Thank you Darleen for sending me this quite astonishing news story for blog discussion. This one is certain to produce a lot of comment, and quite rightly so.
A McDonald's customer posted a video to social media showing him and a homeless man being told to leave a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant after he says he bought him food.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5452039/Homeless-man-customer-told-leave-McDonalds.html?ito=email_share_article-masthead
Wow.
Comments welcomed below as always.
Mark
I really cannot believe what I’ve read and watched today, since when did buying a meal for a homeless person become a crime??? I am disgusted with the behaviour not only by the McDonald employees, the police officer on the scene who discriminated against the person but with the general public who felt threated by a person who has fallen on hard times eating food that had been bought for him, heaven forbid that anything so terrible should befall them. I shall be boycotting McDonalds from now on at all costs. I really worries and confuses me about the way the world and people living on it are conducting themselves in this day and age.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%. I don’t think this is the last time we will hear about this story.
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Absolutely appalling behaviour. What harm was this person doing other than eating a meal. Half the time I've been in MacDonalds and there are youths terrorising customers with their carry on and they are never removed. I heard another story like this today where someone paid for rooms at a premier inn for homeless people and when the people arrived they were refused to stay.... again absolutely shocking behaviour from these companies.
ReplyDeleteAnd here is that story. I’m appalled, again: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/premier-inn-homeless-people-turned-away-customer-paying-westonsupermare-a8240171.html?amp
ReplyDeleteI just Can't!!. I'm so angry right now at reading that. All I'm going to say is that karma has its ways.
ReplyDeleteI won't be checking into a Premier Inn ever again, that's for sure.
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