Girl banned from pizza orders after assault

Canadian Press
Aug. 11, 2005 10:33 AM

FERGUS, Ont. - A teenager who assaulted a delivery woman over a late pie was banned by a judge Wednesday from ordering pizza for a year.

"This is the first case of pizza rage I've ever heard," Justice Norman Douglas said.

As a term of probation, the 17-year-old girl is not allowed to "order or be a party to any order of delivery pizza" for the next 12 months.

The teen pleaded guilty to assaulting delivery woman Crystal Mills, 21, and to kicking Mills' car, causing $400 in damage.

Court heard Mills went to a Fergus house party to make a delivery on May 9.

Someone else at the party paid Mills for the pizza, but as she returned to her car, the accused, who was intoxicated and upset the pie was late, followed her and yelled at her.

Without warning, the girl punched Mills three times in the face and also kicked her car door. Mills was not injured in the attack.

Duty counsel Elizabeth Renfrew acknowledged the teen should not have been drinking at all because of her age, and that she engaged in uncharacteristic but "extremely inappropriate behaviour."

In addition to the no-pizza term, the girl was ordered to pay for the damages to Mills' car within the next six months, and to have no contact with the victim.