Just after midnight in Evansville, a blue-haired delivery worker was caught on a doorbell camera allegedly blasting an Arby’s order with what the victims believe was pepper spray. Yes—pepper spray. On a roast beef sandwich.
NEW: DoorDash driver accused of spraying pepper spray on Arby’s food after dropping it off at a home in Indiana.
Mark Cardin says his wife started choking and gasping after she started eating the food.
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Mark and Mandy Cardin had no idea the midnight snack dropped at their doorstep had been turned into a chemical weapon. The driver snapped the usual “delivery confirmation” photo, then—caught in crystal-clear video—pulled something from her pocket and spritzed the food bag like she was misting a houseplant. She tucked the spray back into her jacket and strolled off as if she hadn’t just sabotaged someone’s dinner.
Minutes later, inside the home, things took a terrifying turn.
“I noticed my wife had starting eating and she started choking and gasping, and after she had a couple bites of her food she actually threw up,” Mark told WFIE.
Panicked, Mark tore into the bag to see what was wrong.
“I had a look at the bag and seen that there was some kind of spray or something,” he said. “The bag had been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera and seen that the lady who dropped the food off had actually tampered with it on purpose for some reason.”
The couple had never met the woman. They’d even left a tip—so much for gratitude in the gig-economy era.
Mark posted the video and photos to Facebook, asking the community to help identify the driver. When he tried messaging her through the app, she had already blocked him. Guilty conscience, maybe?
DoorDash confirmed the worker has now been permanently booted from the platform. “We have zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior. The Dasher in question has been permanently removed from the platform, and our team is standing by to support law enforcement with any investigation,” a spokesperson told The Post.
But booting her isn’t enough for the Cardins—or for law enforcement. The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has launched a full investigation and is seeking charges. According to WFIE, she could face a Level 6 felony for consumer product tampering—upgraded to a Level 5 felony if the tainted food caused harm.
Mark says the whole ordeal could’ve ended much worse.
“It’s horrific,” he said. “We assume it’s pepper spray, that’s more than likely what it is, but now in this day and age it could’ve been anything. It could’ve been rat poison, it could’ve been fentanyl. I mean, my wife could’ve been dead.”
And in a moment that sums up the state of society, Mark didn’t hold back:
“We live in a terrible world right now. Horrific. People are mean for no reason. There was no reason to do what she done.”
His warning to Americans who still rely on food delivery apps?
“I would say to anybody, if you order food on any kind of delivery service, make sure you have a doorbell.”
“This is making me second guess ever ordering food from anywhere ever again.”
