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Like many of us, Justin Rybicki loves a good pizza.
But with what he’s been dealing with for the past six months, it would be understandable if he doesn’t crave pizza for quite a while.
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Pizza prank gone too far: Spruce Grove man harassed by being sent over $1K of pizza – Edmonton Journal
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The Spruce Grove man has been the victim of a pizza prankster, who has ordered more than $1,000 worth of pizzas to his home and his workplace, and Rybicki has been forced to deal with the wrath of angry delivery drivers and pizza store employees when he tells them he’s not the person ordering them.
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“The first one started on Nov. 19. I was getting ready to sit down with my family and have soup for supper when the door bell rang and it was a Pizza 73 delivery guy at the door with a bunch of pizzas,” said Rybicki.
“The pizza delivery guy got mad at me, and asked me what he was supposed to do with it, and I said, ‘I don;’t know, but I didn’t order $100 worth of pizza, so I’m not paying for it.’ ”
The pizza prankster didn’t stop after just once. They were just getting started.
Rybicki said it happened three days in a row after that and that’s when he filed his first police report.
And, when Rybicki called Pizza 73 and said to put them on their ban list and not accept any orders under his name, the prankster then switched it up and started ordering pizzas under Rybicki’s name from Domino’s Pizza.
“They took a month off, and then on Dec. 21, they started ordering from Domino’s,” said Rybicki.
RCMP suggested he change his email and all his passwords, but somehow the prankster got a hold of his new email, and the pranks have continued.
Rybicki said pizzas have been getting delivered to his house and his workplace at the Goodwill store in Spruce Grove, over and over again.
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“They’ve done this to me at least nine or 10 times so far, and they’ve wasted over $1,000 worth of pizza,” said Rybicki.
“I feel so bad for not just my situation, but it’s wasting the time of the delivery drivers and the businesses. They’re out of money and product.”
Rybicki said the last time the prankster struck was on March 26, when pizza from Domino’s was delivered to his house and his mother told the delivery driver to put Rybicki’s name on the company’s ban list.
Rybicki says he has no idea who is doing this to him. Whether it’s a former friend, or a current or past co-worker, but this whole childish prank has gone too far. It’s become harassment.
“What annoys me the most is I can’t do anything to stop it,” said Rybicki.
“In one of the instances, the delivery driver was trying to force me to pay for it, and after I explained the situation to him, he tried to tell me, that I need to make it stop. If I could, I would. Nobody wants to be dealing with something like this all the time.”
Rybicki said he used to be a relatively trusting person, but this whole experience has changed his way of thinking now.
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“Every day I check my bank account, and there is two-factor verification on all my accounts. I feel like, what are they going to try and do next?” said Rybicki.
RCMP weren’t able to find out who has been making these pizza orders after the initial complaint was filed, but Rybicki plans to follow up with police to let them know this has been going on for nearly six months.
Police say instances like this case are rare, and it’s not only Rybicki who is on the receiving end of this bad prank, the pizza delivery person and the business are affected too.
“Its unfortunate because the pizza place is out of money in this case, and for the victim, he must feel like why is he being targeted like this. It would be concerning for him as well,” said RCMP Const. Gina Slaney.
Rybicki said that his co-workers at Goodwill are very understanding of his situation and he’s never got into any kind of trouble when the orders of pizza have showed up at the door, and he’s having to deal with this frustrating situation constantly.
“My co-workers are like my second family. They all feel bad about it and understand what I’m dealing with,” said Rybicki.
Rybicki hopes that whoever behind this immature prank gets caught, and as for punishment, he has a few ideas of what he’d like to see handed out.
“I hope they get caught, and they have to pay back for all the pizza that’s gone to waste,” said Rybicki.
“On top of that, I hope they have to pay the amount back in money they’ve wasted on pizza and get it delivered to the homeless … that’s what I’d like to see.”
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CALGARY – TC Energy Corp. has lowered the estimated cost of its Southeast Gateway pipeline project in Mexico.
It says it now expects the project to cost between US$3.9 billion and US$4.1 billion compared with its original estimate of US$4.5 billion.
The change came as the company reported a third-quarter profit attributable to common shareholders of C$1.46 billion or $1.40 per share compared with a loss of C$197 million or 19 cents per share in the same quarter last year.
Revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 totalled C$4.08 billion, up from C$3.94 billion in the third quarter of 2023.
TC Energy says its comparable earnings for its latest quarter amounted to C$1.03 per share compared with C$1.00 per share a year earlier.
The average analyst estimate had been for a profit of 95 cents per share, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2024.
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BCE Inc. reported a loss in its latest quarter as it recorded $2.11 billion in asset impairment charges, mainly related to Bell Media’s TV and radio properties.
The company says its net loss attributable to common shareholders amounted to $1.24 billion or $1.36 per share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared with a profit of $640 million or 70 cents per share a year earlier.
On an adjusted basis, BCE says it earned 75 cents per share in its latest quarter compared with an adjusted profit of 81 cents per share in the same quarter last year.
“Bell’s results for the third quarter demonstrate that we are disciplined in our pursuit of profitable growth in an intensely competitive environment,” BCE chief executive Mirko Bibic said in a statement.
“Our focus this quarter, and throughout 2024, has been to attract higher-margin subscribers and reduce costs to help offset short-term revenue impacts from sustained competitive pricing pressures, slow economic growth and a media advertising market that is in transition.”
Operating revenue for the quarter totalled $5.97 billion, down from $6.08 billion in its third quarter of 2023.
BCE also said it now expects its revenue for 2024 to fall about 1.5 per cent compared with earlier guidance for an increase of zero to four per cent.
The company says the change comes as it faces lower-than-anticipated wireless product revenue and sustained pressure on wireless prices.
BCE added 33,111 net postpaid mobile phone subscribers, down 76.8 per cent from the same period last year, which was the company’s second-best performance on the metric since 2010.
It says the drop was driven by higher customer churn — a measure of subscribers who cancelled their service — amid greater competitive activity and promotional offer intensity. BCE’s monthly churn rate for the category was 1.28 per cent, up from 1.1 per cent during its previous third quarter.
The company also saw 11.6 per cent fewer gross subscriber activations “due to more targeted promotional offers and mobile device discounting compared to last year.”
Bell’s wireless mobile phone average revenue per user was $58.26, down 3.4 per cent from $60.28 in the third quarter of the prior year.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2024.
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TORONTO – Canada Goose Holdings Inc. trimmed its financial guidance as it reported its second-quarter revenue fell compared with a year ago.
The luxury clothing company says revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 29 totalled $267.8 million, down from $281.1 million in the same quarter last year.
Net income attributable to shareholders amounted to $5.4 million or six cents per diluted share, up from $3.9 million or four cents per diluted share a year earlier.
On an adjusted basis, Canada Goose says it earned five cents per diluted share in its latest quarter compared with an adjusted profit of 16 cents per diluted share a year earlier.
In its outlook, Canada Goose says it now expects total revenue for its full financial year to show a low-single-digit percentage decrease to low-single-digit percentage increase compared with earlier guidance for a low-single-digit increase.
It also says it now expects its adjusted net income per diluted share to show a mid-single-digit percentage increase compared with earlier guidance for a percentage increase in the mid-teens.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 7, 2024.
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