Loan Shark Sent Over 20 Food Delivery Riders to a House in Braddell as an April Fool’s Prank

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Aveyn Toh
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Setting a handful of failed pranks aside, April’s fool pranks are usually harmless, and for most parts, funny.

That’s the whole point of pranks anyway. They are supposed to be funny to everyone involved.

Here in Singapore, someone thought it would be a good idea to prank the occupants of a house in Braddell Heights by sending over 20 food delivery riders.

And it would have been a fairly tame prank had it not came from a loan shark.

The people on the other side of that prank are definitely not laughing.

An endless chain of food deliveries that they didn’t order

In an interview with XinMin RiBao(新明日报), the 40-year-old wife of the homeowner said that around 20 delivery riders arrived, one after another, between 1:30pm to 3pm at their doorstep to deliver food they have “supposed” to have ordered.

They didn’t make any orders.

At that time, the whole family’s at home, including her husband, her mother-in-law, her kid, and her domestic maid.

Surprised, the husband rejected all the deliveries since they have not ordered any and told the riders that he’ll be reporting this odd incident to the police.

Luckily though, once the riders know that this is probably a prank, they didn’t bother the family any further and left.

Loan sharks aren’t a very creative bunch, are they?

The wife has heard of a past incidence where a loan shark “pranked” one of his lenders by doing the exact same thing.

She also revealed that she received a call from an Ah Long who claimed that her maid had borrowed money from him.

Naturally, she was shocked when she got that call.

She confronted the maid and the maid admitted to dealing with the loan shark.

The maid said that her family back in Indonesia was ill and needed a large amount of money urgently, so she had to resort to borrowing the money.

In her desperation, she came across a loan ad on her phone and decided to apply.

According to the wife, she said that the maid thought Singapore is a very safe place and that the loan she took out was merely a normal loan, the sort where you can slowly pay back.

The maid wasn’t aware that she was actually borrowing from a loan shark until much later.

The police are currently investigating the matter.

Throwing stones at someone who fell into a well

There’s another throng of victims in this story.

As you may already know, our food delivery riders worked tirelessly to make sure we could enjoy the food we love at the comfort of our home, far away from potentially exposing ourselves to COVID-19 during the pandemic.

And ordering fake deliveries, like in this case, only do them more harm than good.

Based on a 4-second short clip which was uploaded to a Facebook post on “Fabrications About Singapore”, it shows around 5 food delivery riders standing about, tapping furiously on their mobile phones outside the house, likely to report this “prank” to their respective delivery companies.

Not sure if the riders will still be paid for their efforts though.

If not, that’s literally the definition of a popular Chinese saying, “throwing stones at someone who fell into a well” (落井下石). I truly empathize with them, these typically underappreciated pandemic heroes.

The restaurants that prepared the meals likely got burned in the process as well.

A “prank” that ended up causing ill will all around.

Featured Image: Facebook (Fabrications About Singapore)

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