Six-year-old uses dad’s phone to order nearly US$1,000 of Grubhub across US town


Delivery driver after delivery driver showed up last night dropping off food at my doorstep, Stonehouse said in a Facebook post. — Photo by Norma Mortenson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-wearing-a-face-mask-delivering-pizza-4393426/

As the food deliveries piled up outside a Michigan home, a 6-year-old boy was determined to be the unlikely hungry culprit.

It started on Saturday, Jan 28, when Keith Stonehouse let his son Mason play with his phone before bed. That would set Stonehouse back hundreds of dollars, as Mason used his father’s Grubhub account to order from various restaurants.

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