Pizza delivery ends prison hostage standoff

[Elrohir]

Pizza delivery ends prison hostage standoff

Pizza delivery ends prison hostage standoff


SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Officials bought 15 pizzas to secure the release of a guard who had been held for 42 hours by inmates at an Australian top-security prison, police said Monday.

Twenty prisoners were involved in the standoff, which began Saturday when inmates occupied part of Risdon Prison on the southern island state of Tasmania, complaining about conditions in the aging institution and taking guard Ken Hannah hostage.

Hannah finally was released late Sunday night after authorities caved in to demands for pizza.

"The final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered," senior prisons official Graeme Barber said.

"We had held off in relation to that -- we obviously wanted the release of our staff member," he added. "Our staff member was negotiated out by the delivery of 15 pizzas."

The last prisoner involved in the siege gave himself up Monday. No one was injured.

The siege followed months of violence and unrest at Risdon, which holds one of Australia's most notorious convicts, Martin Bryant, who went on a shooting rampage at Tasmania's Port Arthur historic penal settlement in 1996, killing 35 people.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Well if you are hungry you got to eat.

 

[The Omega]

Give us pizza, or we kill the man!

 

[Dabomb18359]

No wonder pizza gets so much attention nowadays. I used to like the old fashioned pepperoni pizza from Dominoes or whereever but now the school only serves this s***ty crap that is only cheese with lots of grease dumped on it.

 

[North King]

No wonder pizza gets so much attention nowadays. I used to like the old fashioned pepperoni pizza from Dominoes or whereever but now the school only serves this s***ty crap that is only cheese with lots of grease dumped on it.

Yeah. You should hold them hostage.

 

[Lord Sankra]

Do it for the pepperonies!

 

[Volum]

I hope they atleas got some good home made pizza!

Made by my mother!

 

[blindside]

No wonder pizza gets so much attention nowadays. I used to like the old fashioned pepperoni pizza from Dominoes or whereever but now the school only serves this s***ty crap that is only cheese with lots of grease dumped on it.

Wow you must have really awful pizza if you consider Dominos good. Its the worst pizza you can get here.

 

[Bacon King]

School pizza is the only pizza worse than domino's. My school's pizza has cheesy crust, and it still sucks.

 

[rbis4rbb]

School pizza is 5% meat, 95% other pepperoni thrown on top of half melted cheese. The tomto sauce has been boiled to nonexistence.

 

[The Person]

At least nobody got hurt.

 

[FriendlyFire]

There was something like 20 people holed up in the visitors section for more then 48 hrs
Police had the place surrounded and were negosiating.

Oviously they ran out of food pretty quick

 

[Nobody]

your schools have pizza and you complain