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Using Grubhub, a six-year-old from Michigan places a $1,000 meal order.
Before going to bed, six-year-old Mason Stonehouse played on his father’s phone and ordered food from Grubhub for nearly $1,000. Finally, around nine o’clock on Saturday night, the food began to arrive at the family’s Chesterfield Township residence near Detroit. And it didn’t stop.
The Ring camera footage from the Stonehouse household shows numerous deliveries knocking on the door. Keith, Mason’s father, was perplexed until he understood what had happened.
“I asked, ‘What’s happening?’ Then, according to an interview with CNN station WDIV-TV, his bewildered father asked a meal delivery driver, “Why are you giving me food?” After telling the TV station that Mason was “going to town” with the Grubhub app earlier that evening, it finally dawned on him that he had given his kid access to his phone.
Among the many foods Mason ordered were shrimp, salads, shawarma, chicken pita wraps, sandwiches, chili cheese fries, and many ice creams orders. Keith received a fraud notice from his bank after placing a $400 pizza purchase because so much food was ordered.
Once he realized what had happened, his father tried calling the restaurants to cancel the orders, but they directed him to Grubhub. The leftover food was distributed to and consumed by neighbors.
