For once, here's a pizza delivery crime story with a happy ending. East Harlem pizza deliveryman Assami Semde fought off two would-be slice muggers while making a delivery to an apartment building last Friday. Semde, a 6'4" native of Burkina Faso, pretended to put the pizzas down on the ground and then rose up and punched one of the gun-toting assailants, pushing him against an elevator.

Luckily this story ended well, with one of the suspects arrested, the pizza delivered hot, and Semde unharmed. But that's a far-too-infrequent outcome in delivery crime stories. In the story the New York Post ran about the encounter, Semde says he'd give up the pizzas next time.

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