A hefty bill. Keith Stonehouse, an American living in Michigan, says his 6-year-old son, Mason, ordered $1,000 worth of food using his cell phone. The family has since received a gift card from the store chain, the Associated Press said Friday.
Jumbo prawns and cheese fries
Keith Stonehouse tells US media that he lent his son his smartphone on Saturday night to play a game before bed. But young Mason obviously had other ideas in mind.
At just 6 years old, he decides to check out the app GrubHub, a popular food delivery company in the United States. Having worked up an appetite, she placed an order at several restaurants.
Jumbo prawns, salads, shawarmas (a Lebanese sandwich), cheese fries, and a pita sandwich are delivered one after another to the Stonehouse home.
“It looked like a sketch”
Stunned, the father of the family claims not to understand what is happening to him at first. “The bell was ringing and it just kept coming, one car after another. (…) It looked like a sketch,” he told Michigan Live.
If at first he isn’t worried, his wife being the owner of a pastry shop, Kieth Stonehouse sees the deliveries happen and understands his son’s mistake. But it is too late: it is impossible to interrupt the shipment of orders already placed.
The unusual purchase, between different brands, ends up questioning the American bank. Keith Stonehouse receives an alert in the afternoon for suspected fraud by his bank. An order of 439 dollars (405 euros) of pizzas is thus automatically rejected.
Mason’s pocket money confiscated
“I’m having a bit of a hard time finding it funny right now, but I can have a little laugh with people. It’s a lot of money and it really came out of nowhere,” says the father.
The Michigan resident claims to have since traded with his son to try to reason with him and confiscated the $115 of pocket money he had. Not enough to unsettle the boy. “He found a coin on the ground and said he could start over,” says his father.
This misadventure reached the attention of GrubHub who offered a $1,000 gift card to the family. The story resonated so well in the United States that the Stonehouses might even appear in one of their commercials.
Source: BFM TV
