DoorDash customer left choking and gasping for air before chilling doorbell footage exposes driver

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10 Dec 2025 | LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR

[Sequoyah101]

In my younger days I laid flooring. We did the most popular restaurant in town one night. Scraped grease with lumps of dead rat and mouse and droppings from the floor behind and under the cooking counters and stove. It was awful.

[suasponte137]

How about coffee and other drinks?

[from occupied ga]

That purple-haired, overweight freak deserves jail time, period.

That and a bear spray enema

[KamperKen]

“How about coffee and other drinks?”

Neither have been ordered when I’ve been visiting. I’m not sure how those are handled since I’ve never witnessed it but I’ll concede it’s a potential vulnerability. I also suspect the restaurants now address this as well.

There was the incident of Tylenol being poisoned with cyanide in 1982 and now all products in containers that are not metal cans are tightly sealed.

[Inyo-Mono]

While I was working my way through college, I spent a bit over year at Bonanza steakhouse as a cook. I made sure that my customers were served exactly the meal they asked for and never had a meal returned to me.

Same here, I worked as a short order cook while attending college in the '70s and went out of my way to make sure the customer's food was prepared properly and to the best of my ability. Often, customers would ask the waitress if I could be the one to cook their hamburger instead of the other chefs because I did it right.

[MarDav]

Got me to thinking of the Michael Douglas movie “Falling Down”

[MayflowerMadam]

I have to believe you are right.

[4yearlurker]

I had a girlfriend back in 1981 from North Carolina. She used to work at a McDonalds in Fayetteville. I asked her if any of those burgers ever hit the floor then were thrown on the grill. She Replied:"all the time."

[V_TWIN]

That’s what my buddy said about the steakhouse he worked at.

He said “if you think when a steak gets dropped on the kitchen floor it goes in the trash can think again”.

[V_TWIN]

I’ve been called worse. Lol!

[SaxxonWoods]

d;^D

Eh, you just popped off...I have never bought food that way. Maybe they were sick. Maybe they were drunk and or stoned. Maybe their car was broken down. Maybe they have active warrants. Ya never know!

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Regardless of their situation, tampering with peoples’ food should be a very serious felony. The purple-haired miscreant should spend the next ten years or so of its wretched life as a guest of the State ... and should be served only nutraloaf for the entire time.
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I agree 100%! The only thing that ticks me off is that as a guest of the State every dime spent on her “care” would be coming out of the taxpayers’ pockets!

[Bikkuri]

[JennysCool]

First off, being too lazy to go get your own Arby's causes me to have limited sympathy for these two.

Do you also have "limited sympathy" for the elderly and handicapped people who see DoorDash and the other delivery services which sprouted up during COVID as a godsend?

Not everyone ordering food delivery is "too lazy" to meet your lofty standards.

And anyway, as another poster pointed out, pizza places, Chinese restaurants, dairies and various other businesses have had home delivery for eons. This isn't anything new, whether you "believe in it" or not.

[suasponte137]

I’m sure there’s precautions that could be taken for sure, but just a thought of my food, sitting in a unknown car with an unknown person, who could theoretically be smoking dope or cigarettes the whole way, have an absolute filthy car that will get on the bag, etc., etc., just turns me off to the whole thing

And to be perfectly honest, the real nightmare scenario that ultimately set stone that I would never order food delivered again happened in a town I used to live in about 10 years ago.

I’m not going to get the particulars of it because it’s that disgusting, but the absolute wave top scenario was that there was a delivery driver doing terrible things to the food that he was delivering, and there was a young girl in one of the families that he delivered food to that ended up getting an STD on her mouth from what he was doing , and that was the catalyst that ultimately led to him getting caught.
And now flash forward to this article right here of this fruitcake woman essentially for unknown reasons, dosing a customers food with pepper spray an ultimately circumventing any potential safeguards that DoorDash put in place such as taping the bag shot, etc.

The convenience of it just isn’t that important to me I guess, sick or not I’m going to get my own food if its at a food establishment or it’s PB&J if I can’t do it

[freepertoo]

I was a Doordash driver for a few years after I retired because I had a lot of fun doing it. It also made me feel that I was doing a service for someone. Please folks. Don’t generalize. Most of the Dashers I met were decent people. Some just needed to supplement income. Some had fun with it, like I did. There are bad apples in every barrel.

[Z28.310]

While I knew of the concept, I wish i could recall the FReeper who shared the specific term with me. I owe thanks.

...whoever you are, thank you

[daler]

“I’m uncomfortable with food handled in restaurants.”

It’s difficult nowadays to fill positions in law firms, dental clinics and hardware stores.

Imagine slinging burgers onto a grill in a hot fast-food kitchen with co-workers yelling orders at you.

Who are you going to find to willingly and happily do that job?

If you think about that long enough you’ll probably cook your own meals at home.

[Bikkuri]

So much we can learn on this site ;^)