An Instacart shopper has gone viral after calling the cops on what he described as a ‘Karen.’ In a two-part TikTok series, which has amassed over 1 million cumulative views, Max Kanner (@maxkanner15) shared how his dealings with an Instacart shopper quickly went off the rails.
In essence, Kanner claims that the woman “flipped out” when he asked to scan her ID on his phone, saying that she was uncomfortable with this. He says that while he repeatedly explained that it was Instacart’s policy to do this, the woman refused to relent. He notes that while she was obviously overage, Instacart wouldn’t let her keep her order if she didn’t have her ID scanned. So, he started grabbing the shopping bags to return this order.
As he started grabbing bags, he claims she started grabbing too, and began recording him. At this point, he called Instacart and explained that the customer refused to have ID scanned—and Instacart, he said, agreed with him, saying that they would need to refund the order.
At this point, the woman threatened to call the police—but Kanner got there first. He said he decided to record her too, and then shared footage of the encounter, where the woman reiterates that she didn’t want her ID scanned.
“I don’t know why you’re being difficult with me,” the TikToker said.
“You are at my house,” the woman shot back.
As he tried to take another bag, the woman could be seen intervening, with Kanner asking her not to touch him. He reiterated that he was doing what Instacart told him to do, and as the woman accused him of “making things up,” he retorted, “When I was grabbing the bag you came at me.”
In the second part, Kanner shared more footage of himself and the woman in conversation with the police. According to him, the woman lied several times to the cops. Her first purported lie was that he tried to take the order back, with Kanner noting that she was “missing the part” when Instacart told him to do so.
The second was when she told the police that she was telling him what to say to Instacart, when, in actuality, Kanner says that she was “screaming” at him. The woman also allegedly claimed that the man gave her “misinformation,” and that she used her phone to call the police, when she was actually using her phone to record him.
Kanner also claimed that the woman insulted him by implying that he was a “he/she” and that he came from a poor neighborhood. At one point, the TikToker called the woman a ‘Karen,’ which, in turn, irked both the woman and the police. Despite the woman now saying she’d scan the ID, Kanner said he was uncomfortable and that Instacart was already processing the refund. So, he left.
He says that he later showed his parents the video. They noted that she comes from a wealthy area that has its own police force, and questioned whether the cops sided with the woman because of this.
Ultimately, he says that Instacart was “really helpful.” The company flagged the woman’s address so that he would never have to deliver to her again.
Kanner didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via TikTok comment. Instacart didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via email.
In the comments, users took Kanner’s side. “She doesn’t want a random person to have an her ID, but she gave a random person her address mind you,” one wrote.
“It’s not just Instacart policy, it’s the LAW to ID for alcohol purchases,” another added.
“It’s honestly that age range,” a third remarked. “They feel [like] everyone is trying to steal their info. Not sure how we can steal info from scanning their ID. I don’t think like a criminal, though.”
While a fourth speculated, “I bet it’s not her first time doing this, she must’ve gotten away with it other times if so.”
A fifth theorized that “100% her ID is expired or suspended. She’d have to do the same thing if she went in person and thought she could work around it.”
Does Instacart always require an ID for alcohol purchases?
According to an Instacart website targeted toward drivers, the shopping service only delivers alcohol to those aged 21 or older.
To release the order, the customer must also present an “Instacart-accepted form of ID” to the driver, along with their date of birth, to verify their identity. The site also recommends telling customers about the policy prior to their delivery because “the customer experience is better if the customer knows what to expect.”
Other rules from Instacart’s alcohol policy include never leaving the alcohol unattended and not allowing an underage or intoxicated person to collect the order.
Charlotte is an internet culture writer with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Master’s degree in Magazine Journalism from City St George’s, University of London.
A lottery pool at an Ohio elementary school is celebrating a bittersweet victory after a $1 million Powerball win.According to the Ohio Lottery, a lottery pool of employees at Ashland’s Crestview Elementary School won $1 million in the Aug. 6 Powerball drawing. The win came after a member of the pool, Mary Jo, died from complications of cancer in 2021.Video above: Why is Alabama one of only 5 U.S. states without a lottery?Lottery officials say the pool organizer, Karen, purchased the winning auto-pick ticket at a Circle K in Seville. She told lottery officials that she was having coffee and checking their tickets when she realized they had won.“I was talking to my daughter on the phone, and I was like, ‘I think we won a million dollars!’ I started texting everyone and they were like, ‘No way, no way,’ and so they checked the numbers themselves, and they were like, we did win!” Karen told the lottery.The pool continued after Mary Jo’s death, with the participants kicking in money for her each time they play.“She’s been our guardian angel. She taught kindergarten here for years, and she was in the original group, so we couldn’t leave her out,” Karen said. “We’ve been paying all that time and for her too, so that makes it even sweeter.”After mandatory state and federal taxes, each winner will receive $72,000. The winners all have different plans for their winnings, from vacations to new cars to paying off mortgages, the lottery says.Mary Jo’s portion of the prize is going to her children.
A lottery pool at an Ohio elementary school is celebrating a bittersweet victory after a $1 million Powerball win.
According to the Ohio Lottery, a lottery pool of employees at Ashland’s Crestview Elementary School won $1 million in the Aug. 6 Powerball drawing. The win came after a member of the pool, Mary Jo, died from complications of cancer in 2021.
Video above: Why is Alabama one of only 5 U.S. states without a lottery?
Lottery officials say the pool organizer, Karen, purchased the winning auto-pick ticket at a Circle K in Seville. She told lottery officials that she was having coffee and checking their tickets when she realized they had won.
“I was talking to my daughter on the phone, and I was like, ‘I think we won a million dollars!’ I started texting everyone and they were like, ‘No way, no way,’ and so they checked the numbers themselves, and they were like, we did win!” Karen told the lottery.
The pool continued after Mary Jo’s death, with the participants kicking in money for her each time they play.
“She’s been our guardian angel. She taught kindergarten here for years, and she was in the original group, so we couldn’t leave her out,” Karen said. “We’ve been paying all that time and for her too, so that makes it even sweeter.”
After mandatory state and federal taxes, each winner will receive $72,000. The winners all have different plans for their winnings, from vacations to new cars to paying off mortgages, the lottery says.
Mary Jo’s portion of the prize is going to her children.
Jodi and Chelsea are going all over the worldwide web this week, starting with updates on TikTok’s favorite courtroom drama, the Karen Read trial (5:50), before finally being ready to talk about the international implications of Hawk Tuah Girl (16:20). Then, Jodi tells Chelsea what she’s looking forward to this year, like the potential of Gladiator II and Wicked: Part One becoming 2024’s Barbenheimer (32:24), and a very Josh Hartnett summer (39:24). Finally, they talk about the last two episodes of Clipped, the portrayal of the notorious “silly rabbit” interview, and how the finale left them feeling (46:15), before sharing their personal obsessions of the week (1:0 0:15).
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Welcome back to the Connected States, the project that involves me living in a van for a year, driving around and telling stories. After going live last week I was absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response. I received so many tips, well-wishes, and offers of help that I haven’t been able to respond to them all yet. It was truly moving,
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When we last left off I was in Iowa City, Iowa, which is not a very creative name for a city, so I moved on. By that point, though I’d left myself very little time. I needed to be in Detroit by 9:30am the next day so I could finally do my TSA Pre-check interview, and Detroit was 490 miles away. I drove until I got very tired, whereupon I pulled into yet another Walmart parking lot and slept for 2.5 hours, and then kept going. My dad had recommended The Burning Room, a book by Michael Connelly, so I downloaded it on Audible and that did a good job of keeping me alert.
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The real reason I was heading to Michigan was to see one of my oldest and best friends get married. David and I go back to 7th grade, but many of the guests would be people we had gone to high school with. It’s still a pretty tight-knit crew, as, for various reasons, many of us had left our small California town for Brooklyn during the last decade, and so we’d formed a sort of “I miss real burritos” support group. Anyway, the wedding would be a couple hours north but first we decided to explore Detroit proper a little. We met up with David’s old roommate Blair who grew up in the area and had since returned, prodigal son style.
If I had to pick one word to describe Detroit it would be “powder keg,” which is two words, so I would have lost that game. But that’s what it is. There is so much potential energy in that city, and it’s just waiting for something to set it off. It’s also volatile as hell. I’ve never seen a place that had been so obviously fucked by a single industry. Big auto burned these people, and these people are pissed.
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Much of what you see on the news is true. There are rows upon rows of abandoned houses. Some houses—and not just a couple—have been burned to the ground. Everywhere you go you see desperate people. But Detroit is on the cusp of major changes. Real estate is so cheap that a lot of rich, white tech-industry type folks are buying up massive amounts of property, just because it’s cheap and they can. The artists have already moved in, and just like in any other city, once the artists move in they yuppies aren’t far behind.
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And so you see the original Detroiters in a hard spot. They want Detroit to keep its identity and so change is fearsome, but they also realize that what the city needs more than anything is jobs. And so there’s a precarious acceptance of the new wave pushing in. Tech is being welcomed in, as long as it doesn’t overstep its bounds. But it will. It always does. And I don’t know what the aftermath to that will be.
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What I found to be most inspiring, though, is the creative response Detroit has had to all of this change. Take, for example, Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project on the East Side, which has been around for 29 years now. It takes found objects, rubble, and abandoned houses and transforms them into something beautiful and inspiring.
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Photo: Brent Rose
[More from the Heidelberg Project]
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[Gabby in front of the MBAD African Bead Museum]
The same could be said of MBAD African Bead Museum. Not only does this shop, inside of a highly decorated but otherwise unassuming house, have the most amazing collection of beads I’ve ever seen, but it serves as a conduit for the community. There I spoke with a woman named Gabby, of the Detroit Poetry Society, whose greeting for everyone was “Peace,” a sort of mantra she hoped would come true. She talked of the changes she’s seen, and of the importance of finding common ground among all people, which isn’t so unlike the goal of Connected States.
Photo: Brent Rose
Photo: Brent Rose
The area around the MBAD Museum hosts an incredible array of open-air art, similar to the Heidelberg Project, but this is mostly made by the artist Olayami Dabls, who owns the museum as well. It’s at once breathtaking and heartbreaking.
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[Wedding backdrop]
But Michigan isn’t just Detroit. We left the city for Saginaw, a couple hours north, where my friend Leila, the bride, grew up. I kept my van (Ashley, “The Beast”) parked either at her parents beautiful home, where the wedding took place, or in the hotel parking lot where some other weddings guests were staying. The wedding was a three-day Bangladeshi affair, but I stayed for five. I think I needed the peace and quiet, and I’ll forever be grateful for the hospitality Leila’s family showed me.
Photo: Brent Rose
[Late night hangs in the van with some of my favorite people in the world.]
I have to say, taking the van to a wedding is kind of the best. This is the third one I’ve brought it to, and aside from the fact that you don’t have to pay for a potentially expensive hotel room, you can park it pretty much wherever you want and set up camp. It ended up being a sweet spot for after-partying, but it served an even more useful purpose.
Just before the wedding was set to begin, the sky opened up and the rain came pouring down in buckets. This was just before the groom’s family and friends were supposed to parade to the house and strike a deal to gain entry (a really fun tradition). There were dozens of us standing in a field and getting absolutely soaked. So we piled into the van. Not everyone, of course, but we managed to get 14 people in there, including the groom, who stayed dry for the 15 or so minutes before the storm passed. It was clutch. I even broadcast my first Periscope video from the middle of the chaos.
Saginaw hosted another first for me. The bride’s family had an old Sea-Doo jet ski in the garage, and we busted it out on the small lake there. We tied a rope to the back of it and I pulled my trusty surfboard out of the trunk, a 5’ 8” Rusty DWART made with Varial foam. Making the transition from prone to standing was extremely tricky. You have to get dragged on your belly fast enough so the board starts planing. Then you wedge your back foot against the traction pad, and slide your front knee up underneath you. Then you need to take the rope with your back hand, so you’re reaching across your body, and use your front hand to stabilize the nose of the board as you pop up.
It took about six tries before I got it, but once I did, it was unbelievably satisfying. I’ve never gone anywhere near that fast on a surfboard, and the lake was so glassy it was like carving through a mirror. Also, falling really hurts at that speed. I had a good bellyflop dismount and it felt like the entire lake punched me in the gut.
Leaving Saginaw, I stopped to get an oil change, and then I just sat there for an hour, unsure of which way to go. This was the first time this trip that I could really pick any direction I wanted. I’d originally thought I’d head back through Detroit and spend some time with friends and family in Chicago, but people kept speaking with reverence of the Upper Peninsula (“the UP”) of Michigan. So I put the question to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. It was time to see if the social experiment part of this project had any legs.
Within half an hour I had almost 50 responses, most of them saying to go north, citing reasons like they’ve seen Chicago a million times, and they wanted something less explored. I took this all in. I knew there would be better opportunities for tech stories in Detroit and Chicago, but I’d probably be passing through that way in the early fall anyway… Screw it, I’m going north!
A gentleman named Ben pointed me toward the Traverse City Film Festival, which is Michael Moore’s baby. I got word that the opening night party would be that night, so I quickly reached out to them, said I was with Gizmodo, and could I have press credentials. Five minutes later I was set and driving thataway.
Photo: Brent Rose
[Top of the Park Place Hotel, with an abomination of a “Manhattan”]
Nick didn’t live in TC, but he had a friend there named Phil who he linked me up with. Phil recommended I check out the Park Place Hotel which would provide a view of the whole town. It was beautiful up there, but I ordered a Manhattan and it was served on the rocks, so the whole place should probably be burnt to the ground. I did meet a lovely woman named Wendy who was there with her whole family. She’d lived in Traverse City most of her life, and made me feel very welcome.
From there, Phil advised me to check out a Cider House. I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the best cider I’ve ever had in my life. It was so perfectly balanced and it didn’t have any of that cloying sweetness. The lavender and elderberry were especially good. Really nice and dry. I spoke to Karen who runs and/or owns the place (forgive me for being unsure, but I was drinking cider), who told me all about their organic process. I highly recommend quaffing it out if you can find it.
Photo: Brent Rose
Photo: Brent Rose
[These people randomly came up to me and insisted on taking a photo together.]
From there I found the the Traverse City Film Festival party. An open-air deal that took over two city blocks. It was there that I finally met Phil, who was there with his friends. We gorged on the local foods on offer, which were absolutely amazing. The whole food scene in Traverse City is insane. I’ve never seen a U.S. town so small with so much good grub. Definitely a foodie haven. We spend the rest of the party listening to the lyrical stylings of Rick Chyme, which I really enjoyed.
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[Rick Chyme on the mic]
It turned out that Phil’s girlfriend Emily is good friends with Karen, so we ended up after-partying in the closed-up pub. The after-after party was in the van, where Phil, Rick, and I ended up lounging as I made maple old fashioneds and sazeracs.
Photo: Brent Rose
In the morning, Phil came through and showed me the project he’s been working on, a book for the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl. The foreword was by Dwight Clark, so I was sold. I flipped through the book and said I’d get one for my dad for Christmas, which is true. You can check it out here. Plug alert over.
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Basically, I couldn’t imagine a better beginning to the social experiment element of this trip. The very first try found me good people, good food, good cider, and good times in a place I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. Truly incredible.
Today I’ll be continuing north to the Upper Peninsula. Maybe to Pictured Rocks, which I hear is incredible. Giz’s Andrew Liszewski made me promise I’d eat some fudge in Mackinac, and well, a promise is a promise. If you’ve got good people or places or things up north, let me know, would you? I hope to be updating from the road more regularly, so I hope you’ll follow along. You can find more photos from this leg in a gallery at ConnectedStates.com. Thanks for reading.
-Brent Rose 7.30.15 Traverse City, MI
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Connected States is a new series from Brent Rose in collaboration with Gizmodo about living a truly mobile life. Brent will be traveling the U.S. in a high-tech van, telling stories from the road. New episodes will appear every week on Gizmodo, with more content being released in between. He is currently soliciting ideas for places to go, things to see, and people to talk to. Follow him on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and ConnectedStates.com
All photos in this entry were taken with a Sony A7s. The video was shot with a GoPro Hero4 Black, and the Instagram shots came from my LG G4.
A WOMAN was left stunned when a furious “Karen” told her to cover up her skimpy bikini as she tried to enjoy a day in the sun.
Aurea Miranda faced the full wrath of her aggressor as she attempted to film herself dancing near to Freedom Lake, New York.
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Aurea Miranda was told off by an angry woman over the skimpiness of her bikiniCredit: Jam Press
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The aggressive lady had a lot to say about Aurea’s choice of beach outfitsCredit: Jam Press
Aurea, who is a dancer originally from Mexico, barely had time to enjoy her day out before an unidentified, irate woman stormed over.
The so-called “Karen” insisted she “get her a** covered” because her sons were staring at her.
She said: “You see those group of boys over there? Those are my boys.
“They’re staring at your a**, which is hanging out in the middle of a public place.”
The bizarre rant continued: “Do you need a pair of shorts? Because I have an extra pair.”
“What do you mean?” asked Aurea innocently.
“I mean get you’re a** covered. That’s what I mean. Thank you,” the woman shot back.
The stunning dark-haired dancer asked if there was any rule stating she couldn’t wear a revealing bikini.
And the lady, dubbed in the comments as “beach Karen”, hit back by arguing their was a rule against “public nudity” – despite the young TikToker clearly wearing clothes.
She spat: “Yeah there is, it’s called nudity. You can’t be nude on a beach like this. It’s a public place.”
Aurea later confirmed with park workers that her swimsuit was absolutely fine to wear.
She posted the clip on TikTok, where it amassed more than 3.1million views as plenty of users were outraged at the way the woman had spoken to her.
Married content creator Clawed Beauty (@clawed_beauty101) is a self-described Christ follower, who doesn’t mind showing her body.
However, she was furious when a random lady on the beach told her to “cover up” her stomach because it was “difficult” for her husband to control himself around her.
She thinks she looks cute and disagrees with any haters who call her style inappropriate.
“How I feel walking into the gym with my cute new gym set, ready to p*ss off some Karens who think I don’t dress appropriately,” the woman told her TikTok fans.
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Aurea stood her ground against the ‘Karen’ who told her to ‘cover up’Credit: Jam Press
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The stunning Mexican dancer was baffled at the woman’s unwelcome commentsCredit: Jam Press
The bond between a Ralston teacher and her fifth-grade student is stronger than ever. Janice Rhods is mourning her baby boy. He recently died after dealing with a rare heart issue. But about a month before, fifth-grade student Adrianna Case stepped up to help in a big way.It’s been about two weeks since Rhods lost a huge piece of her world.”I think of his smile. Honestly, I think of him now in peace,” Rhods said.Her 5-and-a-half-month-old son Caden suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome.”His life was one that was filled of pain and hospital stays. He was happiest when he was outside, and he only got that for a couple months,” Rhods said. “Out of the 5-and-a-half months that he was alive, he was home for two of them.”In November, Caden caught a common cold which led to a fever and a high heart rate.”Everything escalated super quickly,” Rhods said.Caden passed away on Nov. 17.”A combination of all of that, they think his heart was just overworking. His heart was super, super fragile,” Rhods said.Rhods teaches fifth grade at Karen Western Elementary School in Ralston. So far this school year, she has spent a lot of time out of the classroom to be by Caden’s side.”You’re trying to be there for your son and for my two other kids I have at home and then I’m also trying to be there for my students,” she said.Rhods’ student, Case, noticed that struggle about a month before Caden died, and decided she wanted to do whatever she could to help. “I got him a blanket and I felt like that wasn’t enough so I started a GoFundMe,” Case said.With the help of her mom, Case was able to create a GoFundMe, raising $2,000 for her favorite teacher.”I thought it would just be, not like to $2,000. I thought it would just be like a couple hundred dollars,” Case said.For Rhods, the joy of all of this is about so much more than the money.”It’s more of, what she did to show her compassion and caring for others. Because she showed that for me, I know she’d do that to other people,” Rhods said.”I truly love her,” Case said about Rhods.Rhods said she’ll go back to work Monday. She said she doesn’t think she’d be able to make it through if it weren’t for her amazing students like Adrianna.
RALSTON, Neb. —
The bond between a Ralston teacher and her fifth-grade student is stronger than ever. Janice Rhods is mourning her baby boy. He recently died after dealing with a rare heart issue. But about a month before, fifth-grade student Adrianna Case stepped up to help in a big way.
It’s been about two weeks since Rhods lost a huge piece of her world.
“I think of his smile. Honestly, I think of him now in peace,” Rhods said.
Her 5-and-a-half-month-old son Caden suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
“His life was one that was filled of pain and hospital stays. He was happiest when he was outside, and he only got that for a couple months,” Rhods said. “Out of the 5-and-a-half months that he was alive, he was home for two of them.”
In November, Caden caught a common cold which led to a fever and a high heart rate.
“Everything escalated super quickly,” Rhods said.
Caden passed away on Nov. 17.
“A combination of all of that, they think his heart was just overworking. His heart was super, super fragile,” Rhods said.
Rhods teaches fifth grade at Karen Western Elementary School in Ralston. So far this school year, she has spent a lot of time out of the classroom to be by Caden’s side.
“You’re trying to be there for your son and for my two other kids I have at home and then I’m also trying to be there for my students,” she said.
Rhods’ student, Case, noticed that struggle about a month before Caden died, and decided she wanted to do whatever she could to help.
“I got him a blanket and I felt like that wasn’t enough so I started a GoFundMe,” Case said.
With the help of her mom, Case was able to create a GoFundMe, raising $2,000 for her favorite teacher.
“I thought it would just be, not like to $2,000. I thought it would just be like a couple hundred dollars,” Case said.
For Rhods, the joy of all of this is about so much more than the money.
“It’s more of, what she did to show her compassion and caring for others. Because she showed that for me, I know she’d do that to other people,” Rhods said.
“I truly love her,” Case said about Rhods.
Rhods said she’ll go back to work Monday. She said she doesn’t think she’d be able to make it through if it weren’t for her amazing students like Adrianna.
