March 30, 2019

Watching your front door security footage after your child has consumed the milkshake the DoorDash guy delivered.

You see the guy drinking the shake.

My question: Why would you accept delivery of a shake with an unwrapped, open straw sticking out of it? It's obviously unsanitary.

I was a little surprised to see this story made the front page of the New York Daily News. It's so piddlingly small. And yet... it is one of the nagging fears of modern life. You're not supervising the preparation and service of your own food. You want other people doing this work, and that means that many hands (and mouths and other body parts) touch or could touch your food. What's going on?
And here's a case where you've got video of what you fear....

35 comments:

Ralph L said...

Tony Soprano disses PoC.

exhelodrvr1 said...

It's just SLow Joe - what's the big deal?

Ralph L said...

Plastic straw!!!
Stone Them!

traditionalguy said...

Complain,complain.The kid got a boosted immunization by exposure to a virus while young. And at no extra cost.

etbass said...

The 24/7 news cycle is responsible along with the easy accessibility of social media, digital images, etc., for the "over the top" trivia that fills up the news. Even Fox has become a tabloid of nonsense that no one cares about. They (the media) struggle for enough worthy stuff to fill up the insatiable appetites of the 24/7 news. And it just ain't there so they fill it with trivia.

Is the milkshake thing worthy news? Sure, in that neighborhood maybe. But in previous times it would never make it into the local news, much less world wide news.

robother said...

Traditionally princes had cup-bearers whose job description included taking the first sip to make sure the prince's wine hadn't been poisoned. As with gypsy cabs being rebranded as Uber and Lyft, maybe the delivery company should market this as a feature, not a bug.

Abdul Abulbul Amir said...

A leading seaman when I was a boot in the Navy said I should cheese whip the cup before putting the coffee in.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Seems fake. What is the straw doing in the drink?
The drink should be straw free. Drinks come with the straw on the side. (the illegal straw) Right? Bueller? Is this the Russians again?

Narayanan said...

What I posted on another thread !!

I have a question.

Who is more likely to do it?

"Detesting Bell ringers"

Red States Deplorables or
Blue States Wokesters

Added ...

Are deplorables affluenza-ed enough to order milkshake delivered?

Is this another example of ** I drink your milkshake meme **

TML said...

gross

Ice Nine said...

Who the hell orders a solitary *milkshake* delivered to his home? You want something to drink tonight, kid? -- drink a coke from the fridge. Get a milkshake tomorrow on the way home from school. WTF?

MadisonMan said...

It's obviously unsanitary

And then an ad plays before I can see the Ring -- or whatever -- video footage, and that ad is promoting the water park at Chula Vista and the first thing I see is all that water. So obviously unsanitary.

What's the point of having security videos if you're not looking at it?

Fernandinande said...

Founded and run by the Xu Tang Fang Clan.

mockturtle said...

Why did they blot out the guy's face? Not that the belly wouldn't give him away. Hope he'll at least be fired.

Earnest Prole said...

It’s more than a fear of modern life: It’s a highly personal violation. If you want proof, watch hit man Samuel L. Jackson down his prey’s drink with a straw in Pulp Fiction. If you haven’t seen it I won’t spoil it for you, but it involves Biblical verses.

Not Sure said...

I was not aware that Michael Moore had fallen on such hard times that he was working a second job.

exhelodrvr1 said...

All your milkshakes are belong to us

rhhardin said...

Having a dog changes your idea of acceptable hygiene.

mockturtle said...

rhhardin asserts: Having a dog changes your idea of acceptable hygiene.

And having two dogs throws it right out the window.

BUMBLE BEE said...

I remember a report from back in the day that video footage of a sociology experiment at LaGuardia airport showed %75 of toilet users didn't wash their hands afterward. Figure public transportation and doorknobs into the mix, you got quite a stew. A lot of storefront exercise places take care of the machines, but what about 50 or so folks doing cardio for much of the day, and you have compromised air handling. The wife only gets head colds when she's at the gym in prime time slots.

tcrosse said...

The guy at the malt shop probably spit in it before the cap went on.

WisRich said...

Ice Nine said...
Who the hell orders a solitary *milkshake* delivered to his home? You want something to drink tonight, kid? -- drink a coke from the fridge. Get a milkshake tomorrow on the way home from school. WTF?

3/30/19, 9:11 AM
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Better yet, make one yourself. All it takes is milk & Ice cream.

Curious George said...

I hate exposés on what restaurant workers do to food. I'm still going to eat at restaurants, there is nothing I can do, so I would rather just not know.

CWJ said...

I'm skeptical. Particularly since the report included no reply from either DoorDash or Cold Stone, much less a claim by the reporter that the TV station had reached out to them but had not heard back. The "victim" claims to have reached out, but that's all.

Howard said...

"Having" a dog reminded me of this classic
rhhardin in mufti

Leslie Graves said...

In this story, the man delivering the milkshake represents Donald Trump. The act of ordering a milk shake via Door Dash represents everything that is wrong with the country and why American is no longer Great Again.

The narrative arc that appeals to people isn't the "oh gross I hope that never happens to me how disgusting" angle, although that is certainly an angle present in this story.

Rather, it is the "Huh. When the country is no longer great again, whaddya expect? You're going to get someone a little rough around the edges and he's gonna take a sip right out of you milkshake, and that's what you deserve, all you pretend elites who do things like order Door Dash milkshakes."

Tomcc said...

Hilarious! The straw in the drink should have been a clue. Also, I doubt that I'd allow my minor child to order something delivered to the house by a stranger unless there was an adult present. Fat lot of good remote video would do in an actual emergency.

Bruce Hayden said...

I do love a good home security system. This house has six cameras. My next one will likely have twice as many. Mostly outdoors, because my partner has this weird thing about not being surveiled indoors. I can’t even put a motion detector on the stairs. Six cameras give us pretty good coverage, but only because there are choke points getting into the back yard. Recently, the big excitement has been identifying the cats going over our six foot fence. We keep our cat inside because half the year they live in MT, where the life expectancy of outdoor cats is significantly shortened. I invented a word, “owled”, to describe what happened to my partner’s last cat when he got out in MT.

When we hear the door bell, I can usually tell who is or was there with video shots of the front door and street. But currently, we lack hearing the doorbell when we are out of town. I had been thinking seriously about a door bell camera. And then it came out that the primary company selling these systems had apparently made no attempt at security. Apparently those videos of people at your front door go out unencrypted over the Internet. Not something I would happily do in normal circumstances, but esp not in the face of the peer pressure of belonging to a computer privacy committee in an engineering society.

walter said...

tcrosse said...The guy at the malt shop probably spit in it before the cap went on.
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A friend of mine told me about getting a shake at a fast food joint in "urban" Milwaukee a couple years ago.
The gal dispensing it didn't know he could see her working when she lowered the top of cup to counter level and used her other hand to sweep the miscellaneous oarticular matter residing under the dispenser into his cup, then filled/covered it with goodness.

Jim at said...

In Seattle, the outrage wouldn't be the man sipping the straw.
The outrage would be the plastic straw itself.

They're illegal.

The Godfather said...

In "Down and Out in Paris and London", George Orwell describes what the kitchen staff in an expensive Parisian restaurant does to the food before it's served. It goes far beyond sipping a drink through a straw, but that's OK by me because it's a political statement.

mockturtle said...

Jim observes: In Seattle, the outrage wouldn't be the man sipping the straw.
The outrage would be the plastic straw itself.


Not just the accursed straw but the emissions from the delivery vehicle. But I agree that having a milkshake delivered to a spoiled child is silly. The kid will probably grow up to be obese. Another Seattle no-no.

CWJ said...

Mea culpa. I played the clip with the sound off and relied upon the subtitles. I've now had a chance to play it with the sound on and hear that the tv station did try to contact DoorDash. Still. There are other things that render this incident suspect.

If you are making a delivery, why are you looking at the security camera rather than the door. Indeed, why would you pick that moment while looking directly at the camera to drink the kid's milkshake. If you're looking at the camera because the kid is asking who's there, and that's where the speaker is, again why would you pick that moment to drink the milkshake. If the kid is asking who's there, why doesn't he see the guy drinking his milkshake. Not to mention that the guy takes off immediately without waiting to see if he'll get a tip or not. Also, unless there was some other incident that night that would spark someone to review the footage of his doorbell cam, why is anyone reviewing the previous evening's recording anyway? Ann's already mentioned the lack of packaging and naked straw. Driving around with potentially unsecured drinks in your car is a hell of a way to run a delivery service. Finally Cold Stone Creamery is not cheap, and unless the "victim" was still in some sort of trial period, DoorDash's minimum markup is $6.99 according to their website. Ordering a single milkshake is financially idiotic. I still smell a set-up.

Amadeus 48 said...

“It seemed so piddlingly small. “

Oh the humanity! Glad yhey didn’t show that.

I will drink your milkshake.

mockturtle said...

CWJ suspects a setup and he's probably right.