Somebody is sending paid meals deliveries to an LA neighborhood, leaving residents uneasy: ‘I don’t belief it’

Residents in a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood have been puzzled by a string of paid meals deliveries which are exhibiting up on doorsteps regardless of not being ordered.

The Los Angeles Occasions reported this week that residents alongside Vary View Avenue within the Highland Park neighborhood have been receiving deliveries of rooster sandwiches, milkshakes, pastries, espresso and different objects they by no means ordered from meals supply providers like Uber Eats.

The unrequested deliveries started in February, and a handful of individuals informed the Occasions that they generally obtained a number of orders per day. It isn’t clear if the orders are a rip-off or prank of some form.

Residents say that the supply drivers haven’t been capable of present a lot details about who’s putting the orders because of both not realizing or as a result of the deliveries are utilizing the names of different individuals.

“The drivers all the time chortle on the state of affairs,” Vary View resident Will Neal, a documentary filmmaker, mentioned.

“It’s sort of outstanding what they can do with a pancake sandwich,” Neal added, in a joking reference to the 4 unrequested McDonald’s McGriddles that he obtained at his residence on Feb. 25 – the primary out of 40 mysterious deliveries to his residence.

Some residents have been consuming the meals, some have been throwing it away, and others have donated it to native charities.

“I don’t belief it — I’m throwing it out,” Dean Sao, a carpenter at close by Pasadena Metropolis School, informed the outlet. “I don’t know who’s doing it. We had been joking at first: It have to be Elon Musk — I don’t know who else may afford it.”

Morgan Currier, who obtained 30 deliveries, informed the outlet that she had the supply driver name the quantity that was related to the order, and it had been disconnected.

An Uber spokesperson informed Fox Enterprise that the corporate has launched an investigation into the supply of the orders and has “taken motion” in opposition to plenty of accounts.

The spokesperson added that the corporate is monitoring orders despatched to that part of Highland Park.