Uber Eats driver outsmarts customers scheme to score free food and takes it for herself: Aint gonna play me

She made these fast-food fraudsters eat dirt.Stealing someone’s takeout delivery order is in bad taste.Still, it’s a recurring malfeasance suffered by foodies nationwide, from the Big Apple to the Lone Star State and beyond. But when a no-nonsense Uber Eats courier caught a couple of creeps trying to swipe her customer’s chow, she quickly quashed the scheme, leaving the would-be thieves hungry and humiliated. “You ain’t gonna play me,” Arlene, a delivery woman from Los Angeles, declared in a viral confessional, recounting the incident to over 1.2 million video viewers. “I picked up an order for $10 for Chick-fil-A going one mile,” she explained. With the grub in tow, the redhead pulled up to its final destination, an apartment building on a bustling main street with tons of foot traffic.

Upon arrival, Arlene learned she’d need an access code to enter the high-rise and hand off the fare. But her repeated phone calls and messages to the customer went unanswered, and Arlene grew suspicious. “I’m standing outside, and there are these two guys standing outside next to their car, kicking the s- -t,” she remembered, adding that Uber Eats cancels deliveries that are not accepted by recipients within an eight-minute grace period. After waiting the allotted time and notifying the company of the patron’s unresponsiveness, Arlene claims a representative advised her to leave the food in a safe space near the main entrance of the residence and snap a quick photo of the drop-off. “As I’m dropping it off and taking the picture, the two guys who were by their car start walking towards the door,” she said.“I’m like, ‘Hi.

Is this your order?’ and they’re like, ‘No, but we live here.’”She then asked the pair to let her into the building, but when they refused, claiming tenants aren’t allowed to grant strangers access inside, alarm bells began ringing in Arlene’s head.  “I clock it.[They] want the f- -king food,” s...