Mom left phone with 6-year-old. Amazon showed up with a mountain of boxes the next day
This is the modern day equivalent of leaving a kid alone in a toy store.

Six-year-old Katelyn Lunt standing next to Amazon delivery boxes
Kids are becoming fluent in technology at astonishingly young ages. A 2024 Common Sense Media report found that children under 8 now spend an average of 2 hours and 52 minutes a day on screens (much of it unsupervised). And as any parent knows, that combination of curiosity, confidence, and easy-to-navigate apps can lead to some very unexpected outcomes.
In fact, accidental kid-driven online purchases have been steadily rising for years, with Amazon and other platforms reporting thousands of refund requests each month from parents whose little ones mastered “Buy Now” faster than the alphabet.
That’s exactly what happened to 6-year-old Katelyn Lunt, who caused a whole lot of chaos after her online shopping spree, as per ABC News. In 2018, the first-grader from Utah used her mother's Amazon account to buy herself $350 worth of toys and video games.

According to Good Morning America, Lunt's mother Catherine was stunned to see Amazon delivery trucks pulling up in front of their home.
"Our family came home and the truck pulls up and all of these boxes are being pulled out of the truck," Catherine, who had no idea about Lunt's online splurge, told the news outlet.
Earlier that week, Catherine had told Lunt she could order one Barbie doll as a prize for doing extra chores at home. But the little girl had something else in mind. Instead of stopping at one toy, she added pages upon pages of items to the online shopping cart.
While her mom was tracking unrelated orders on the Amazon app, she suddenly noticed the avalanche of extra toys Lunt had slyly purchased. Catherine tried to cancel everything, but it was too late. The boxes were already on their way.
"I loooooove Amazon!"
Six-year-old is busted for her sneaky Amazon splurge when her delivery shows up and mom realizes she went rogue, ordered $350 worth of toys: https://t.co/0wZJnpowI9 pic.twitter.com/C38oqE7VOD
— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 15, 2018
"They just started unloading box after box after box," Lunt's older cousin, Ria Diyaolu, recalled to BuzzFeed News. "Her mom went on her Amazon account and saw three pages of things she had ordered. She knew exactly what she was doing when she did it. I was so surprised that a 6-year-old knew how to do one-click, next-day shipping. She did not get grounded but she does not have access to the internet for a month."
Catherine learned the hard way that leaving her phone unattended with her daughter was a huge mistake. But instead of simply punishing Lunt, she decided to turn the mishap into a teachable moment.
Rather than keeping all the toys, the Lunt family chose to donate them to kids at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. CBS Philadelphia's official YouTube page shared photos and footage of Lunt and her mother delivering the toys—transforming an honest mistake into an act of generosity.
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Catherine later admitted that she should have been far more vigilant about handing over her phone without any restrictions, and she hopes other parents learn from her experience. With so many children navigating devices at earlier ages than ever before, she wants families to know about the security controls available on phones and shopping apps, so they don’t end up in the same situation.
Sure, Katelyn lost her internet privileges for a month, but she also gained something better: the chance to brighten the day of kids who needed it most. And Catherine gained a valuable reminder that in the age of one-click shopping, even a six-year-old can accidentally become a VIP Amazon customer.
Sometimes the best lessons happen when things don’t go as planned.
This article originally appeared 4 months ago.






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Resurfaced video of French skier's groin incident has people giving the announcer a gold medal
"The boys took a beating on that one."
Downhill skiing is a sport rife with injuries, but not usually this kind.
A good commentator can make all the difference when watching sports, even when an event goes smoothly. But it's when something goes wrong that great announcers rise to the top. There's no better example of a great announcer in a surprise moment than when French skier Yannick Bertrand took a gate to the groin in a 2007 super-G race.
Competitive skiers fly down runs at incredible speeds, often exceeding 60 mph. Hitting something hard at that speed would definitely hurt, but hitting something hard with a particularly sensitive part of your body would be excruciating. So when Bertrand slammed right into a gate family-jewels-first, his high-pitched scream was unsurprising. What was surprising was the perfect commentary that immediately followed.
This is a clip you really just have to see and hear to fully appreciate:
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It's unclear who the announcer is, even after multiple Google inquiries, which is unfortunate because that gentleman deserves a medal. The commentary gets better with each repeated viewing, with highlights like:
"The gate the groin for Yannick Bertrand, and you could hear it. And if you're a man, you could feel it."
"Oh, the Frenchman. Oh-ho, monsieurrrrrr."
"The boys took a beating on that one."
"That guy needs a hug."
"Those are the moments that change your life if you're a man, I tell you what."
"When you crash through a gate, when you do it at high rate of speed, it's gonna hurt and it's going to leave a mark in most cases. And in this particular case, not the area where you want to leave a mark."
Imagine watching a man take a hit to the privates at 60 mph and having to make impromptu commentary straddling the line between professionalism and acknowledging the universal reality of what just happened. There are certain things you can't say on network television that you might feel compelled to say. There's a visceral element to this scenario that could easily be taken too far in the commentary, and the inherent humor element could be seen as insensitive and offensive if not handled just right.
The announcer nailed it. 10/10. No notes.
The clip frequently resurfaces during the Winter Olympic Games, though the incident didn't happen during an Olympic event. Yannick Bertrand was competing at the FIS World Cup super-G race in Kvitfjell, Norway in 2007, when the unfortunate accident occurred. Bertrand had competed at the Turin Olympics the year before, however, coming in 24th in the downhill and super-G events.
As painful as the gate to the groin clearly as, Bertrand did not appear to suffer any damage that kept him from the sport. In fact, he continued competing in international downhill and super-G races until 2014.
According to a 2018 study, Alpine skiing is a notoriously dangerous sport with a reported injury rate of 36.7 per 100 World Cup athletes per season. Of course, it's the knees and not the coin purse that are the most common casualty of ski racing, which we saw clearly in U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's harrowing experiences at the 2026 Olympics. Vonn was competing with a torn ACL and ended up being helicoptered off of the mountain after an ugly crash that did additional damage to her legs, requiring multiple surgeries (though what caused the crash was reportedly unrelated to her ACL tear). Still, she says she has no regrets.
As Bertrand's return to the slopes shows, the risk of injury doesn't stop those who live for the thrill of victory, even when the agony of defeat hits them right in the rocks.