5-Year-Old Boy Orders $1200 Worth Of Ice Cream Using Dad's Phone

An Australian man was in for a surprise after his 5-year-old son used his phone to purchase $1,200 worth of ice cream and had it sent to his workplace.

The 5-year-old from Sydney was supposedly playing Tetris on his dad’s phone when he helped himself to his dad’s credit card and ordered several boxes of ice creams from the gelato store Messina via Uber Eats.

The unsuspecting father discovered the huge order after a delivery driver with Uber Eats called him while attempting to deliver the products at his workplace. The father, who wasn’t working on that day, had to rush to his office to accept the order, 7News reported.

Several orders of ice cream tubs, seven boxes of cakes, candles, jars of dulce de leche spread and five bottles of milk raked up a bill of $1200.

Messina re-shared the hilarious text from a family friend on their Instagram story.

"The little dude was playing with the dad’s phone and he ended up ordering $1,200 of Messina to the dad’s workplace. He didn’t know until the driver called him trying to drop it off," the text shared by the gelato company said. "So the dad had to go to his work in Newtown to pick it up."

The order was apparently larger than what the father eventually brought home. He left some of the delicious treats for his workmates at the fire station where he works, news.com.au reported.

The amusing story left some viewers speculating about the apt punishment for the mischievous child. "I’d probably ban them from eating the ice cream," one viewer wrote.

In a similar incident, a 4-year-old from New York ordered 51 cases of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles using his mother’s Amazon account. The order cost around $2,600, CBS New York reported. A GoFundMe was set up to help raise the money to pay for the popsicles after Amazon could not take the order back.