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Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years
- ashildr 6y agoIf he was the only person receiving these deliveries I’d guess the most probable explanation was completely unrelated to his person - a GPS coordinate / default value in some frequently used application or service. Or maybe something similar like an erroneous lookup in a database that actually contains his data, like somebody using production data in a database for testing purposes. This would explain orders of 14 pizzas at once, which may be a rare order size in production environments. However, the fact that he seems to know a second person affected by this makes it way more likely that this is in fact a personal attack.
- arzel 6y agoProbably some group checking to see if their stolen credit cards are working, by ordering pizza to this guys address.
- djhworld 6y agoReply All did a show about this https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2
- RufusJacksons 6y agoLove that episode. Every time I order from Dominoes I use the name Adam Pisces now
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- johnfn 6y agoDang - that was really good, but at the end I feel unsatisfied because it doesn't feel like they found the right answer!
- shalmanese 6y agoOne theory they never covered in the show was that it could be a hedge fund doing this to generate receipts so they can analyze sales velocity. That's part of how the Luckin Coffee fraud was uncovered.
- pixiemaster 6y agobut then they would already be paid, right?
- 4ad 6y agoWhy do they keep using the same address again and again?
- gregoriol 6y agoIf that's true, why would they use the same address that often? isn't it the best way to be flagged and uncovered? it would be so easy to pick random addresses
- numpad0 6y agoI looked up Google Maps and zip code for Turnhout where the house in the article is is 2300. So the address must be like [number] [street] 2300(Turnhout), Antwerp, Belgium. I don’t know why it’s not Albania or Andorra but makes sense it’s not Zambia.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIt's assuming the police will do anything about it. But the probability they even take the time to listen to the old man story is pretty slim.
- wccrawford 6y agoHe said his friend also gets a lot of these deliveries, sometimes on the same day he does. He suspects it's someone they know. It's been happening for 9 years and yet none of these businesses have managed to put him on a blacklist? I smell something fishy. The article started to read like The Onion at one point, and I suspect it's not even real.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoMaybe the shops are laundering money, and pretend they are loosing money with their "victims", while actually registering a sale to allow dirty money to come in. This solves the problem you get when laundering money with a food joint: you need customers.
- foepys 6y agoWhy would they not just randomize the addresses? Or just deliver to an office where they could claim 100€+ deliveries?
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI don't know, the restaurants I suspect of laundering money around me don't bother faking customers. They are just empty most of the time. Maybe they noticed that those adresses never cause problems (single old people) and are close enough to not be too annoying to deliver to? Maybe they are just too lazy to do more, and it's enough for it to work? Maybe they are using a lot more addresses but we don't get that information? But there is a limit to the addresses you can use, and you are supposed to have repeated customers. Maybe there is something special about those adresses we don't know about?
- crizzlenizzle 6y agoI’m wondering how this works actually. Are they actually delivering pizzas or are those pizzas with expired ingredients or just fake boxes? I guess the latter doesn’t make sense since you’d notice more registered sales than what your raw materials are able to yield.
- draw_down 6y agoHe says he doesn’t pay and sends them away, which implies the orders aren’t prepaid, as they would be if card testing
- hellofunk 6y agoHe said the restaurants are losing money because he does not pay them.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoSomeone is paying them. Why continue delivering orders to someone who you think ordered, but then isn't paying?
- hellofunk 6y agoWhat you’re saying makes sense but it contradicts what is written in the article. Also, there are many many different restaurants involved in this, so any one restaurant blacklisting him would not change it.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoThat interpretation is fine. He says "I have always refused the deliveries, so I have never paid for anything," but that's no indicator for whether the restaurant was already paid.
- bobwernstein 6y agobecause you have to pay at the door. so nobody is paying
- meowface 6y agoNo, the likely harasser is searching for delivery services that allow cash on delivery for payment. They just don't use any services that only have pre-payment options.
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoThat is what I am asking, if your delivering pizzas to the same address for a decade and your not getting paid, why keep delivering pizzas? Surely you can blacklist an address or ask for payment up front? There can’t be so many pizza places in delivery range of this guys house that you can order every day for ten years and nobody catches on that this address never pays.
- gregoriol 6y agoWouldn't it take only a few minutes for the police to get the phone number(s) and find out?
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- gregoriol 6y agoAlso, eventhough the phone numbers were not always the same, I guess over so many cases, there must be a way for an investigation to find useful information
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI have a friend of mine that has been beaten up badly, twice. 10 years ago by his neighbours, in front of a witness. He got his jaw broken. 5 years ago by a random guy in the street, in front of a security camera that caught the dude car's plate. He got his nose broken. In both cases, the police at best did nothing, at worst tried to activaly prevent action (loosing the case file, not registering it, not passing it around, or asking my friend to not go further). So I'm expecting that for an old guy receiving pizzas, they have zero incentive to even think about it.
- pachico 6y agoWhere is this? (Btw, if your friend is getting beaten up every 5 years and the last time was 5 years ago I'd tell him to hide or stay low for a while.)
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoFrance, which shares lot of similarities with Belgium. And franckly, this comments feels loaded with assumptions.
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- joyj2nd 6y agoAs long as it is paid for I would not mind. I can't eat gluten, maybe they could switch to gluten free pizza or sushi?
- mytailorisrich 6y agoThere are constant discussions on online security on HN, but do not forget that accepting and eating food that way is a big security risk for your actual health. It's basically like knocking on a door at random and asking the person who opens it to eat something you're giving them... Accepting sounds like playing Russian roulette.
- __m 6y agoyeah all those calories are a security nightmare
- slim 6y agoIt depends on your threat model. Unless you think someone wants to kill you, the risk is so low that it makes sense to take it and get a free pizza
- mytailorisrich 6y ago"this risk is so low" is a leap of faith because you have no clue about that unless it happens to you all the time (where do you live??). It is playing Russian roulette by betting that the risk is low...
- joyj2nd 6y agoBut kidding aside. I don't understand this guys problem. If it would annoy me then I would put up a sign that explains the problem and states that I don't take any food deliveries. If I move into a new place I actually disconnect the door bell. Friends call by phone if they come and I receive my mail by a mail service. Somebody ringing my door bell can't be a good thing.
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- mattlondon 6y agoCould just be a geocoding issue? Some data bug in a database somewhere that unfortunately ends up "redirecting" a load of addresses/postal codes etc to this guys house?
- pixiemaster 6y agothat could be. Or accidental mixup between a staging system with automated testa and a production microservice?
- minikites 6y agoThere's story like this about a place in Kansas that acts like a "dead letter office" for problematic geolocation queries. https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-the-default-address-for-all-american-internet-users/ https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-th...
- neals 6y agoReminds me about this Reply-all[0] episode about a mysterious $2 coke that is orders at Domino's all over the USA: [0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2
- egypturnash 6y agoDamn that is a hell of a story.
- safetyfirstb 6y agoReply All's "Super Tech Support" segment is amazing and full of these weird tech issues. You should check them out if you haven't already. I can't recommend them enough.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIt may be a bot? Either one with a bug, or a way for the authors to kill some competition? The article doesn't say if the pizzas were ordered online or by phoning directly the shops. At the begining, the bot would not have been able to call, but I assume now it's possible to make bots smart enough to handle pizza orders. It may even be a nice way to train one.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI wonder how long it took local pizza restaurants to figure out that this address is problematic and flag it, refusing service? I'd tolerate no more than 3 times. So, how many pizza restaurants are there in the area? 20? 50? 100? I don't know how this could last for years. (That comes from an assumption that pizzas are not paid for in advance, which the article kinda implies)
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoSeveral possibilities I can imagine: - they don't handle ordering and delivery: those are outsourced, and so they don't get the address. Or they do manage ordering, but not delivery, and the ordering system has a bug. - they benefit from those fake sales because they are laundering money through their restaurant - they benefit from those fake sales because they have an insurance that pays for those - they are using those addresses, that they know don't cause problems, to test something. - they use the pizza delivery as an excuse to be here, and do something illegal (surveillance, delivering drugs, territorial presence, etc). - it's a fake/exagerated article/testimony
- PakG1 6y agoThat would be a lot of testing for the fourth option. :)
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIndeed. But the testing may have nothing to do with the pizza business itself. Maybe it's a way to do hiring. Maybe they test delivery gears. Maybe they test the time it takes to delivery using said vehicule on one terrain. Maybe they test the time it takes for some kind of product to be cold, or not tasteful anymore. A serious test must be down for a long time, accross terrains and seasons. And if you test a lot of thing, you will need a lot of deliveries for a long time.
- dingaling 6y agoA relatively famous example of the fourth option was the Four Square Laundry in Belfast in the 1970s, which was actually a security services front which tested clothes for traces of gunpowder and explosives. They had to run a book of initial 'customers' in order to capture the interesting trade. Eventually it was outed with fatal results, but until then it had turned up a lot of intelligence.
- elcomet 6y agoThat's crazy. It cannot possibly be one person harassing him, or this person is a true sociopath. I guess it could be a bug, in some common system that restaurants use to register adresses ?
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- steveharman 6y ago"stupid Flanders" (TM)
- bjarneh 6y agoSeinfeld wants to kill him I guess...?
- _ph_ 6y agoA strange story. I cannot understand why the police isn't looking into it. At minimum, there would be a credit card number for each order which could be traced. There should be phone records. If this goes via a payment processor, they should flag the addresses. The fact that the orders happen to two persons in parallel basically rules out any randomness in the process.
- mosselman 6y agoThey are meant to be paid cash at the door as far as I understand. What I don’t understand is why the pizza places can’t just stop taking orders for that address. There must be a finite number of pizza places within delivery range. Something stinks about this
- pw6hv 6y agoIn the article the man mentioned he always refused to pay, so the payment is probably done at delivery. In Europe this is quite common.
- narrowtux 6y agoAt some places, you can just order them w/o creditcard data and pay with cash when they're at your door. A person using this to harass someone will certainly not use their own money to do it.
- _ph_ 6y agoRight, I forgot, that it is still common here in Germany, where I live :). But if these orders come from one person, the orders should be traceable. Also, I don't get why the pizza shops don't have a larger incentive to not fall victim to this.
- wirrbel 6y agoSo here in Germany they will often call you back on a land-line to confirm the order (and to have a verified phone number associated with the order) pretty sure that's keeping fraud down. Susequent orders don't require this anymore because they have the address on file.
- ksec 6y agoSorry but why is this on HN? I kept reading and I was expecting some programming, off by one, Unicode, or whatever error that caused the problem. Or Some online Credit Card Fraud operation that used Food Delivery as whatever tools it may be. But no, Nothing. So again, why is this on HN? I am generally curious.
- Luc 6y agoThe less substance there is to the story, the more people can project their own meaning into it.
- kelnos 6y agoPlease don't complain about relevance. If you don't want to see it, flag or hide it and move on.
- yesplorer 6y agoBecause the guidelines allows it: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I think this qualifies as interesting new phenomenon.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoBecause there is no explanation for it and people are curious why it happens.
- turboturbo 6y agoI have used several food delivery services in Belgium, and all of them require upfront payment. Perhaps that’s why the restaurants didn’t blacklist his address. But regardless, it’s a weird story that seems unlikely
- dennisy 6y agoHow is this at the top spot?
- baby 6y agoI sometimes receive my neighbor's mail (199 instead of 119), and he does too. One time I ordered pizza and it said it was delivered, but I never received it. I'm wondering if he ate my pizza.
- lowdose 6y ago> A friend of mine who lives in Herenthout is going through exactly the same thing as I am. She has been receiving pizza she has not ordered for nine years, too. That's rich, either she is in on it or they have common enemy.
- gus_massa 6y agoIs she an old friend (like someone he meet in kindergarten) or a new friend that he meet while discussing this (for example, after posting this in some forum, he meet someone with the same problem and they become friends)?
- normalnorm 6y agoOne of the victims is in love / obsessed with the other, and this is a misguided attempt to stay in touch and have something unique in common.
- pachico 6y agoHi, I'm the one who posted this article. I'm sorry I bothered someone by doing so, I can share, thought, why I did it. I've been working on e-commerce for 20 years already and I have experienced or seen very curious things related to fraud, geo localisation mistakes, and false claims too. As someone already mentioned in the comments, I thought this could actually be one of those cases. Again, sorry if it bothered you.
- _ph_ 6y agoNothing to be worried about. All who answered did so, because the article interested them. If the article is bogus, it is not your fault, but the fault of the publishers. And I am quite convinced the article isn't bogus, just something very strange is going on there.
- ksec 6y agoNope you didn't bother me at all. I just wish there was some more context of the post. So my apology if you were referring to me. All is good. Would love to read stories on those fraud cases.
- anpago 6y agoIt's a perfect article to comment on and consider. As you write many of us may work on e commerce projects now or at some point. Plus I would think many of us are problem solvers at heart.
- supernova87a 6y agoIt would be much more helpful if the linked article had an explanation of why this is happening (ordering system IT error, delivery confusion, funny name swap, etc), to make it interesting and something that has a takeaway point. Right now it's just left like an unresolved mystery, as if the gods are just causing this for their amusement. But clearly there's a reason why this is happening, and the reporter couldn't be troubled to find out why.
- joshuaheard 6y agoFollow the money. Why doesn't he contact the delivery restaurant and find out who paid? Also, if he never orders pizza, have the restaurants put him on a "no delivery" list.
- social_quotient 6y agoIt’s weird but I feel like with a little more info this would be a case for Reddit to try and figure out.
- lostlogin 6y agoThis can go badly wrong though. It’s had impressive result too but the doxing of innocent people has had catastrophic results. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2r3d54/what_happened_with_reddit_and_the_boston_marathon/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2r3d54/what_h...
- Sevaris 6y agoI think at the very least, this is the kind of harmless situation that won't turn into a Pizzagate kind of thing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory)
- arke_125 6y agoI think it might be a case of someone testing the delivery/ordering software in production with real data instead of dummy data? That would explain why it went on for years. The test data won't be updated quickly and no one would flag it because it is not supposed to be a real order.
- ken 6y agoAnd the tester just happened to pick two friends, who live 20 miles apart in different cities, who have never ordered from the restaurant? That is both a remarkable coincidence, and a bizarre choice of test data.
- Sevaris 6y agoMaybe the tester is a friend of theirs and he's been quietly fucking with them for years?
- withinboredom 6y agoI’m a US expat living in the Netherlands. I often have to use built-in browser translation services to fill out forms. It’s amazing how some forms completely break when using the translator. I’ve been born at NaN-NaN-NaN before, and submitted completely blank forms that passed client validation but apparently there’s no server validation. I wonder if it’s this issue where the form gets the postal code but not the rest and they happen to live at “the default” for that location. This could explain their friend too.
- tsukurimashou 6y agohahaha the same happened to me, I also remember when I had to register for an internet connection, I didn't have a Dutch bank account yet and my French IBAN was too long. Simply removing the maximum character limit from the input field was enough, and I was able to submit the form, they never asked anything and accepted my long IBAN gladly. It was XS4all, so not the small ISP either.
- DonHopkins 6y agoKarin Spaink has an awesome XS4ALL t-shirt: Final Victory Scientology - XS4ALL 0-4 https://www.religionnewsblog.com/13053/scientology-0-xs4all-4 https://www.religionnewsblog.com/13053/scientology-0-xs4all-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Spaink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Spaink
- simias 6y agoI had the same situation happen in Portugal with the water company. They limited the IBAN field to Portuguese length, I edited the input's code and submitted it that way. It worked.
- DonHopkins 6y agoI'm also a US expat living in the Netherlands, and several sites like my bank refer to me by my first initials and my last name, "DE HOPKINS", which gets translated as "THE HOPKINS". I supposed I should be glad they don't refer to me as "THE DONALD", that would be humiliating.
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- helij 6y agoWhat if this is only an ad for frozen pizzas? From the article: “I only buy frozen pizzas from Colruyt or Aldi. I have never asked for them to be delivered to my house,”
- loufe 6y ago"HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?"
- schwap 6y agoI'm wondering if this whole situation is the universe trying to show this poor guy what good pizza is.
- hyperman1 6y agoColruyt and Aldi are hard discounters. Cheap and tolerable quality. I don't expect their frozen pizzas to be any good. They don't do weird ads.
- magic7s 6y agoSomewhere someone’s CI/CD pipeline is kicking off a test that completes an order.
- joshstrange 6y agoIt makes me very interested as to what his address is, is it "123 Main St" or some other common name? I mean at a past company we had a ton of data pointing to our old office, places close by to our office, or home addresses of employees for testing. That said unless all these places (it appears to not just be 1) have the same backend and the tests are run against each location I'm not sure if CI/CD is the right answer. It gave me a laugh for sure and reminded me the terror around kicking off a job in our production clone (the only way to fully test some queries/processes due to size and real-world data needed). We had scripts that wiped things like phone numbers, emails, SSN, etc before it hit the clone but not all developers where diligent about adding to the cleaning script when adding new fields to the DB. My nightmare was sending out a batch of SMS/Emails to people alerting them to an issue (the staleness of the data would fire off false alarms) that didn't exist.
- netsharc 6y agoMakes me want to live at Foobar St. 42...
- avs733 6y agoIt's easy to assume maliciousness in something like this but it is just as easily explained by just stupidity. My Fiance has a fairly common name, and is the owner of the associated gmail account (think John.Smith@gmail.com). Several older women in other states have the same name...and seem to repeatedly beleive they have her email. My fiance got so frustrated with Walmart orders, amazon orders, bills, personal emails being sent to her that she tracked one lady down and called her. The lady got angry that my fiance was 'using her email address and hacking her' and had to have it repeatedly explained that the old lady's email address was in fact slightly different (number at the end). It keeps happening. the lady writes it down wrong, her husband enters it wrong, her HOA (at her new house) enters it wrong. When the HOA got it wrong we told them and they asked us to fix it for them...We finally seemed to get some purchase on behavior change when we cancelled one of her orders via email. But the amount of information/influence we had over her accounts with just email was amazing. At one point, her husband used my fiance's email to register a bank account. We called the bank and after explaining the situation were able to CORRECT the email address for her (we decided that a bank account was serious enough to fix it rather than just be annoyed). I think its perfectly valid to be concerned this is malicious or evil...but so many people are just inept technology users.
- cproctor 6y agoIn my gmail double life, I'm a falconer, a long-haul truck driver, and like to go on pilgrimages to Scottish golf clubs and to the holy land.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoThis is a great reason to not have gmail/yahoo/outlook/hotmail addresses: It's really hard to accidentally send an email to my domain. And people misentering my address are very unlikely to hit another valid one.
- avs733 6y agototally agree. but it is also sooo convienient as a junk mail address for signups. Just like biometrics aren't a password but are a good user ID, I have a couple different email address that I use for very different purposes that involve different exposure. My work email never has anything not work related, my personal email rarely gets ads and I prune it aggressively...my gmail looks like a syphilitic brain and I don't mind because I know what it is.
- driverdan 6y agoThis is really poor journalism. Where's the interviews with the restaurants and police? Speculation from industry experts? Anything more would make this a better article.
- pier25 6y ago> “A friend of mine who lives in Herenthout is going through exactly the same thing as I am. She has been receiving pizza she has not ordered for nine years, too,” Van Landeghem said. Either this problem is extremely common in Belgium, or this is a very suspicious coincidence.
- fragmede 6y agoIt's possible there's code somewhere in the stack which sets a default, and the fall through case in the code resulting in this real-life weirdness. eg. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-su...
- pier25 6y agoSure, but it would be quite a coincidence that these defaults happen to two people who happen to be friends.
- firethief 6y ago> “Sometimes we both get them on the same day. When that happens, we warn each other to expect a delivery,” Yeah, I'd have some questions for whichever of them knows when it's going to be the kind of day they both get one...
- hyperman1 6y agoIts not common in Belgium. That's why it was on the local news.
- pier25 6y agoYeah, that was my point :) I should have added /s. Sarcasm doesn't always translate well to text.
- mayneack 6y agoI wonder if he's at the geographic center of his city or postcode. Sometimes a geocoding service will default to the center of an area if the address isn't precise enough or if it's using IP address based geocoding. It doesn't say if the orders actually have his address on them or just show up. Approximately a small scale version of this: https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turned-a-random-kansas-f-1793856052 https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...
- dehrmann 6y agoI was pretty disappointed that the article didn't have an explanation.
- szatkus 6y agoAfter 9 years and many failed deliveries I think they would figure this out.
- netsharc 6y agoMaybe the people ordering are using IE4 and too modern Javascript on the restaurants' site fail to return the correct address. Luckily it's just pizza and not an artillery attack. I guess that'll happen soon enough, military bomber dropping a bomb in a wrong location because the soldier "ordering" the bombardment from the ground didn't update his app to the latest version...
- coronadisaster 6y agoI tend to always use the same fake email and fake phone number in some forms... it might cause issues similar to this, unfortunately.
- aaron695 6y agoIt's two things, maybe he has an enemy. Or a slightly more likely he's a crazy old man who's got a few wrong orders. As you can tell by the fact his friend has as well. Explains why no blacklist or why no police helping after 9 years. There's no default value going on here. No one here ever wrote a web form or used a map? Try and understand the Appp map Las Vegas issue, don't just rote learn it.
- runeks 6y agoI’ve heard of worse things happening to people
- yumraj 6y agoOnce I received a payment via PayPal, of a few hundred dollars. Luckily, before I needed to do anything or call PayPal, the payee realized her mistake and PayPal took the money out - they notified me. I can only imagine how freaked out the payee must have been.. ;)
- tamaharbor 6y agoI find it amusing that people believe almost everything they read.
- lgregg 6y agoI keep getting amazon packages to my apartment from a former tenant. I try to decline them but they sometimes get delivered while I'm not home. I can at least put return to sender letters in mailboxes. How do you deal with boxes?
- LockAndLol 6y agoI'm confused... if everything is paid for, why doesn't he accept them? Is it common for delivery services to deliver unpaid good? And if he never orders pizza, can't he tell the pizza place to never deliver to his address? If that's already been done then a sign on the door would help a lot, no?
- gus_massa 6y agoIANAL, but if someone else paid for it and you keep it, then it is almost stealing.
- LockAndLol 6y agoHow would you then make the distinction between that and a gift?
- rkhassen9 6y agoSeems easy enough to catch the source of this prankster, if there is one. All he’d have to do, is notify the restaurants in his delivery radius, give them his address, tell them to never accept the order to this address. This alone should stop the orders, but to catch the source, ask them to take the phone number of the person placing the order, maybe to pretend to confirm the order, the restaurant calls back the person placing the order, if the person answers, give the # to the police.
- jvanderbot 6y agoReminds me of the couple that lives on a farm that is the default geolocation for 600 million IP addresses. Their farm has been visited by authorities for a long time. https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-the-default-address-for-all-american-internet-users/ https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-th... And in my work, we always know the direction to null island, because stray robots will head right for it. I even thought about writing a short story about all the stray / bugged out robots piling up on the seafloor near it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
- unexaminedlife 6y agoI have a theory, which I hope is mostly wrong, and may or may not apply directly to this particular situation. We always hear about the cases where people from foreign countries are trolling celebrities or other high profile people. Why should people with malicious intent stop there? Why shouldn't we all consider ourselves a target of trolls? It only helps us lose faith in society. I am under the impression one of the relatively NEW tactics of groups (also why does it have to be groups and not angry individuals?) trying to cause civil unrest is to simply target every human being so they will all turn on one another, become hostile, and cause their own collapse.
- fardeem 6y agoNot gonna lie this is pretty funny. Hope the person actually ordering gets their pizza.
- achenatx 6y agoI was in the gmail beta so have a great first.last@gmail.com email address. The name is an extremely common asian name (there are like 5 people with my name in my town). I have gotten divorce papers to sign, okcupid account signup, jims worm farm order confirmation/delivery etc.
- darepublic 6y agoCan't this guy call all these delivery places and explain to them his situation. Sure it's annoying but seems worth it given the circumstances
- barbarbar 6y agoWow - that is really weird that it has been going on for that many years. Also strange that he had a friend who experienced the same problem. I suppose the pizza shop should do more to avoid it.
- yellowapple 6y agoI mean, I could go for some pizza and kebab right about now...
- tvbuzz 6y agoI share the same name as a tv journalist and author. After years of receiving emails and calls - I received an invitation to a “Back from the Hamptons Cocktail Party” hosted by a now US Ambassador. With the RVSP, I let the host know I was the other guy (we both worked in TV at the time). She insisted there was no mistake and the invite was for me. Spent the evening partying up with Martha Stewart and many other celebs.