Kicker - Popsicle bonanza

NICK EICHER, HOST: After getting ahold of his mother’s Amazon account, a 4-year-old in New York City managed to purchase a healthy supply of his favorite food.

Well, okay, maybe “healthy” isn’t the right word.

He bought 51 cases of frozen SpongeBob Popsicles.

The order cost little Noah Bryant’s mother Jennifer more than $2,500 dollars.

And that was a little more than the social work student and mother of three had budgeted for popsicles. But Amazon refused to accept a return of the nearly 1,000 SpongeBob Pops.

But the story has a happy ending. One of Bryant’s fellow students created a GoFundMe fundraiser to help the family. By May 7, internet users had contributed nearly $13,000.

Bryant says she’ll set aside the excess money for Noah’s education.

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