Mar 20 - Uber Eats mystery unfolds as LA neighborhood sent dozens of free fast food meals

Uber Eats mystery unfolds as Los Angeles neighborhood sent dozens of free fast food meals

LOS ANGELES, California -- Residents of a Los Angeles neighborhood have been inundated with unwanted fast food deliveries from Uber Eats arriving at all hours of the day, spurring an investigation from the food delivery company.

"Before you knew it, the whole street was lined with bags of McDonald's and Starbucks and nobody could explain where it was coming from," said Morgan Currier, who has received about 30 of the mysterious deliveries. "People have been getting upwards of 30 to 40 orders."

Residents say the food drop-offs started about three weeks ago and have mostly been meals from McDonalds, Taco Bell and Starbucks.

Initially, resident William Neal was loving the free food, but quickly grew sick of the deliveries since the meals sent to his home were consistently the same.

"About 80% of the time it was a single Chicken McCrispy," Neal told Eyewitness News.

When asked if he likes the sandwiches, he replied, "I don't know how I feel about them now." He added that they now "haunt my dreams."

Still unknown is who is paying for the food deliveries.

A spokesman for Uber tells us the company has launched an investigation and has "taken action against a number of accounts."

Residents say they tried calling the phone numbers attached to the orders, but the numbers were disconnected. They are happy each of the orders included tips for the delivery people.

Sadly, many of the people who received the food deliveries were unable to enjoy them.

"Most of us are vegetarian here, so we couldn't really eat them," said MJ Lat. "We'd give them to contractors on the street or we'd just walk them down to this little, local food pantry."

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When asked if he likes the sandwiches, he replied, "I don't know how I feel about them now." He added that they now "haunt my dreams."

someone is just fu*king with the vegans

Why didn’t they send that to the hood?

WTF is a Chicken McCrispy?

" Dozens "

I can already tell what kind of neighborhood it was with the "most of us are vegetarian here." Sending food to mfs who don't need it. There was a point in my life when I woulda loved a free chicken sandwich to pop up on my doorstep.

Send that sh*t to the hood next time

Definitely a troll

Whatever the endgame here is could’ve been achieved just the same with the food going to spots where it would’ve not only been actually eaten, but might’ve also been the best thing to happen in somebody’s fukced up life in a minute.

Some kid in a homeless shelter w his moms, brothers & sisters woulda felt like it was Christmas in March if a bag full a McDonalds fries & Chicken McCrispys popped up at his dorm door.

braze189 said

Whatever the endgame here is could’ve been achieved just the same with the food going to spots where it would’ve not only been actually eaten, but might’ve also been the best thing to happen in somebody’s fukced up life in a minute.

Some kid in a homeless shelter w his moms, brothers & sisters woulda felt like it was Christmas in March if a bag full a McDonalds fries & Chicken McCrispys popped up at his dorm door.

Doing all this extra sh*t when you can do it and help others too.SMH

Back when I used to jig food places I always gave the extra food away.The same with clothes.

I wouldnt put it past Uber to be the ones doing that as some kind of odd form of marketing, seeking headlines and media attention. After all there is info and video out there that points out a lot of crazy and weird sh*t Uber has done in the past. So it wouldnt surprise me that is just more strange sh*t that Uber themselves have a history of doing.

alwaysworking said

someone is just fu*king with the vegans

Perfectly executed trolling by someone.

kip99 said

Perfectly executed trolling by someone.

Is it, tho? They’re paying for the food. If they weren’t, or if somebody was scamming peoples cards to charge it, Uber woulda been put a stop to it. They ain’t finna eat those chargebacks more than 2-3x. If you spending hundreds to send food to people who don’t want it, I’d have to say you’re trolling yourself.

None of those people seemed bothered at all except dude that actually ate the sh*t until he couldn’t take it anymore.

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Feeding the rats

uber left a huge bag of Popeyes in the vestibule of my building with the name of a woman that didn't live there

I left it there overnight and came down the next morning and threw it out

Popeyes is a 2 block walk from my building so it was weird someone would uber eats that order that close lol

braze189 said

Whatever the endgame here is could’ve been achieved just the same with the food going to spots where it would’ve not only been actually eaten, but might’ve also been the best thing to happen in somebody’s fukced up life in a minute.

Some kid in a homeless shelter w his moms, brothers & sisters woulda felt like it was Christmas in March if a bag full a McDonalds fries & Chicken McCrispys popped up at his dorm door.

If I had it like that. That would be 1 of my life missions. Free food for the homeless.

Odd marketing tactic

Sin said

uber left a huge bag of Popeyes in the vestibule of my building with the name of a woman that didn't live there

I left it there overnight and came down the next morning and threw it out

Popeyes is a 2 block walk from my building so it was weird someone would uber eats that order that close lol

Person who dropped it off couldn't find her apartment so he left it in your building where they thought she lived