Young Boy Calls 911 Asking For McDonald’s & Police Officer Delivers

Anyone who has ever felt that deep hunger causing you to crave a specific kind of food that you can’t get your hands on knows it can feel like a bit of an emergent situation. Unfortunately, that is just what happened to a young boy from Michigan named Iziah while his grandmother was sleeping last weekend.

Believing he was experiencing an emergency, the 5-year-old did what parents everywhere teach their children to do: he called 911.

While 911 dispatchers across the United States have heard just about everything when it comes to people calling in for help, little Iziah still managed to catch the operator on the other end of the phone call off guard as he pleaded for a solution to his hunger.

Per ABC 13 News, here is a transcript of the conversation between the young boy and the 911 operator:

Dispatcher: Kent County 911. What’s your emergency?

Iziah: Can you bring me McDonald’s?

Dispatcher: I’m sorry, what?

Iziah: Can you bring me McDonald’s?

Dispatcher: No, I can’t bring you McDonald’s.

According to the news outlet, Iziah used a phone that had been deactivated for years to call 911 for help. Most cell phones – especially if they can be connected to the internet – can still call 911 even if they are not currently in service.

Officer takes #McDonalds to 5-year-old after 911 call | Details: https://t.co/YDA4DMX5gf pic.twitter.com/vUKPJQYxNp

— WFTV Channel 9 (@WFTV) April 19, 2019

Sara Kuberski, the dispatcher who received the phone call, told ABC 13 News that children finding a deactivated phone and calling into 911 while they play with the phone is extremely common. Most people do not realize the phone can still call for help.

Kuberski contacted the Wyoming Police Department who sent out officer Dan Patterson to check on the 5-year-old and make sure everything was all right at his home.

The officer admitted to thinking it was hilarious that a 5-year-old called 911 to order McDonald’s. As Patterson made his way to the young boy’s home, he realized he was going to drive right past a McDonald’s. So, he decided to stop and get little Iziah something to eat.

"I figured – hey, I'm driving past @McDonalds on my way there and I might as well get him something," Officer Dan Patterson said. https://t.co/Hck5Ey9QnU

— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) April 19, 2019

After arriving, Patterson knocked on the door to check on the boy. When no one answered the door, he decided to knock on Iziah’s window instead.

“The first thing he said to me was ‘my grandma’s gonna to be so mad. Can you please go away?'” Patterson recalled.

Iziah’s grandmother, however, was not upset by the situation. Instead, she embraced it as an opportunity for her grandson to learn the difference between what is and is not an emergency.

When asked, Iziah said he thought a police officer delivering him McDonald’s was “something funny.”