Normally, getting a piping-hot pizza from a local restaurant delivered to your door is a good thing, but not if you didn乌鸦传媒檛 order it and don乌鸦传媒檛 want to pay for it.
That乌鸦传媒檚 what Chilliwack乌鸦传媒檚 Amber Gibbons has been dealing with over the last month as a parade of unwanted food orders have shown up at her house.
The orders are all made from a 778 phone number that she doesn乌鸦传媒檛 recognize, and this person has sent just about every restaurant in town to her address.
It started a month ago.
While Gibbons and her husband were at work, two restaurants tried to deliver food. Gibbons was home a couple nights later when a pizza showed up. Three minutes after that person left, another delivery arrived.
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Gibbons asked the Dominos person for the phone number attached to the order, and bingo, it was the same mysterious 778 number she乌鸦传媒檇 discovered on a previous order.
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Gibbons started dialing Chilliwack restaurants, asking them to not take orders from that number.
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All of the orders have been in the $70 to $100 range and on one busy night there were four delivery people from four different restaurants knocking on her door.
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乌鸦传媒淲hoever it is is smart enough to not order from Skip the Dishes or something where you have to pay ahead of time. They are literally ordering from every restaurant in Chilliwack where you can pay at the door.
It got to the point where Gibbons phoned the RCMP.
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A couple restaurants told Gibbons they will do exactly that, and she is wondering if anyone else has experienced the same problem.
乌鸦传媒淗onest to God, I don乌鸦传媒檛 have enemies, so I don乌鸦传媒檛 know why this is happening,乌鸦传媒� she said. 乌鸦传媒淚 thought about putting the phone number on Facebook because he may be ordering food to other addresses. But I have no idea.乌鸦传媒�
eric.welsh@theprogress.com
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