Water Thrown In The Face Of Homeless Man By McDonald’s Employee - WTF!

What a scumbag...His ass needs to be slapped right back into the hole he crawled out of...

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works guys but I think there is a bit of history there. Quite obvious to me.

I am gonna make an assumption that he has been told multiple times to get off the property, possibly harassing customers for food (don't blame him I would). Judging by the homeless man's reaction he was weary to take the sandwich (cos there is history) and I will say judging by the people in the cars reaction he is a known homeless man in the local area.

I too think it is sick how he done it but I am gonna say this isn't the first time this homeless person has been sighted on private property.

Sorry to think outside the video peepz but I felt it was necessary.

a reply to: Realtruth

What saddens me more is that nobody kicked off about it.
I would have been shouting my rage filled objection to what I had just witnessed demanding a solution, while desperately holding myself back from slamming that pricks face into the counter.
I step in wherever I see injustice and cruelty, every time. I've had more than a couple of beatings over the years for doing so but the day I stop is the day I give up on any hopes of society and community.

There may be many folk who think I'm an outspoken annoyance here on ATS, I'll wear that cap, but I'm exactly the same in real life as well.
I would have kicked right of if I'd seen that, and whenever I watch similar youtubes it saddens me that hardly anyone ever steps in these days. Is it a scared society, uncaring, or a bit of both?

I wonder what the home office of McDs has to say....

but what do you expect from a company that bans people from BUYING food for the homeless.



www.nationofchange.org...

a reply to: grainofsand

The reason most people don't step in these days is they don't know the situation. Taking a side when you have no knowledge whatsoever as to the cause, the past or behaviour of the people you are "protecting" can make things alot worse. I have taken the side of the wrong person when I felt I was doing a social justice and made the situation alot worse.

Fair play for sticking up for what you think is right but I learnt from an early age not to have an opinion on perceived social injustices without prior knowledge.

Sorry again if this is the wrong type of thread to be posting these objective thoughts.

a reply to: olaru12

I was gonna ask McDonald's policy on this but feared I would get set upon. This sheds a much better light on the situation. Thankyou for the information.

a reply to: rossacus

Fair one, I understand where you are coming from, but if I saw an employee of any multinational teasing in a (presumably hungry) homeless person with the fake offer of food, only to throw a cup of water in his face then I would kick right off and step in.

I don't care what that homeless man may or may not have done prior to the incident, it was wrong, in so many ways.
...as I said, I've had a good few beatings in the last couple of decades defending my fellow man, I don't think I'll ever learn my lesson, and nor do I want to.

I do see your perspective though, but if we all walked on bye I wonder who is then left to help the genuine victims in life?

originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: rossacus

Fair one, I understand where you are coming from, but if I saw an employee of any multinational teasing in a (presumably hungry) homeless person with the fake offer of food, only to throw a cup of water in his face then I would kick right off and step in.

I don't care what that homeless man may or may not have done prior to the incident, it was wrong, in so many ways.
...as I said, I've had a good few beatings in the last couple of decades defending my fellow man, I don't think I'll ever learn my lesson, and nor do I want to.

I do see your perspective though, but if we all walked on bye I wonder who is then left to help the genuine victims in life?

You would've been in the right to 'step in', g.o.s.
I'd have been there right by your side.

I wish someone had.

a reply to: grainofsand

Well if i was there with you i would have your back....

The press should track down that drive-thru guy...and ask him WTF he was thinking.

a reply to: IAMTAT

And your presence would be welcomed.
I challenged a large group of 'youths' calling an Islamic woman with her child 'terrorist' and other horrible things about a year ago, thought I was gonna get another beating when it started turning a bit nasty, but 4 or 5 other blokes then backed me up and they dispersed.

It only takes one of us to make that stand sometimes, and if the decent folk in society all back each other up then we have hope. The day I stop is the day I've given up on any thoughts of community and love for fellow man. Ain't gonna happen, I'll be found dead before then.

originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: rossacus
I don't care what that homeless man may or may not have done prior to the incident, it was wrong, in so many ways.

exactly,if anyone were in same position and starving wouldn,t you hang out at a food place just hoping someone had some sympathy and offered you some food? it may be being annoying to some people but at that moment he wasn,t annoying anyone,he was called over to be publicly humiliated.

why?for the mcdonalds employee and the guys in the car entertainment? sad on so many levels.

a reply to: grainofsand

Very true. Cos of the nature of the attack and the victims predicament I would be assisting you by holding him down.

a reply to: sparky31
I agree apart from we don't know he wasn't annoying someone. For the employee to notice him mid service he must have been doing something, whether it be not leaving the property when asked to earlier (which I feel it was based on the employees frustration) or asking for food in the drive thru queue/waiting at entrance begging new customers.

I have been very frustrated in the past at certain customers and if I was filmed in my bad moments I too would be deemed scum, but that isn't taking into account the months of pleading, negotiating and arguments to enforce company policy and provide a better, safer environment for my customer. No one wants someone asking for handouts, we all get frustrated at homeless people plotting up besides cashpoints knowing fine well you have to lie to them to not part with your money.

I agree with everything you said but I feel there was some form of annoying behaviour, whether it be personal or professional.

Sorry if it seems I'm siding with the employee, which I'm obviously not, I just saw many death the the employee rants and felt a cup of step back and think was in order.

Peace.

originally posted by: rossacus
a reply to: sparky31
I agree apart from we don't know he wasn't annoying someone. For the employee to notice him mid service he must have been doing something, whether it be not leaving the property when asked to earlier (which I feel it was based on the employees frustration) or asking for food in the drive thru queue/waiting at entrance begging new customers.

I have been very frustrated in the past at certain customers and if I was filmed in my bad moments I too would be deemed scum, but that isn't taking into account the months of pleading, negotiating and arguments to enforce company policy and provide a better, safer environment for my customer. No one wants someone asking for handouts, we all get frustrated at homeless people plotting up besides cashpoints knowing fine well you have to lie to them to not part with your money.

I agree with everything you said but I feel there was some form of annoying behaviour, whether it be personal or professional.

Sorry if it seems I'm siding with the employee, which I'm obviously not, I just saw many death the the employee rants and felt a cup of step back and think was in order.

Peace.

no i get what your saying but i think we all agree that what the homeless guy was subjected to was degrading and wasn,t needed but going on just video evidence alone it looks to me that the degrading was just for entertainment alone and not a frustration at him annoying customers.

just my opinion.

a reply to: rossacus

Just the support of vocal agreement by decent folk in our society is all it takes.
When at Uni I worked a temp job in Plymouth (UK) land-fill rubbish site, horrible conditions and ruled by a bully manager who would use physical violence to run the place. Beatings and the like.

I was absolutely shocked that 20 or so decent men were so downtrodden that they worked in fear like serfs, so I of course crossed swords with the bully at some point. It was in the grub-hut and he was picking on the learning disability homeless agency bloke who was hanging on to that job living in a tent, while all the other blokes looked down.
I lost it, I stood up and called him out, shouting that I will not live in fear like these men and nor should they. One looked up and agreed, then more, and the guy backed down publicly.

...I agree that perhaps I will learn my lesson one day, but that is also likely to be the day I die.
I will never stop trying to fight injustice or fear, and every time other good people back me up I smile with hope for my society.

a reply to: Realtruth

What a worthless piece of dung! If I was in that area, I'd demand they fire the creep. There is no excuse for that sort of behavior. I worked at a McDonald's many, many years back, and we had a homeless guy who would come in now and then, when he got a dollar, to eat. Some didn't like waiting on him, but I didn't mind a bit. He was customer, like any other.

People who think position is everything deserve to have theirs changed. They might learn something that way. No one is better because they have more money, or a certain sort of job.

BOYCOTT MCDONALDS !!

a reply to: Realtruth

WORLDSTAR!

yea really dumb

That's truly Fu#&ed up what the McDs employee done, even if he's been asking customers for something to eat (he's homeless) its kind of expected in some ways, the homeless guy didn't need to me more humiliated and escorted off the property not water in his face, what's wrong humanity these days???