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Pizza-Sniffing Bloodhound Thwarts Teen Thieves

Police: "Two male juveniles were found inside the garage eating pizza."
Photos via Rancho Cucamonga Police Department and Flickr user Marc Wathieu

Not only do pizza delivery drivers have to contend with car maintenance, insane customers, time pressures, and pizza temperatures dropping, but they have to also be on the lookout for beatings, robberies, and even machete attacks.

Now imagine that you're a delivery guy, it's midnight, you've got a car full of hot pies, and you're pulling up to an abandoned house in Rancho Cucamonga, California, as all of the above weigh heavily on you. Then, before you can deliver your bounty, you get hit over the head by a couple of teenagers who steal all of the pizzas in your arms and in your car—pizzas you alone were tasked with protecting.

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That was the very real and very unpleasant fate that awaited a Domino's driver earlier this week in San Bernardino County. As you probably already know, delivering pizzas for a living is a tough job; from the Philadelphia driver shot 14 times by police to the Newfoundland delivery guy who had his car and his Zakk Wylde CDs stolen (although the car—minus the CDs—was eventually returned).

But unlike a lot of sabotaged pizza delivery stories, this one ends with a bit of a silver lining. According to a statement from the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department, officers who arrived at the scene of the robbery quickly called for back-up. That's when Dare, a police bloodhound, showed up and followed the scent of the alleged assailants (and the pizza they had stolen) all the way to a house a mile away from the crime scene.

"Two male juveniles were found standing on the side of the home, and another two male juveniles were found inside the garage eating pizza," Rancho Cucamonga Police Department said in a statement on Facebook. "Through investigation, deputies located evidence linking two of the juveniles to the crime. The two male juveniles were transported and booked at the San Bernardino Juvenile Hall for strong-arm robbery."

Looks like it's case closed on this one, thanks to Dare. Let's hope he doesn't eat the evidence before trial.