CHARLOTTE — A shithead in South Charlotte became one of the first people in the city to receive Taco Bell via drone on Thursday. The delivery, part of a new rollout by DoorDash and drone company Wing, lasted under an hour before ending in failure.
The man, who lives near the Arboretum, reportedly stood shirtless in a parking lot as the drone approached. He clapped once and said “Yo, that’s crazy” as the aircraft lowered a Crunchwrap Supreme and a Baja Blast on a tether.
He gained nothing from the experience, other than the brief thrill of watching a soft taco descend from the sky.
The program is part of a highly publicized partnership that allows select restaurants in South Charlotte to offer drone delivery to customers within a four-mile radius. Once food is loaded at the launchpad—a small metal box in the Arboretum parking lot—the drone takes off, climbs to 200 feet, flies at 65 miles per hour, and then descends to about 20 feet to dangle your dinner over some asphalt.
Despite everything, the man insisted the drone was “the future.” He had waited nearly 50 minutes for the order to dispatch. He lived in the right zone, picked from one of six participating restaurants, and refreshed the app so many times it logged him out twice. At one point, the delivery ETA disappeared and came back with a longer wait.
It would’ve been faster, cheaper, and less humiliating if a teenager in a dented Altima had just dropped the bag on the pavement and driven off.
“Bro, it came from the sky,” he said, after watching the drone drop his meal into an anthill.
Drone delivery is expected to expand citywide by the end of the year for some reason.
