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7 FOOD DELIVERY HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: So I've been a delivery driver for about three years
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: ever since the start of the pandemic. It's a lot
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: more stressful than people think and I've dealt with several
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: different customers, but this one takes the prize. It was
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: a Thursday and I had been doing Uber Eats orders
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: for people who just preferred to stay home. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, I'd do orders until really late in order
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  Speaker 1: to keep the cash flowing. Since this was around the
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  Speaker 1: time where these delivery apps really started to take off,
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  Speaker 1: I took advantage of it and worked both Uber Eats
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  Speaker 1: and DoorDash. On this particular day, I had been using
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  Speaker 1: Uber Eats. Not before long, I had received one order
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  Speaker 1: from a house that wasn't too far away, and the
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  Speaker 1: order was pretty big, which basically meant an extra tip.
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  Speaker 1: I drive to the given restaurant, obtain the order, and
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  Speaker 1: drive the 10-minute drive to the given address. On this day,
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: it happened to be raining, and one thing I've always
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  Speaker 1: hated was driving in the rain. But I had to
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  Speaker 1: make my money somehow. It's about 4 in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and as I'm driving, I turn into the road where
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  Speaker 1: the house was. Now, in order to get to this house,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to go down this narrow pathway that cuts
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  Speaker 1: straight into a wooded area. To say the least, it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much a well-hidden path unless you accidentally stumbled
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  Speaker 1: upon it or knew where you were going. I pull
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  Speaker 1: onto this dirt road, driving as slowly as I can,
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  Speaker 1: and pull up to a small one-storied house. At the
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  Speaker 1: front of this house was a man sitting in his
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  Speaker 1: rocking chair, listening to the rain. I get out of
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  Speaker 1: my car and he gets up to come help me
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  Speaker 1: with the food. At first, he genuinely seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant guy. He looked like your typical redneck, but he
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  Speaker 1: was respectful and apologized for the confusion of his location.
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  Speaker 1: I had said that it wasn't a problem and to
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  Speaker 1: have a nice day. Before I was about to get
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  Speaker 1: back in my car, he then asks if I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to come inside to try some pastries he had made earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I politely decline and tell him I had to get
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  Speaker 1: back to doing orders. However, he didn't even seem to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge my response and simply insisted that I go inside
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  Speaker 1: with him. Once again, I declined, telling him I was
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  Speaker 1: sorry and that I'm sure they were good. No matter
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  Speaker 1: how many times I said no, he'd always make attempts
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  Speaker 1: for me to agree, even going as far as raising
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  Speaker 1: my tip. This time, I was visibly annoyed, but still
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  Speaker 1: kept my composure while giving him a firm no. I
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  Speaker 1: then take out my phone, pretending I was on a
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  Speaker 1: phone call with another customer. This thankfully made him stop
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  Speaker 1: asking me, causing him to go inside with his food.
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  Speaker 1: When he did, I hop back into my car, start
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  Speaker 1: my engine, and sped off. As I'm driving back down
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  Speaker 1: this narrow road, I then see him speedwalking after my
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  Speaker 1: car from my rearview mirror. Now, if the story had
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  Speaker 1: ended there, it wouldn't be scary. But this story comes
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  Speaker 1: with a very unsettling twist. That night when I had
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  Speaker 1: gotten home, my girlfriend and I had sat down on
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  Speaker 1: the couch watching the news. At one point, there was
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  Speaker 1: a chilling news report about a man in the area
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  Speaker 1: attempting to lure kids into his truck. As much as
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  Speaker 1: I hate to say it, we lived in an area
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't so great so stuff like this did happen occasionally.
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  Speaker 1: But when this news report showed the person responsible, I
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  Speaker 1: almost spit out the water I was drinking. On my
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  Speaker 1: TV was the same man I had taken the delivery
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  Speaker 1: order from, causing me to go absolutely hysterical. He had
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  Speaker 1: the same face, same beard, and the same hair. I
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  Speaker 1: just knew it was him. Turns out, he was arrested
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  Speaker 1: shortly after I had delivered his food. After all, I
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  Speaker 1: knew there was something off about that man. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: did I end up being correct. This happened when I
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  Speaker 1: was 19 years old when I was a sophomore in college.
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  Speaker 1: My parents had just started making me pay for my things,
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  Speaker 1: as they felt I was getting too old for them
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  Speaker 1: to be paying. This included things such as food, bills, items,
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  Speaker 1: and other things like that. While they still took care
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  Speaker 1: of the house bills, it was really expensive to pay
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  Speaker 1: for all of my stuff. I had a small part-time
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  Speaker 1: job at my college, but them paying $ 10 an hour
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  Speaker 1: wasn't enough to keep me satisfied. In other words, I
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  Speaker 1: needed to find another job. I lived in a small
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  Speaker 1: town in Ohio, so there weren't many openings available. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: my friend who was an athlete at the time had
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  Speaker 1: told me about this new app called DoorDash. He explained
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  Speaker 1: that he did well from it and that it was
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  Speaker 1: very easy money, with no job and nothing to do.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to do delivery until I could find a
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  Speaker 1: stable job. For the first few weeks, I got absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I assumed it had been because I was new to DoorDash,
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  Speaker 1: and that was why. As time progressed, however, I got
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  Speaker 1: assigned to take more orders, which really increased pay. One night,
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  Speaker 1: I was home alone, bored out of my mind, with
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do. Being productive, I decided to do a
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  Speaker 1: few orders and possibly make a few bucks for the night.
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  Speaker 1: It was around 9pm and I had only gotten done
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: about 5 orders before I was ready to call it
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  Speaker 1: a night. However, that was when another delivery option became
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  Speaker 1: available and decided to take it. The drive wasn't too
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  Speaker 1: far and the person had ordered a lot of food
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  Speaker 1: which meant the possibility of a bigger tip. Long story short,
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  Speaker 1: I get the food and drive to the house when
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  Speaker 1: I get a phone call from the person who placed
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  Speaker 1: the order. He had told me, in what seemed like
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: an anxious tone, that he had made the mistake by
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  Speaker 1: marking the option to leave the order at the door
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  Speaker 1: and that he preferred it to be handed. He also
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that he was alone and just wanted to talk
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: as he needed, quote, human communication. Okay, so this kind
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  Speaker 1: of set up a little bit of a red flag
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  Speaker 1: as I wasn't sure why it even mattered. Being dumb
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  Speaker 1: and not thinking too much into it, I tell him
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  Speaker 1: that it was no problem and within minutes I pull
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  Speaker 1: up to the driveway. Now, his driveway is a very
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  Speaker 1: long stretch of gravel road through a few trees which
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  Speaker 1: made it even more sketchy. The very second I pull in,
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  Speaker 1: I see him in front of his garage waving a
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  Speaker 1: fire axe around. I felt a chill run down my
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  Speaker 1: spine as I saw this and rolled down my window,
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  Speaker 1: telling him that if he wanted his food that he'd
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  Speaker 1: have to come get it himself. He replies with something
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  Speaker 1: along the lines of, No, no, that's okay. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be more scared than you already are. I
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  Speaker 1: tell him that I'm not getting out of the car
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  Speaker 1: and that if he wanted it to come get it.
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  Speaker 1: He does not like it when I say that and
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  Speaker 1: starts charging at my car with the axe in hand.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately hit the gas and drive out of there
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  Speaker 1: as fast as I could. Thankfully, he didn't manage to
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  Speaker 1: catch up to me or hurt me in any way.
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  Speaker 1: I cancelled the DoorDash order and called the police explaining everything.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if they took action or not. But
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  Speaker 1: either way, I reported the incidents at DoorDash and quit
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: right then. Anyway, that's my story, and I hope you
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  Speaker 1: can learn from it, and to always trust your gut. So,
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: this happened the day before Halloween, and I'm still on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of my seat as I write this. For reference,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a female. currently 24 and live in a small
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  Speaker 1: town outside of Omaha, Nebraska. The town I lived in
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  Speaker 1: is known to be very safe with a population of
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  Speaker 1: about 5,000 people, meaning bad things don't happen here. It's
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  Speaker 1: a nice little community and it even had its own
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  Speaker 1: park and signature restaurants and shops. I have lived in
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  Speaker 1: this town my whole life and never once had a
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  Speaker 1: reason to feel afraid, However, that would all change in
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  Speaker 1: just one night. It was the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: and I had just come home from a friend's party
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  Speaker 1: really tired. Wanting to go to bed, but also really hungry,
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  Speaker 1: I decided I'd figure out what I could eat. Now,
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  Speaker 1: one thing you have to know about me is that
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  Speaker 1: I could never sleep on an empty stomach. With little
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  Speaker 1: to no motivation to cook anything, I decided to order
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  Speaker 1: a few things from McDonald's via DoorDash. I hardly used it,
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  Speaker 1: but it was convenient for times like these when I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to cook anything. Living in the middle of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: I knew it would take a while for a Dasher
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  Speaker 1: to deliver my food. To kill some time, I started
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: on some homework and watched a few YouTube videos while
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  Speaker 1: waiting for my food. About 30 minutes go by and
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  Speaker 1: I get a notification from DoorDash letting me know that
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  Speaker 1: the Dasher was approaching. Relieved, I go outside where I
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  Speaker 1: was greeted to a man in his car that had
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  Speaker 1: my food. He politely gives it to me and even
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  Speaker 1: makes sure it was the correct order and tells me
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  Speaker 1: to have a nice night. I thank him for the
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  Speaker 1: order and leave him an extra tip as a token
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  Speaker 1: of my respect. He then drives off and I go
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  Speaker 1: inside to finish my homework while I ate my dinner
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  Speaker 1: until it was time for bed. After about an hour
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  Speaker 1: or so of rolling around in my bed trying to
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  Speaker 1: get comfortable, I finally manage to fall asleep. Suddenly, the
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  Speaker 1: sound of heavy knocking at the front door abruptly woke
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  Speaker 1: me up. Thinking it was maybe my parents or possibly
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  Speaker 1: my older brother coming home, I put on my slippers
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  Speaker 1: and go out to the front to look. Standing on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the door was the DoorDash delivery
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  Speaker 1: man staring at my Ring Doorbell camera with this creepy smile.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying all these sorts of weird phrases while
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  Speaker 1: pacing back and forth around my patio. I ask him
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  Speaker 1: if he needed help and he responds in this raspy
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  Speaker 1: voice saying that he wanted to thank me for the
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  Speaker 1: tip and wanted to come in to chat. I tell
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  Speaker 1: him that it was my pleasure but that I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: let him in as I was sleeping. However, he disregarded
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  Speaker 1: my answer and started persuading me as to why I
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  Speaker 1: should let him in. At this point, he's clearly not
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  Speaker 1: taking no for an answer, and I told him to
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  Speaker 1: please leave my property before I called 911. His joyful,
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  Speaker 1: cheerful face then suddenly changed drastically into anger. Then, as
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  Speaker 1: if things couldn't get any worse, he starts to form
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  Speaker 1: this really creepy grin and begins to laugh out loud hysterically.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, he also made various death threats
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: towards me while basically pounding on my door. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: can't show you the whole video, but here's a picture
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  Speaker 1: of what he looked like taken from my ring doorbell camera.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I saw, clear as day, standing right outside
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  Speaker 1: of my driveway. I tell him that I'm calling the police,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what made him finally back off and
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  Speaker 1: drive away. Needless to say, I reported the incident to
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  Speaker 1: DoorDash and called the sheriff just to be safe. From
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  Speaker 1: what I heard, DoorDash had removed him from doing deliveries
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  Speaker 1: and police were able to make an arrest. I'm still
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: not sure if I'd be writing this had I opened
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  Speaker 1: the door. So, I've been a Dasher for DoorDash ever
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  Speaker 1: since it came out in 2013. I've basically made a
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  Speaker 1: living off it, doing deliveries almost every day and making
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  Speaker 1: bank by doing it. While there have been some pretty
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: shady encounters throughout my years of DoorDash, this story takes
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  Speaker 1: the cake. My girlfriend and I had just attended a
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  Speaker 1: concert and we were on our way back to her
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  Speaker 1: house to go drop her off. I drop her off
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  Speaker 1: and kiss her goodnight, and with enough time to spare,
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  Speaker 1: I decide I'd go do some orders to make some
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  Speaker 1: extra cash. Doing deliveries for a while might seem like
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  Speaker 1: a hassle, but it's really easy once it starts to
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  Speaker 1: grow on you. Within a few minutes, I received an
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  Speaker 1: order to go pick up from KFC. However, the problem
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  Speaker 1: was that whoever placed the order barely met the delivery radius.
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  Speaker 1: I sighed, but said screw it and did the order.
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  Speaker 1: Long story short, I pick up the food, put it
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  Speaker 1: in the car, and drove the 30 minute drive to
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  Speaker 1: the address. My GPS led to the more rural side
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  Speaker 1: of town. I hated this part of my city as
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: it's a very sketchy area with the type of people
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  Speaker 1: you didn't want to meet. You get the type of
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  Speaker 1: place I mean. Long story short, I pull up to
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  Speaker 1: the house my GPS took me to, and it's this old,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: rundown-looking house that basically looked abandoned. The lights were off,
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  Speaker 1: and there wasn't even a car in the driveway. While
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  Speaker 1: all of this seemed like one big red flag, I
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: couldn't bail on the order, so I very hesitantly approach
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  Speaker 1: the door with the food. I'm about halfway to the
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  Speaker 1: door when it surprisingly opens and a woman steps out.
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  Speaker 1: She wore what seemed like a nightgown and looked as
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  Speaker 1: if she had just gotten out of a shower. I
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  Speaker 1: continue walking and attempt to hand her the food when
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  Speaker 1: one of her iced teas falls out and spills all
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  Speaker 1: over the driveway. The look of sheer anger on her
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  Speaker 1: face said it all and I apologized telling her I'd
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  Speaker 1: pay for it and that I could go back to
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  Speaker 1: get her another one. However, this didn't seem to face
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  Speaker 1: her as she began to yell in my face, telling
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  Speaker 1: me how I couldn't do my job right, that DoorDash
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  Speaker 1: hired lazy people, etc. I simply told her that it
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: was an accident and that I'd be more than happy
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  Speaker 1: to replace it. All of a sudden, she went back
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  Speaker 1: inside and came out ten seconds later carrying a pistol.
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  Speaker 1: She aims it at me, and I drop the order,
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  Speaker 1: get in my car, and just go. Thankfully, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear any gunfire, which either indicated that she only did
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: it to scare me, or that it was a fake gun.
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  Speaker 1: I still sometimes door dash every now and then, but
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  Speaker 1: still got a part-time job to support myself. This just
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  Speaker 1: goes to show you that everything you basically do in
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: life is dangerous. When I was 17, I worked at
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  Speaker 1: a pizza chain as a part-time job in Iowa City, Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Being a teen with not much in my life, I
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  Speaker 1: had mostly worked the night shifts alongside my other co-worker.
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  Speaker 1: It would stay busy well into the day and would
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  Speaker 1: start to die down come evenings. This was around the
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  Speaker 1: time where people were simply too tired to come and
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  Speaker 1: get food and preferred to just order it. I won't
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  Speaker 1: disclose any of my colleagues' information, so I'll just call
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  Speaker 1: my co-worker, Jared. Jared was a bit older than me,
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  Speaker 1: who was mainly placed in charge of making the pizzas
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  Speaker 1: while I was the one delivering them. On this night,
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  Speaker 1: it had just been me and him. It was already
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  Speaker 1: past 10, and we were getting ready to close when
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  Speaker 1: the phone rang. I answered it, and right away, I
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  Speaker 1: hear someone on the other end an older lady requesting
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  Speaker 1: a large pepperoni. I was annoyed as we were about
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  Speaker 1: to close and I really did not feel like driving.
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  Speaker 1: She had given me the address, which thankfully wasn't too far,
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  Speaker 1: and because it was a single pie, I'd be in
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  Speaker 1: and out. Thankfully, Jared had made a pepperoni pizza and
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't deliver it due to a cancellation, so he just
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  Speaker 1: told me to take that one instead. I hop into
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  Speaker 1: my car and drive a few miles down near the interstate. Now,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: this interstate wasn't very popular, and it was also somewhat unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: This was mainly due to the fact that it had
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  Speaker 1: been surrounded by forest on the opposite sides of it.
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  Speaker 1: Driving through these roads at night with nobody around is
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  Speaker 1: enough to creep anyone out. After all, I did live
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  Speaker 1: in the rural part of my city, which only added
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  Speaker 1: to the creepiness. Anyway, I'm driving down the road when
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I see something up ahead on the side of the grass.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: As I drive closer, I realize it's a man waving
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: his arms up in the air, attempting to flag me down. Now,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I would have just drove by him, but earlier that week,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I had heard the phrase, character is what you do
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  Speaker 1: when no one is looking. And for whatever reason, that
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  Speaker 1: was the night I decided that I was a man
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  Speaker 1: of character. Huge mistake. I pull over slowly and roll
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  Speaker 1: down my window just a tad before asking him if
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  Speaker 1: he needed help. Right away, he starts rambling on about
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: how he was taking his dog for a walk when
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it ran off into the woods. He then offers me
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: $ 300 if I could help him find his dog as
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: it was near and dear to him. Almost immediately, alarms
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: start going off in my head as he's telling his story. 1.
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  Speaker 1: Who walks their dog in the middle of an interstate? 2.
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  Speaker 1: If he did have a dog, why is he walking
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  Speaker 1: it at this time of night? 3. The forest area
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  Speaker 1: is barricaded by wired fences, so there's no way the
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  Speaker 1: dog would have just jumped over it. I might have
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: been naive, but I wasn't born yesterday. I apologize, telling
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  Speaker 1: him I'd be unable to, as I had to deliver
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: this pizza and that it couldn't be late. However, he
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: disregarded what I had said and basically tried pressuring me
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  Speaker 1: into helping him. I tell him no once again. Just
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: as he was about to say something, I hear, clear
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  Speaker 1: as day, a blood-curdling scream from the woods calling for help.
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  Speaker 1: From my point of view, it sounded like a woman's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: cry for help. It was then when I had looked
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  Speaker 1: at this person who now had this menacing glare. He
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: looks around for a brief second, leans in toward my car,
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  Speaker 1: and tells me to leave in a more upset tone.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Not giving it a second thought, I speed down the
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  Speaker 1: road not looking back. The rest of my delivery went smoothly.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but I still couldn't shake the feeling off of what
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: had happened. I reported my encounter to the police, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I was later told that they had searched the area,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: but had found no sign of anyone. The next day,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I had gone back to my job and quit right
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: then and there. No more late night deliveries for me.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Till this day, I'm still not sure what I encountered
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  Speaker 1: that night. I'm not sure if it was someone that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: really did lose their dog or something much worse.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Nate and I was around 15 years
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  Speaker 2: old when this happened. My family and I had lived
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  Speaker 2: in a small town right outside of Nashville, Tennessee. I
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  Speaker 2: attended school at a private institution and was definitely no
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  Speaker 2: popular kid. I had a group of friends, but there
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  Speaker 2: were only two in the group who I really considered
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  Speaker 2: as real friends. They've always had my back, and we
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  Speaker 2: would even go to each other's houses on Fridays. One night,
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  Speaker 2: my parents were out of state for a work event,
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  Speaker 2: and being the rebellious kid I was, I had both
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  Speaker 2: my friends over for a movie night. It was me,
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  Speaker 2: my good friend Ryan, and my other friend Mike, along
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  Speaker 2: with my dog Bruce who we all knew and adored.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce was a big German shepherd who had the personality
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  Speaker 2: of a teddy bear and was very friendly. When they arrived,
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  Speaker 2: our first move was to help ourselves to my dad's
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  Speaker 2: stock of booze he kept in his closet. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: were crazy kids, and if we were to get caught,
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  Speaker 2: it would have been worth it. We spent the next
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  Speaker 2: few hours playing video games and watching the hit new
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  Speaker 2: season of Stranger Things. As we're about halfway into one
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  Speaker 2: of the episodes... The three of us hear an unexpected
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  Speaker 2: knock at the door. The three of us looked confused,
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  Speaker 2: as we weren't expecting any more visitors. I got up
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  Speaker 2: from the couch to go to the door, expecting it
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  Speaker 2: to be my parents, possibly returning home early. Standing there
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  Speaker 2: on the porch was a Domino's delivery pizza man carrying
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  Speaker 2: a single large pie. He gives us a smile and says, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: large pepperoni, paid for online. we all look at each
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  Speaker 2: other as we hadn't ordered any pizza. However, the three
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  Speaker 2: of us are suckers for pizza and we gladly take
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  Speaker 2: it off his hands. Being a bunch of teens, we
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  Speaker 2: weren't going to give up on a free pizza. However,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan being the good Samaritan he was, had gotten us
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  Speaker 2: to agree that we shouldn't just eat someone else's food.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, we decided it was the right thing
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  Speaker 2: to do and so we left the pizza on the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen table and called the nearest Domino's We tell them
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  Speaker 2: that there had been a mistake and that we received
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  Speaker 2: an unordered pizza. They ask for my address, and when
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  Speaker 2: I tell them, they say that they hadn't gotten any
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  Speaker 2: orders from that part of town all day. On top
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  Speaker 2: of that, they had also pointed out that my location
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  Speaker 2: barely met their delivery radius. We confirmed to them several
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  Speaker 2: times that it was indeed a Domino's pizza. They told
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  Speaker 2: us they would check around and call us back if
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  Speaker 2: they had found anything. and if they found nothing, we
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  Speaker 2: could just go ahead and eat it. We give them
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  Speaker 2: about 10 minutes to call us back and fix ourselves
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  Speaker 2: a few snacks in the meantime. We head back into
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen and was shocked by what we found. Bruce
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  Speaker 2: had stuffed his face into the pizza box and had
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  Speaker 2: eaten nearly half of the pizza. As funny as it was,
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  Speaker 2: we knew that we had been in hot water if
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  Speaker 2: this really was a mistake. Ryan goes to throw the
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  Speaker 2: pizza in the trash and we finish our show while
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  Speaker 2: eating our snacks. About 30 minutes later, I started to
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  Speaker 2: notice that Bruce had started to become noticeably distressed. He
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  Speaker 2: had been whimpering and crying and would frequently begin losing
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  Speaker 2: his balance. After a few minutes of checking to see
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  Speaker 2: what was wrong with him, it didn't take long to
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  Speaker 2: realize that he was extremely ill. Not wanting to wait
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  Speaker 2: any longer, We all carry him and find a nearby
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  Speaker 2: emergency vet. We'd thankfully find one and rush him in
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  Speaker 2: there as soon as we could. Because this was later
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  Speaker 2: in the night, the vet had taken him home almost
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  Speaker 2: immediately to get tested on. According to the vet, he
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: was displaying unusual symptoms and behavior. Upon running a few
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  Speaker 2: more tests, they had found something that nearly turned our stomachs.
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  Speaker 2: There had been several traces of strychnine found in Bruce's system.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very dangerous poison, mainly used for killing rodents.
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  Speaker 2: If consumed, this can ultimately kill you in about 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out that the cheese on the pizza had
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  Speaker 2: been laced with it. My parents had to come home
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  Speaker 2: right away when they found out, and we had told
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  Speaker 2: the police everything. We even tried describing the guy who
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  Speaker 2: had given us the pizza, but nothing came of it.
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  Speaker 2: Because he had looked like any ordinary pizza delivery person,
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  Speaker 2: There was no way to accurately describe what he looked like.
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  Speaker 2: There had been no reports in the area of other
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  Speaker 2: people receiving a poisoned pizza. The good news was that
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  Speaker 2: Bruce did thankfully survive with proper treatment. However, if we
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  Speaker 2: would have waited just 10 minutes later, chances are he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have made it. If you ever get food deliveries
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  Speaker 2: to your house that you never ordered, call the company
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  Speaker 2: it was from to confirm. It might just save your life.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: When I was 18, I started doing DoorDash as a
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  Speaker 1: side hustle to support my family and I. Other than
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  Speaker 1: putting a crap ton of miles on your car, it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty chill job to say the least. One night,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing deliveries as usual when I got an
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  Speaker 1: order from a local food chain not too far. To
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  Speaker 1: cut to the chase, I get the food and drop
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  Speaker 1: it off at the given address and this was when
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  Speaker 1: shit went down. After dropping the food off, I got
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  Speaker 1: a phone call from the person who ordered only to
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  Speaker 1: hear heavy breathing. After saying hello several times, I was
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  Speaker 1: about to hang up when someone on the other end says,
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  Speaker 1: You'll find a surprise when you get home. They then
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  Speaker 1: hung up and I drive over to my apartment to
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  Speaker 1: find the door cracked open. In fact, the whole apartment
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  Speaker 1: room had been ransacked. Tables turned over, furniture broken, and
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  Speaker 1: glass shattered everywhere. This incident still leaves me in shock
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: as it still doesn't make sense. Even today, police were
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  Speaker 1: never able to figure out if it actually was the
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  Speaker 1: person who ordered It wasn't long until after where I
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  Speaker 1: quit door dashing.