A 6-year-old boy in Michigan was playing on his dad’s phone before bedtime and spent about $1,000 on Grubhub orders.
The food started coming to their home near Detroit around 9 pm Saturday night. And it kept coming.
Their Ring camera footage shows delivery after delivery coming to the door. The dad was confused, until he figure out what happened.
The boy ordered basically every food that ever existed, including shrimp, salads, shawarma, chicken pita wraps, sandwiches, chili cheese fries and multiple orders of ice cream. So much food was ordered that the dad’s bank sent him a fraud alert declining a $400 order of pizza.
His dad tried calling the restaurants to stop the orders once he figure out what happened, but they told him to contact Grubhub.
Grubhub said they reached out to the family about their boy’s “unexpected spending spree” and offered them $1,000 worth of Grubhub gift cards.
(The leftover food was shared with neighbors and eaten as leftovers.)
The parents turned the spending spree into a lesson by grabbing his piggy bank and started taking money out. Once the boy started seeing they money coming out, it sunk in. The boy won’t be having phone privileges for a while.
