A street in Los Angeles has been inundated with paid-for Uber Eats deliveries that locals say no one has ordered. Weird, right?
Residents along Range View Avenue in the Highland Park area have been receiving multiple orders per day including milkshakes, lattes, smoothies and chicken sandwiches from chains such as Starbucks and McDonald’s - despite never ordering them.
The orders started to pour in last month, with some locals saying they’d been sent as many as 40 deliveries.
One such recipient was Caroline Aguirre, who told Inside Edition: “I just started getting bags of Starbucks and McDonald’s deliveries on my front porch and I did not order them.”
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Caroline’s neighbour MJ Lat was also sent some.
“There would be times when it would be like five or six in a day, and then, like, two in a day, and then five the next day," she said.
It was a similar story for Morgan Currier who received 30 deliveries and William Neal who told the news outlet he received a whopping 40 deliveries.
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While free food might sound like a bit of a win, the unusual nature of the deliveries is enough to put some residents off.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Dean Sao said: “I don’t trust it — I’m throwing it out.
“I don’t know who’s doing it. We were joking at first: It must be Elon Musk — I don’t know who else could afford it.”
But while he might not be tucking into the orders, he doesn’t think it’s a particularly harmful prank.
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“I don’t think anybody has seen it as anything sinister — it’s just varying degrees of annoyance,” he added.
Meanwhile, Currier had an entirely different problem - she was sent consistently sent meat despite being a vegetarian.
She told The LA Times: “I’ve been getting 20-piece nuggets with sweet and sour sauce. What a waste... to send it to a vegetarian.
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“I had a friend who I would text: ‘Come on over and grab it'. And then even he said, ‘I can’t keep eating 20-piece chicken nuggets. I’ve reached my limit.’”
Residents have attempted to get to the bottom of the mystery by asking the delivery drivers who have sent the orders, but say they were unable to shed much light on it due to either not knowing or because the deliveries have been made using the names of other people.
Uber Eats told Inside Edition that it had ‘taken action’ against a number of accounts and that, for the time being at least, the deliveries have stopped.
Claire Reid