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Alert pizza delivery driver saves customer's life
WMC-TV ^ | 2/22/11 | Nick Kenney

Posted on 02/22/2011 4:15:07 PM PST by Track9

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A pizza delivery driver was called a hero Monday after she likely saved an elderly woman's life.

Before Monday's incident, most neighbors knew little about Memphis resident Jean Wilson, except that she's eaten pizza daily for the past three years.

"We make her pizza every day before she even calls, because we know she's going to call," delivery driver Susan Guy said.

Guy often delivers Wilson's regular order, one large pepperoni pizza, but recently workers at her restaurant noticed an unusual break in the pattern.

"She hadn't called in three days," Guy said. "My boss told me about it today."

Guy insisted to her boss that she be allowed to check on Wilson.

"He was like, 'Naw, you don't have to do that,' and I said, 'Yeah I do. Clock me out if that's what you gotta do,'" Guy said.

Guy drove to Wilson's house and knocked on her door, but no one answered. Then, she banged on Wilson's windows, but there was still no response. Running out of options, Wilson ran to neighbor Larry Comeaux's house for help.

(Excerpt) Read more at wmctv.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: deliverydriver; memphis; pizza; tennessee; tn
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To: Track9

Great, a reason to eat pizza every day!


21 posted on 02/22/2011 4:46:03 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Track9

I guess if you think about it for around $10-$15 a day you can have your meal delivered right you your house.


22 posted on 02/22/2011 5:01:55 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Why are public employee unions attacking taxpayers?)
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To: LibWhacker
Yep! Pizza.....We have it every week. But I also make it at home. I used to work at a Pizzaria in my early days and never got sick of it.
23 posted on 02/22/2011 5:05:02 PM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: nuconvert
she must have had pizza for lunch & dinner every day.

Boring, yes, but it works for me.........

24 posted on 02/22/2011 5:12:56 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Oh Magoo, you've done it again.....)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

My 88 year old MIL will eat ice cream when she won’t eat anything else. I tell her to eat all she wants.


25 posted on 02/22/2011 5:14:48 PM PST by tiki
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To: Track9

If she ate a pizza every day for the past three years, he could save her life by not delivering it to her anymore.


26 posted on 02/22/2011 5:16:47 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: nuconvert

Cold pizza and coffee is a fine breakfast, but I would have been dead years ago had I followed such a diet.


27 posted on 02/22/2011 5:17:19 PM PST by sixgunjer
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To: Track9

My question is, why did it take 3 days if they make her pizza before she orders each day? And the boss STILL tried to tell her not to bother with it...hmmph.


28 posted on 02/22/2011 5:39:42 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: Track9

Thanks for posting it. Good news, for once.

How sad, though, that this woman had no loved on to check on her. Or even a neighbor.


29 posted on 02/22/2011 5:43:22 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Bigg Red

loved on = loved one


30 posted on 02/22/2011 5:44:28 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Misterioso

“...,she owns an Italian Wolfhound that loves pepperoni.”

yep and her Irish Wolfhound loves potato pancakes!


31 posted on 02/22/2011 5:55:58 PM PST by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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To: Bigg Red

As the saying goes, God works in mysterious ways. Without getting too heavy or anything, this story reminded me of a Tolstoy parable.


32 posted on 02/22/2011 5:58:24 PM PST by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: nuconvert

from the story..”They soon learned that Wilson had fallen on Saturday, and couldn’t get over to a telephone to call for help. Investigators said it’s possible that her pizza-only diet may have saved her life.”

Maybe she could not get to the phone because she weighed 450 pounds from her pizza-only diet?


33 posted on 02/22/2011 5:58:57 PM PST by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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To: TxDas

Maybe she could not get to the phone because she weighed 450 pounds from her pizza-only diet?”

I wondered how much she weighed & if it had something to do with her fall, but I think if she weighed 450Lbs, she’d be ordering 2 large pizzas every day.


34 posted on 02/22/2011 6:04:27 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

One of my grandmothers lived to 90 on a diet of coffee, beer, cigarettes, and chocolate covered cherries.


35 posted on 02/22/2011 7:07:09 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: TxDas

You mean dogs don’t eat Paleo?


36 posted on 02/22/2011 7:13:15 PM PST by Misterioso (The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Nietszche)
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To: nuconvert

She didn’t look too overweight in the news video.


37 posted on 02/22/2011 7:15:22 PM PST by Misterioso (The noble soul has reverence for itself. - Nietszche)
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To: Track9

He works in mysterious ways, indeed.

Tolstoy? I just can’t remember his work except some of “War and Peace”. Sorry, it’s been about 45 years since I read him, so I will have to take your word. :)


38 posted on 02/23/2011 5:26:16 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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To: Bigg Red

If you ever get a chance, his short stories (10 to 20 pages) are visually richer and more satisfying than any movie out there. They were hugely popular when first published. Lots of Christian themes and are basically parables. Of course now they’re all collected and sold as one book.


39 posted on 02/23/2011 6:06:01 AM PST by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: Track9

Will definitely check them out. Thanks.


40 posted on 02/23/2011 10:27:46 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012)
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