Residents of Northeast Los Angeles have been baffled by a string of pay-as-you-go food deliveries popping up on their doorsteps despite the fact that they weren’t ordered.
Los Angeles Times reported this week that residents along Range View Avenue in Highland Park are getting deliveries of chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, cookies, coffee and more that they never ordered from food delivery services like Uber Eats.
Unsolicited deliveries began in February, and a handful of people told the Times that they often received multiple orders a day. It isn’t clear if the orders are a scam or a joke.
Residents say deliverers have been unable to supply much details about who’s placing orders because they either didn’t know or because deliveries use other people’s names.
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“Drivers at all times laugh on the situation,” said Range View resident Will Neal, a documentary filmmaker.
“It’s amazing what they’ll do with a pancake sandwich,” Neal added in a playful reference to the 4 uninvited McDonald’s McGriddles he received at his home on February 25 – the primary of 40 mysterious deliveries to his home.
Some residents ate the food, others threw it away, and still others donated it to local charities.
“I do not trust it – I’m throwing it out,” said Dean Sao, a carpenter at nearby Pasadena City College. “I do not know who does it. At first we joked: it must be Elon Musk – I do not know who else could afford it.”
Morgan Currier, which received 30 deliveries, said it asked the supplier to call the number related to the order and it was disconnected.
An Uber spokesperson told Fox Business that the corporate has launched an investigation into the source of the orders and has “taken motion” against multiple accounts.
The spokesman added that the corporate was monitoring orders to this part of Highland Park.