--- title: Hungry Child Calls 911 To Order A McDonald’s Happy Meal description: The kindergartner ordered “One Mc-Happy Meal” from the confused 911 dispatcher and then hung up the phone. canonical: https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-07T16:48:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:02.226Z og:title: Hungry Child Calls 911 To Order A McDonald’s Happy Meal og:description: The kindergartner ordered “One Mc-Happy Meal” from the confused 911 dispatcher og:url: https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cba0865f23c0bd/698a057e16d884764ec3740d/burgerbox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2052 og:image:height: 1154 og:image:alt: Blank black, craft and white burger box mockup set, isolated og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hungry Child Calls 911 To Order A McDonald’s Happy Meal twitter:description: The kindergartner ordered “One Mc-Happy Meal” from the confused 911 dispatcher twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cba0865f23c0bd/698a057e16d884764ec3740d/burgerbox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Patience-Free Child Calls 911 to Order a McDonald’s Happy Meal and Promptly Hangs Up > Sponsored content. 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Clear carton boxed for take away delivery template.Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 7, 2019 4:48 PM UTC Sometimes you get hungry. Sometimes you get hangry. And sometimes you get such an urgent hankering for food it feels like an emergency. That was apparently the case for a young boy who [called 911](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1903486,00.html) and asked for a McDonald’s Happy Meal. A[ 911 dispatcher](https://time.com/3910954/cat-911-call/) in Mesa, Arizona was monitoring the phone lines when he got an unusual call. Five-year old Charlie Skabelund was on the line and wanted to know if he was speaking with McDonald’s. The operator, Anthony Bonilla, was understandably confused by the question. “Do you have an emergency?” he asked and after a brief pause, the kindergarten informed him that he would like “One Mc-Happy Meal” and then promptly hung up the phone. The City of Mesa Police Department released audio of the call to [_The Arizona Republic_](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2019/10/30/mesa-5-year-old-calls-911-order-happy-meal-police-officer-delivers/4100643002/), and it was hilarious—but it wasn’t the end of the story. When the dispatcher called back to ensure that there wasn’t a real emergency, the boy’s father, Randy Skabelund, realized what had happened. He told the dispatcher that his son must have gotten a hold of his cell phone and said that the child was well fed, [according to _The Arizona Republic_](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2019/10/30/mesa-5-year-old-calls-911-order-happy-meal-police-officer-delivers/4100643002/). The dispatcher sent an officer to do a welfare check on the young boy, and police officer Randolph “Scott” Valdez arrived at Skabelund’s home with a Happy Meal in his hand. He wasn’t just delivering food, though, but, according to a post on the [City of Mesa’s Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/MesaAzPD/photos/a.197458856934406/2946832598663671/?type=3&theater), the officer used the opportunity to talk with the youngster about when it’s appropriate to [call 911](https://time.com/4363426/florida-man-drunk-dial-911-vodka/), a lesson that [some adults](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/14/man-calls-911-twice-because-his-neighbors-are-mean-and-wouldnt-drink-with-him/) need to learn, as well. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/"},"headline":"Patience-Free Child Calls 911 to Order a McDonald’s Happy Meal and Promptly Hangs Up","datePublished":"2019-11-07T16:48:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:02.226Z","description":"The kindergartner ordered “One Mc-Happy Meal” from the confused 911 dispatcher and then hung up the phone.","url":"https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Mcdonald's","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cba0865f23c0bd/698a057e16d884764ec3740d/burgerbox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55cba0865f23c0bd/698a057e16d884764ec3740d/burgerbox.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Blank black, craft and white burger box mockup set, isolated","caption":"Burger box","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5721147/911-mcdonalds/","name":"Patience-Free Child Calls 911 to Order a McDonald’s Happy Meal and Promptly Hangs Up"}}]}] ```