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 Caught on camera, the worker is initially talking to a drive-through customer when their attention turns toward the homeless man. 
 
 WARNING: Racial Slurs And Strong Language 
 
 “Hey Willie, come here — you want a sandwich? … I’m about to help you,” says the McDonald’s employee. 
 
 “Bless his —,” you hear someone say from inside the drive-through car. 
 
 Instead of handing him the promised burger, he throws water in the face of the obviously confused elderly man. 
 
 After throwing water in the man’s face — all the homeless man says is “why you do that?” as he walks away in the rain. 
 
 The humiliation of the man is further heard by the laughter from inside the car and the seemingly indifferent reaction of the employee. 
 
 The man who initially posted the video later posted another one on social media explaining that at the time of the incident he was “high as f***.” 
 
 The man who recorded the video is a Detroiter who calls himself Skeez, and he says he regrets the posting. 
 
 “They were actually arguing with each other and that’s what was funny to me, ” he explained to WWJ’s Zahra Huber. 
 
 He added he thought the employee was about to feed the homeless man when he offered the burger. “And then he did what he did,” he said. 
 
 The owner of the McDonalds franchise expressed dismay and said the incident would be addressed with the employee. 
 
 “I am very disturbed by the inappropriate behavior of this employee. This type of behavior is not tolerated in my organization,” said Wise Finley, McDonald’s franchisee, in a press release. “I expect my employees to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and this was unacceptable. I am taking appropriate action with respect to this individual. ” ||||| Illuminated golden arches mark the entrance to a McDonald's. (Photo: Luke Sharrett) 
 
 A Detroit McDonald's employee who tricked a homeless man into thinking he would get food through the drive-through and instead threw water at him has been fired amid outrage after a video of the incident went viral. 
 
 The owner of the McDonald's on Grand River near Schaefer on the city's west side confirmed in a statement today that the employee was terminated. 
 
 "I am very disturbed by the inappropriate behavior of this employee," said McDonald's franchisee Wise Finley. "This type of behavior is not tolerated in my organization. I expect my employees to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and this was unacceptable. This individual no longer works for my organization." 
 
 • Video: McDonald's worker tosses water on homeless man(Warning: Graphic language, racial slurs) 
 
 Tasha Gray, executive director of the Homeless Action Network of Detroit, shared in the outrage over the video. 
 
 "I think we forget sometimes that people experiencing homelessness are just like you and I," she said. "We have working families who just don't have enough means to make ends meet. I like to tell my staff that we're one missed paycheck away from homelessness." 
 
 In the video, shot by someone in a vehicle at the drive-up window, the worker calls over to an elderly man he calls Willie, saying he was going to give him a sandwich. At first, Willie refuses and curses at the worker, but after the employee held up a sandwich for Willie to see, Willie comes over. 
 
 Then the worker tosses a cup of water on Willie while the driver in the car recording the video laughs. 
 
 "Why'd you do that?" Willie asks. 
 
 The video upset Bishop Daryl Harris, pastor of Total Life Christian Ministries on the city's east side and a member of the city's Human Rights Commission. Harris drove over to the McDonald's this morning hoping to talk to Finley but was unable to speak with him. 
 
 "I was outraged — I couldn't believe it," Harris said. "To use the food that he was asking for to lure him over and assault him in that manner, it was just cruel." 
 
 Harris said he wanted to make sure that the McDonald's employee was fired, and was working with other pastors to try to locate Willie to see whether there was any way they could help him — even with something as little as a meal off the McDonald's dollar menu. 
 
 David Sampson, CEO of the homeless and addiction treatment center Mariners Inn, said the video made him sad at first and then angry. 
 
 "Those kinds of actions are unconscionable," Sampson said. "To me it comes from a place of ignorance, not really having compassion for other people's plight. I often tell people, 'There but for the grace of God go I.' " 
 
 It wasn't immediately clear whether Detroit police were looking into the matter today for possible assault charges. A police spokeswoman said this afternoon she was checking to see whether any complaint had been filed. 
 
 Contact Matt Helms: 313-222-1450 or mhelms@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter: @matthelms. 
 
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– Viral videos can entertain, surprise, and, in this case, get a McDonald's worker fired. A disturbing NSFW clip recorded by a customer at a Detroit Mickey D's shows an employee working the drive-thru window, luring a homeless man he calls Willie over by holding up a sandwich and saying, "I'm about to help you," then dousing him with a cup of water when Willie approaches and reaches for the food. "Why'd you do that?" a stunned Willie asks before walking away. The video, posted Friday, has more than 660,000 views and caught the attention of the restaurant's owner, who confirmed the employee has been canned, the Detroit Free Press reports. "I expect my employees to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and this was unacceptable," the franchise owner says in a statement. "This individual no longer works for my organization." Reuters notes the LiveLeak version of the video includes the caption "Videographer states that he did this as payback because the panhandler had earlier argued with a McDonald's customer." That cameraman—in the car where laughing can be heard off-camera—tells a WWJ reporter he's now sorry he put the video up. "They were … arguing with each other and that's what was funny to me," he says. Residents are outraged, with a local bishop telling the Free Press that the worker's actions were "cruel," while the CEO of a nearby homeless center calls it "unconscionable," adding, "To me, it comes from a place of ignorance, not really having compassion for other people's plight." The director of the Homeless Action Network of Detroit agrees. "I like to tell my staff that we're one missed paycheck away from homelessness," she tells the Free Press. Detroit police are searching for Willie to see if he wants to press assault charges, Reuters notes. (A McDonald's worker in Chicago, meanwhile, pulled off an extraordinary act of kindness.)