One garbage pie is coming right up!
A New York City delivery driver was caught tossing a pizza pie back into the box after it fell out onto the street last week, according to a disgusting viral video.”Whoever [order] this is, he just dropped it on the floor, ya’ll,” a stunned Nataysha Jernigan said as she filmed the deliveryman nestle the pie back into the box and secure it to the back of his electric bike.
“He picked it up from there, and now he is going to deliver it still,” said Jernigan, 35, pointing to the crusty pavement at Second Avenue and 106th Street on the Upper East Side.
“I am about to stop ordering,” she stated, before adding: “Look at this, he do not even care … devious!”
Jernigan, a medical assistant from Harlem, was driving home on March 28 after enjoying the spring weather in Central Park when she noticed the pie lying face down on the road.
“I was like, ‘Sir, your order’s on the floor,'” she told the Post.
However, he pretended not to understand her and “picked it up so fast and put it back in the box,” Jernigan said. “Like, that is f-king gross!”
She has not ordered takeout since and will only order from restaurants that use stickers to ensure the food is not tampered with from now on, she said.
She wishes she had captured the pie on the ground in her video, which was reposted by the New Yorkers Instagram page, but it went viral on social media, with over 140,000 views.
“The streets needed to see this!” one appreciative Instagram user wrote.
“This is why I do not order from Uber Eats or DoorDash… “I will pick up my food,” another person said. Another added, “That is why we only do pickups.”
Others discussed their delivery nightmares. One woman reported seeing a delivery driver with orders on his back enter a restroom. “I was just shocked,” she wrote. Last year, The Post reported on a Brooklyn pizza deliveryman who was caught eating toppings from a pie he was delivering.
Some people gave the UES employee the benefit of the doubt, claiming that he could have returned the pie to the shop and received a new one, while others pointed out that he could have simply left it on the ground and requested a refund for the customer or returned to get a replacement.
It was not clear which pizzeria or delivery service the man worked for.