KU Police Department, said he could remember no 1927.
They are Richard D. Rogers, United States District Judge, Topeka; John Fonnott, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas; and Robert Miller, Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, all KU law school graduates.
The prize money is being donated by Foulston, Siedan, Powers and Eberhardt, a Wichita law firm, in honor of Robert C. Wichita, Seidan, Selkein, deceased members of the law firm.
Many delivery managers said they had a policy of not going to the police with reports
The winner of the competition will be awarded $400. There is a $200 prize for second place and a $100 awards for third and fourth places.
William E. Westerbeke, associate professor of law and instructor of the Moot Court Competition course, said he thought the competition was good experience because it prepares students for many of the legal challenges they face when they became practicing attorneys.
Brown once lost a warming oven worth $150 from his car when he was near a fraternity. He said he made it known through a friend in the house that he wanted the oven back and would ask no questions. It was returned to him.
Stealing just the pizza from inside a delivery car is a theft the managers agree is defrauding.
McLees said it isn't as bad now as it was three or four years ago.
Westerbeke said many students needed practice in public speaking, improving writing skills and experience with debate. He said the real courtroom procedures as possible.
MARSHALL SAID that the major cause of pizza theft in many cases was practical joking and that planned thefts weren't as common any more.
All second-year law students enrolled in the Moot Competition course wrote an analysis and argued the case in a series of courts before the four finalists were chosen
Luffman said that in her experience it had rarely happened.
Locking delivery vehicle doors is the main prevention against pizza thefts.
"Lock the cars, every time you get out of them. Lock 'em. " Marshall tells his drivers.
McLees said, "There aren't many thefts any more, probably about once a year now. Maybe we're watching the trucks a little closer."
Brown tells his drivers that if they go in to deliver a pizza and someone tells them, 'Hang on. Ive got to upgait to get some cars; they should be watching their vehicles.
"I PEOPLE see a delivery truck, it's the "will of ripping it." Brown said. "They don't care. They want to win."
Brown related one incident where the thieves must have had a hunger for both the lumber and the gold.
Four University of Kansas second-year law students will compete in the KU Moot Court Competition at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
Stephen Harris and Daniel Lyons, Kansas City, Kan., and Joel Goldman and David Smith were selected as finalists by a panel of three law school faculty members. The finalists were chosen on the basis of an argumentative analysis they presented in a case concerning a complex legal problem.
i we had people rip off the pizza and call the people that ordered it to say, "Hey, thanks for ordering that pizza, it was really good."
4 law students in Moot finals
"I called the people that originally ordered the pizza to tell them it had been delivered."
"That was the worst thing that's happened. That was really embarrassing," he said.
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Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stairwix said yesterday that the recently revealed 23 per cent increase in reported city crimes from 1975 wasn't as dramatic as it sounded.
Stanwick said that part of the increase reflected a 9 per cent nationwide rise in reported crimes in the FBI's 1975 Uniform Crime Reports, issued last week.
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ALTHOUGH THE local 123 per cent figure compares unfavorably with the average 9 per cent increase reported by other cities in New York, the Starksville said, city crime isn't really so.
He said the way of categorizing and reporting crimes for the FBI crime reports had a lot to do with the increases in aggravated assaults and burglaries.
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rose sharply because city police included misdemeanor assaults in the same category for the first time. Similarly, burglaries increased in part because thefts from cars were included in burglary statistics instead of in a separate category.
STANWIX SAID he thought citizens were also becoming more willing to report crimes to the police, which affected the statistics. He noted the example of rape victims being more willing to cooperate with police since steps had been taken to insure their rights. The number of reported rapes in Lawrence rose 25 per cent.
before. They cleared 11.7 per cent of the reported crimes, a 4 per cent drop from
Stanwick explained that most unsolved crimes were crimes against property where there were no witnesses and very few, if any, clues.
"WeEVE BEEN DEN doing a lot better already this year," Stanix said. "We've cleared about 40 or 50 burglaries with just a few arrests."
He said that the department was considering putting extra patrol officers on duty during the peak crime hours between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. to combat the rising crime
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