Posted on 02/03/2023 5:57:53 AM PST by Red Badger
This October 2022 photo provided by Kristin Stonehouse shows her son, Mason Stonehouse, 6, in Chesterfield, Mich. Mason Stonehouse used his father’s Grubhub account to order $1,000 worth of food delivered to his home on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. His father, Keith Stonehouse, was not aware his son was ordering the food and at first did nt understand why delivery people kept ringing his doorbell and leaving food. (Kristin Stonehouse via AP)AP CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of food from several restaurants last weekend, leading to a string of unexpected deliveries — and maybe a starring role in an ad campaign.
Keith Stonehouse said the food piled up quickly at his Detroit-area home Saturday night after he let his son, Mason, use his cellphone to play a game before bed. He said the youngster instead used his father's Grubhub account to order food from one restaurant after another.
The boy's mother, Kristin Stonehouse, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Grubhub has reached out to the family and offered them a $1,000 gift card. The company also is considering using the family in an online promotional campaign, she said. Grubhub officials did not immediately respond to a message from the AP seeking comment.
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That’s his allowance until he’s 18.
I never got an ‘allowance’.
Dad: Take out the trash...
Son: How much will you give me?
Dad: Ten..........5 from each hand!..................
More like the father needs some online safety classes on how to protect his account access.
Instead the family is being rewarded.
I want to know what he ordered. snails? mussels? crabs? brussel sprouts?
Back in the olden days, we were given paper and crayons. The worst we did was crayon up the walls... maybe.
Somebody’s grounded.
Mine was living and eating and living indoors…
I didn’t get an allowance either. You did what you were told to do, *or else*. You also ate everything on your plate without complaining, *or else*. I’m sure you know what *or else* meant.
a dozen eggs...
Grubhub wisely offered a $1,000 card to try to convert a security breech into a light chuckle and publicity for the brand. Smart.
Dad can probably get 80 cents on the dollar for the card on the market, or maybe Grubhub will buy it back at face value.
Chateaubriand?
Kobe Beef?
Wagyu Beef?
Eggs?...................
Should have a notification to his phone each time a charge is placed. Might have caught it sooner.
"There are children starving in India."
"Well, send them this!"........
I don't remember anything after that.
Until he’s 35...................
Yeah Dad’s a dolt.
Giving the kid attention for using what didn’t belong to him. The parents don’t punish, they just tell everybody and think it’s a fun chuckle.
Be careful. Junior has little reason not to keep doing this again, seeing as how everyone got such a kick out of it the first time. The first time it had been caught, that is.
The $1,000 gift card can be used to pay the bill the kid ran up.
The don’t want to outright pay the pill, because that would invite fraud in the future. This is a roundabout way to do it.
What a cute innocent looking little boy. It’s my belief he had no idea what he was doing nor any concept of all the money he blew with his purchase. In his mind it could just have been play time mimicking what adults do.
My point is kids this young should not be allowed anywhere near a computer or any other device until they are fully aware of what’s going on and the consequences. When I was growing up a person was not considered mature and responsible enough for many activities until 18 or 21. Telephone use was restricted.
Certainly a kid 6 years old is not old enough to be responsible for this purchase. The parents are, and so is society and our culture for normalizing this sort of thing.
There’s nothing funny about this, it’s just one more sign our culture is headed for the toilet.
Lol, you get it, and you got it.
Oh and the starving kids were in Africa when I was a child.
I thought it was funny when other kids asked me what I had for my birthday dinner the day after my birthday. I told them whatever we had the night before, and sometimes they would ask me why I chose that meal. Why I chose that meal? Ha! The only choice was to eat it or go to bed hungry, with a whipping before that.
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