In 2021, Noah was 4 years old and had an absolute love for SpongeBob.
So much so that one day, using his mom’s cellphone, he went on Amazon and started shopping. Not one ice pop, nor ten. He bought 918, distributed across 51 boxes, and sent them straight to his aunt’s house in Brooklyn. When Jennifer Bryant, his mother, checked the account, she found a charge of 2.618,85 dollars and a “no-refund” policy that left her with no way out: the ice pops had already been purchased, and nobody refunds you for 918 ice pops.
Bryant is a social work student at New York University and the mother of two other children, so that financial blow was no joke. Luckily, her classmate Katie Schloss launched a GoFundMe campaign that had covered the full cost within 24 hours and ended up raising nearly 11.000 dollars. Amazon also stepped in: it contacted the family and donated the equivalent of the order to a charity.
Bryant, who said that Noah has ASD, said she would use the extra money for his education and support. In the end, Brooklyn’s most expensive prank ended up paying for something much more important than a freezer full of SpongeBob.