Pizza Nazi Busted for Allegedly Cutting Hole In Former Restaurant Wall, Stealing Oven

Whitney Aycock is not exactly known for being a reasonable man. The Rockaway Beach pizzeria owner had no problem telling customers who asked for a slice of pie to "fuck off" and he was busted last summer for allegedly growing weed behind his restaurant, Whit's End. (As he was being led away in handcuffs, he insisted that it was either lemon verbena or catnip). Things only got worse for the self-described Pizza Nazi in December, when he was arrested again for cutting a hole in the wall of his now-former restaurant so that he and an accomplice could steal his pizza oven.

Read that sentence again, and tell me it doesn't sound like a treatment for the next Coen Brothers screenplay. But no, it's actually Aycock's (alleged) real life. According to DNAinfo, he and a friend cut a window out of a wall at Whit's End to enter the building, smoothly covered the surveillance camera to hide their readily identifiable identities, then used a forklift to move the Stefano Ferrara-brand domed brick pizza oven onto a waiting truck. (Those Ferrara ovens can cost upwards of $16,000, depending on the model).

The missing oven—and the massive hole in the building—were discovered the next day, but it took over a month before Aycock was arrested. The oven has yet to be located.

The owner of the building where Whit's End was located claims that the oven and the other fixtures in the restaurant belong to him. "It was not his oven, it was never his oven," Jamie Wiseman told DNAinfo. "We purchased and supplied that oven and provided evidence of that to police."

Aycock and his attorney disagree, insisting that the oven and everything else were the chef's own property. On January 4, a judge ruled in favor of Wiseman, who had filed a civil suit against Aycock over access to the shuttered restaurant before the Great Oven Caper took place. According to the judge, the oven was Wiseman's.

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A photo posted by Whit's End (@whitsendrockaway) on Jan 6, 2017 at 10:08am PST

On Friday, the Whit's End Instagram account posted a picture of a pizza oven on a flatbed truck, wrapped carefully in plastic and protected by a wooden cage. "Attention Whitney Aycock," a shipping label read.