The Boy Who Was Missing For 6 Years Has Been Found Alive

The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager ambling along in the rain in the deepest rustic France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm.

Delivery driver Fabien Accidini recounted that he thought to himself, that’s strange, it’s 3 am, it’s raining, and he’s all by himself on the road between two villages.

From there, the story gets stranger still. The youngster, it turned out, was Alex Batty, a 17-year-old from Britain who had been missing since 2017.

British and French authorities confirmed on Friday that the teenager discovered by Accidini this week was the boy who disappeared at age 11 when his mother and grandfather took him on what was meant to be a brief family holiday in Spain.

Instead, it turned out to be a six-year odyssey through Morocco, Spain and southwest France, living a nomadic, off-the-grid life.

Batty told French investigators that they moved from house to house, carrying their own solar panels, growing their own food and living with other families in what the teenager described as a spiritual community, French authorities said.

However, Batty unexpectedly popped up again this Wednesday, on the remote road where Accidini found him after he and his mother parted ways.

A French prosecutor said on Friday that the teenager decided to go his own way after his mother told him that she wanted them to move yet again, to Finland.

The prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, said at a news conference in the southwestern French city of Toulouse that when his mother indicated that she intended to leave for Finland with him, the young man understood that this journey had to stop.

He said Batty walked for four nights, resting during the days, and fed himself with different things that he found in fields or gardens before Accidini picked him up and delivered him to the safekeeping of French police.

The mother, Melanie Batty, has probably left for Finland, Leroy said. And the grandfather, David Batty, is thought to have passed away about six months ago, he said. Both are sought by British police in connection with his disappearance.

Accidini said he spotted the teen alone in the rain with a flashlight, a backpack and his skateboard. The deliveryman stopped and asked if he was okay, what he was doing there, if he needed assistance and if he wanted him to drop him in a village.

It’s delightful that he’s been found, and it’s so lovely to read about a feel-good story for a change. I hope that this young man is reunited with his family and has no long-term trauma from his ordeal.

And why did his oddball mother see fit to subject her son to this nonsense?

This is wonderful news and really uplifting and it just goes to show one should never give up hope.

Thank heavens to the stranger who was a good person and took the teenager to the police station. Could have easily ended up much worse.

Perhaps one day this story might be made into a film, you just never know, so good luck with the future.

We have no idea what this teenager’s life was like for all those years, but I do hope that he finds happiness from now on because this story is amazing and it also gives hope to other families of missing children.

It takes a lot of guts and this teenager must have been confused as to what to do next or who he could trust. He went to huge and dangerous measures to leave, that takes guts.

An Aussie Pub’s Ban On Cash Backfires

A new brewpub which opened this week in Western Australia generated a stir on social media after it said it wouldn’t take cash and only accepted card payments.

Froth Craft Brewery, across the road from North Beach in Perth’s north, celebrated its opening in preparation for the weekend crowds, with the brewery’s two other pubs in Exmouth and Bunbury already highly popular.

However, potential customers on the Hey Perth Facebook group took issue with the refusal to take cash saying they would avoid the venue, and that they would not be supporting them if they wouldn’t accept cash.

Another person agreed that if venues were not accepting legal tender they should be boycotted.

A third added that cash was the key and they wouldn’t see them in there and they only live a few minutes away.

Another said, no cash, been to two venues like this and when the bank’s system keeps stuffing up so you can’t buy anything they’ll be whining business is slow.

Another agreed that they would be laughing at them when the next online banking or telecommunications outage happened.

A fifth person said, no cash, no business from them.

However, some claimed there was a good reason the business had opted to not have cash on the premises.

One commenter argued, that no cash is more security for businesses and more security for patrons.

Another agreed that less than 15 per cent is paid by cash and that they didn’t think the small number of people refusing to go there because of that would affect their sales.

Australia is shifting to a mostly cashless society with digital payments soaring and banks streamlining their operations by ditching cash, but some claim the switch leaves businesses and customers vulnerable to hacks or computer outages.

Digital payments also incur a fee whenever they’re made, chipping away and both businesses’ and customers’ savings, in contrast to cash which keeps its set value.

Speaking at a conference this week, RBA governor Michele Bullock said the share of consumer payments made using cash declined from 70 per cent in 2007 to 13 per cent last year.

Although the federal government and the central bank are committed to keeping cash as a failsafe payment option in Australia, RBA governor Michele Bullock says its declining popularity is posing a challenge.

The number of ATMs and bank branches where people can get money out has already been declining, though Ms Bullock said the distances people needed to travel to access cash have been little changed in recent years.

Go cashless and go broke. People like to have a preference in how they pay. Say goodbye to markets, garage sales, Facebook marketplace et cetera. It will be a no-cash future.

Almost daily I read or hear about some group undoubtedly in the minority being given every privilege and advantage.

A couple of people whine about a dog yapping and that it’s off its lead and then we find the parks have closed. Then you have people saying they can’t do well in their preferred sport because they want to be a boy or a girl, and then suddenly they’re all pariahs if they say it’s unfair. Now cash payers and users are the minority and they’re being discriminated against and told to tow the line.

Governments want a cashless society because it’s far easier to control the masses if there’s no cash and in the end, they will have everyone by the throat. Just wait and see!

A Teacher Who Told Ten-Year-Olds That Father Christmas Didn’t Exist Is Headed For The Naughty List

A school has been forced to apologise to parents after a teacher falsely told her class that Father Christmas wasn’t real.

The stand-in teacher at Hill View Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset made the blunder while her class of 10 and 11-year-olds were making Christmas cards on Wednesday.

The festive faux pas is said to have generated quite the scene as the Year Six pupils left the school questioning their parents to see if what she’d said was correct.

The school later that day emailed a letter to parents apologising profusely for the upset caused to the children by the Santa slur.

They said the teacher in question would not be returning to the school and they were deeply disappointed by her actions, but parents are still baffled why the primary school teacher would want to ruin Christmas.

The letter said that they were aware that whilst making Christmas cards, a supply teacher told the Year 6 children that Father Christmas was not real.

The school said that they apologise for any upset that it may have caused to the parents and their children and that they would be contacting the supply agency about the matter.

They asked everyone to accept their sincere apologies and thanked them for their understanding in the matter.

A follow-up letter that was sent said that just to update everyone regarding the incident with the supply teacher, the supply agency was spoken to and that particular supply teacher would not be coming back to Hill View and that as a school they sincerely apologise for this and the supply agency also sends their apologies.

It said, thank you for your comments and emails which have been taken on board and that they could assure everyone that the supply teacher would not be returning to Hill View.

One parent, who didn’t want to be named, said that Christmas was a stressful time of the year, and the last thing they needed was the school ruining it by taking away the magic. They said, what teacher in their right mind would say that to young children? And how did it even come up? The mind boggles.

A spokesperson for Hill View Primary School said that they wrote to parents to let them know what had happened in a class that was being led by a supply teacher.

That was no blunder, it was just a spiteful unnecessary comment. Children have dreams the same as adults do, so why spoil it for them?

It seems that teachers are toxic towards children now. Perhaps parents should be homeschooling their children so that they’re not brainwashed by teachers with an agenda.

Christmas is a magical time of the year. I didn’t tell my children that there was a Father Christmas, I explained that he was a guy dressed in an ensemble, but that it was still an extremely important time of the year and why it was a very important time of the year. My children were delighted that I had bought the gifts and taken the time to wrap them with love, but everybody is different and believes in different things. However, we teach our children not to lie, yet we lie to them all the time by telling them that there’s a Father Christmas that comes down the chimney and the Tooth Fairy that leaves them money for a tooth, then they find out years later that they were lied to, when we told them that it’s bad to lie, but each to their own.

As Chris Cuomo Interviews A TikToker With Tourette’s, She Repeatedly Tells Him To ‘F**k Off’ And Adopts A British Accent

Chris Cuomo laughs as he interviewed a TikTok influencer with Tourette’s syndrome, who repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and mimicked a British accent.

Baylen Dupree, a freshman at West Virginia University, shared her journey dealing with Tourette’s, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by quick and repetitious tics and sounds.

During the interview aired on NewsNation Tuesday night, she repeatedly told Chris Cuomo to ‘f**k off’ and gestured by extending her middle finger to the 53-year-old news anchor.

Minutes into the conversation, Chris Cuomo smiled and laughed when Dupree, in a humous British accent, said, ‘Go f* yourself, Chris a bunny, old biscuit fat a**’.

After the tics, she resumed the conversation, saying that she also receives hate from people who have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident.

Dupree, a freshman in college and a social media influencer with 9 million followers on TikTok went viral after she documented her life with Tourette’s Syndrome.

Tourette’s Syndrome, which usually starts in childhood and is characterised by involuntary motor and verbal tics, is believed to affect about 1.4 million Americans, including Billie Eilish.

Vocal tics include humming or shouting out specific words, which Dupree had displayed throughout her interview with Chris Cuomo.

She said that she wants people to learn that Tourette’s is a neurological involuntary motor and vocal disorder. She said that there are a lot of things that people don’t understand and that people think that cursing is typical with everyone who has Tourette’s syndrome, but it’s only ten per cent of people with Tourette’s.

She said she gets thousands of DMs from parents, from teachers, from girls that have been diagnosed with Tourette’s and they’ve had to be kicked out of school for attention seeking because they rip up their homework or do things like that.

She added that she also gets very evil people who will come and say, and then you can see she has trouble finishing the sentence during the interview.

Chris Cuomo endeavours to hold back his laugh by concealing his face with both hands and nodding his head. The interview then continues after Dupree’s swearing tics.

She said that people have told her that her parents deserve to die in a car accident and that she’s had the police at her house because people gave out her location and said they’re gonna come and torch her house.

Tourette’s syndrome is not funny, but how can you not laugh, this girl is hilarious and those who do laugh, well many are laughing with her and not at her, but many are laughing at her and that is despicable.

It was a brilliant interview and he wasn’t laughing at her he was just having a human response. What was alarming was that they bleeped out what the girl was saying and they shouldn’t have because the interview was about her Tourette’s.

Why on earth did they do that? Was it to protect the fragile sensibilities of the viewers because it was pre-watershed?

In my opinion, it was terrible so-called journalism. The news needs to be reported accurately, especially when they’re interviewing people who live in a nation where most people believe almost everything they see on TV.

Now because they bleeped the swear words out, people will believe that Tourette’s isn’t a real thing and anyhow, this lady has had to live with her condition all her life, so why shouldn’t the public? And censoring what she was saying only protects the idiots out there who believe very stupidly that Tourette’s isn’t real.

Blackpool Nurse And Healthcare Worker Who Illegally Drugged Patients For ‘Own Amusement’ 

A nurse and assistant practitioner have been jailed for a total of ten years and two months after drugging patients for their amusement.

Senior nurse Catherine Hudson, 44, and healthcare worker Charlotte Wilmot, 48, were earlier found guilty of the ill-treatment of stroke patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Catherine Hudson illegally sedated two patients and plotted with junior coworker Charlotte Wilmot to sedate a third.

The dangerous and cruel pair are said to have targeted patients if they disliked them or their relatives, drugging them for an easy life.

Messages between the pair, which were discovered after an inquiry was launched into alleged wrongdoing, revealed how Hudson wrote to her friend that she was going to kill bed 5 and planned to give one patient the best sleep she ever had.

In another message to a coworker, Hudson wrote that she was having a lovely day that she’s had in Blue Bay today. Sedated all the troublemakers.

Hudson, who drugged patients to exert contemptuous power, was sentenced to seven years and two months at Preston Crown Court.

Her colleague Wilmot, who a judge said was involved with two patients but was not the lead offender, received a three-year sentence.

Hudson gave one victim, 76-year-old Aileen Scott, left paralysed by a stroke, an unprescribed sedative to keep her quiet and compliant.

Her son Brian described the two nursing staff as pure evil and said that their treatment was disturbing and that his mother’s treatment would haunt her family for the rest of their lives.

Neither staff member has ever been accused of causing any deaths, although patients on their ward were profoundly sick.

The judge spoke of the distress the relatives of victims would feel and said the case would result in a loss of public confidence in healthcare workers.

In his sentencing remarks, he said they were in a position of trust and responsibility. They offended against vulnerable people in their care over a significant period.

He said there was in each case a risk of harm and that we’ve heard of the risk of sedatives to stroke patients.

He added that the relatives of all those patients would always be distressed at the betrayal of trust and that there would be a loss of public confidence in the NHS.

Police were alerted by hospital chiefs in November 2018 after a student nurse on a work placement said Hudson suggested administering unprescribed zopiclone, a sleeping tablet, to elderly patient Aileen Scott.

Well done to that student nurse because it’s not easy to speak out against people in authority at the beginning of your career.

Some people are so wicked. Imagine what their poor families have been put through, when no doubt these patients were trying to tell them what was happening to them, and no doubt these wicked people were denying their actions.

This appears to be happening a lot these days and patients need to be watching their medications and what’s being given to them, but not all patients are well enough to do that, so old people just get sedated to shut them up and keep them quiet, it’s appalling.

The culture within the NHS needs to change drastically, and I suspect that this has happened to a lot more people than they let on. What is concerning is the possible culture of abuse.

I’ve watched nurses in hospitals and you can see the ones who have no respect for their patients and are smug bullies. Once upon a time, nurses joined the profession to become a nurse because they were dedicated, now they enter for power.

After Stranger’s Ignorant Words, Mother Opens Chip Shop

Slur directed at autistic son knocked Gillian sideways, but she reacted in the best way she could.

A mum has decided to open an accessible chip shop so her autistic son has a job for life.

Gillian Jervis got the idea to open Oliver’s Chippy in Warton, Lancs, near Blackpool after a stranger labelled her son Oliver a ‘burden on the state’ in an online chat forum.

The comment stopped the mum of four in her tracks. She said that she sometimes thinks she dreamt the comment and that she made it up because why would you say something like that?

Determined not to let the troll win, the mum decided to make her own future for her son by setting up a business in his name.

Oliver’s Chippy in Warton, on Lancashire’s Fylde coast, opened in 2021 with the now 14-year-old’s future in mind.

Gillian added that employment-wise, he wouldn’t be able to just leave school and go straight into a job like a neurotypical child.

Oliver’s autism can cause some communication problems, so Oliver’s Chippy is designed with neurodivergent and learning-disabled people in mind, with visual screens on the menus and tills as opposed to words and phrases.

She said that if you’ve got dyspraxia, selective mute, people who have trauma, where if they start speaking something might trigger them.

She added that you’ve got people with a stutter, so she’s looked at it this way. Before people start to speak, they look at the pictures, don’t they? It’s better to see a picture of what you want, it gives you the confidence to come into the shop and order what they want without saying it.

Gillian had worked in chip shops in the 90s before becoming a stay-at-home mum to raise her four children.

Since opening, Oliver’s Chippy has given out free meals to 1,300 children and supported other families across the Fylde Coast with giveaways including an iPad and air fryer.

She said, explaining the motivation, that we’ve had the cost of living crisis, fuel shortages, the after-effects of COVID and people not working as they were, with people losing their jobs due to COVID as well.

The shop first began giving away free meals during the Easter holidays when it opened at its own cost, before getting support from Bryning with Warton Parish Council and a GoFundMe appeal to provide more help to the community.

I do hope that this business is a success and here’s hoping the very best to this amazing lady and her son’s future. This mother had such a good idea and she’s a great mum and a great human being.

This was such a positive idea and one son that will be happy, and just future-proof to ensure that nobody takes advantage of him, and well done to his mother who should be applauded. Numerous families do their best to help their additional support needs children to reach their potential and protect their futures, who will read this with joy.

This chippy not only helps her son but also the customers as well, and as a parent with an additional needs son, you’re a great inspiration to others.

I wish you all the luck in the world and much success because a mother’s love is priceless.

I can never understand people and their terrible comments about people with any form of disability, it’s disgraceful.

Wonder Woman is real. She’s an awesome lady and an awesome mum.

Well done to this amazing mother and whoever made the vulgar comment should bow their head in shame. Nobody knows another person’s circumstances and they should beware because you never know what life might throw at you, and they might find themselves in a similar position and end up being on the end of their offensive comments.

How Will Father Christmas Find Me, A Crying Child Asks?

An eight-year-old boy fears Santa Claus won’t be able to find him this Christmas after he was made homeless.

Marcel and his mum Sarah were moved into a hotel room by Cardiff City Council after they were ousted from their rented flat.

The widowed mother remembered her son asking: ‘How is Santa going to find me if we’re homeless?’

She told the BBC that no child should ever say that and that her son shouldn’t have to worry about Christmas or whether he’s going to get presents or not.

Marcel, who has learning difficulties, doesn’t understand why he no longer has his own room.

In a clip, Sarah shows the hotel room that they will call home for the time being.

She said that she was grateful for the room, but obviously, she didn’t want to remain there for a long time.

Around the double bed shared by the mother and son, their belongings can be seen stacked up on shelves and spread across the small accommodation.

Sarah explained Marcel isn’t able to sleep that much as he wakes up scared many nights due to the noise in the hotel.

Sarah told the BBC that he wakes up saying that he doesn’t like the dark and screaming.

She said that without routine, he just goes haywire and that it’s just meltdown after meltdown and then he kicks off and gets angry.

Sarah and Marcel are waiting for the council to find them somewhere permanent to live after they were evicted when their landlord sold up.

Marcel said that it gets a little bit lonely with no visitors and that pets are not allowed.

The Welsh government declared a ‘health crisis’ due to the number of people living in temporary accommodation.

Despite having a good pool of temporary housing for 1,700 families, Cardiff council claimed it was facing exceptional demand, forcing it to shelter 202 more households in five hotels across the city.

It said it was prioritising moves for those in hotels wherever possible, the BBC reported.

Marcel is unfortunately not alone, as a record total of nearly 4,000 children will be homeless in Ireland this Christmas.

Many are babies who will spend their first Christmas in life without a place they can call home.

Christmas should be a time of untroubled enjoyment and creating unforgettable memories that will last a lifetime, but sadly, homeless children will be stuck in emergency accommodation with no proper place to put up a tree, play or even have family and friends over to visit.

However, it is the landlord’s right to sell their property if they wish to do so, as long as they give that person notice. We shouldn’t be condemning them, but our Government for selling off all the housing stock.

I suppose at least they have a hotel room, it could have been a lot worse, they could have been sleeping on the streets this Christmas because numerous families with their children will be sleeping on the streets this Christmas and it’s appalling because our Government are doing nothing about it, and I’m sure Rishi Sunak isn’t losing a nights sleep over it!

Boat people are being housed rather more quickly than someone who has lived in the United Kingdom all their life. People on the waiting list can wait at least 10 years for a property. Our Government’s priorities are all messed up, and I’m sure they’re determined to destroy this country altogether and they’re almost there.

Japan’s Second-Oldest Woman Dies At 116

The world’s second oldest woman has passed away at the age of 116 at a nursing home in Japan.

Local broadcaster MBS reported that Tatsumi was born on 25 April 1907, and raised three children with her husband Ryutaro, a farmer, in Osaka.

An official in Osaka’s Kashiwara city said, as tributes to the supercentenarian poured in that Tatsumi passed away aged 116 at a care facility in Osaka.

Tatsumi’s elder son, Kanji, 76, told local media that he thought she did great to get to this age.

Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura offered his condolences, recalling a party he attended to honour Tatsumi’s longevity in September.

Hirofumi Yoshimura said he still remembered how healthy Ms Fusa Tatsumi was, and that he sincerely prayed for her soul.

In footage aired by local media outlets, she was seen in a wheelchair, mainly sleeping, at her 116th birthday celebration in April.

Tatsumi was born on 25 April 1907 in Yao City, Osaka Prefecture, as the fifth of six siblings.

After graduating from school, she married her husband Ryutaro, a farmer who grew peaches and grapes, at the age of 32.

Two years later, she gave birth to her eldest daughter in 1941 and then her eldest son in 1947. Her husband later passed away at the age of 55.

Tatsumi worked hard on the family farm for more than 20 years and would carry baskets of harvested fruit on her back up and down the steep incline of the orchard.

Her family said this had helped train Tatsumi’s body, which may have been a factor in her longevity.

The mother of two was passionate about growing chrysanthemum flowers and flower arranging as a hobby, but while gardening in her 70s, she fell and broke her femur, the only serious injury she sustained in her life.

Tatsumi was healthy enough to live in her family home until she was 106. She would eat three meals a day and was careful to have a nutritious diet consisting of vegetables, fish and a small amount of meat.

Her care home said she would consume one litre of water a day and would keep a plastic bottle and cup within reach of her bed. They added that Tatsumi, at the age of 110, would do her make-up and frequently talk to staff.

Tatsumi became Japan’s oldest person in the country after the death of a 119-year-old woman, Kane Tanaka, in April 2022.

It’s awesome living to such a ripe old age, however, it must have been extremely heartbreaking for her to have seen friends and family pass away before she did.

This lady was doing something that most of us don’t and that’s eating a well-balanced diet, plenty of fresh air, getting exercise and keeping hydrated. Something that we’ve known for an extremely long time, but don’t take any notice of, and I bet this lady saw some changes in her lifetime and shifts in history to last her a lifetime.

Just imagine what this woman must have witnessed during her long life. The first car, planes and the first man to walk on the Moon, and oh yes, the atomic bomb!

You hear it all the time, eat more fruits and vegetables. Get away from processed foods, and fast foods. Improve your health and you will have a better chance of longevity. Look better, feel better, more energy. Bless her, she did look good at 116 and she’s an inspiration to us all!

I’m not sure if the world was a better place when this lady entered it or when she left it, but I do hope that before I die the world is a better place than it is right now. She watched 126 years of continuous change.

Man Without Hands And Legs Left Without Care

A man born without hands or legs has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.

DJ Calvert told BBC News Northern Ireland that he’s been let down and that he’s not the only one.

It was proof that Northern Ireland’s health and social care system had crashed, said the 49-year-old.

His care is provided by an independent firm on behalf of the Northern Health Trust. The trust said it was committed to providing an alternative package.

It added that it understood the worry it was causing, and would seek an alternative provider that would support him to continue living independently in his own home.

The care provider said it was increasingly stretched and that more funding was needed for the sector.

Although he lives alone, Mr Calvert, from Portstewart in Country Londonderry, depends on a daily visit from a care worker to assist him with basic hygiene and personal supervision.

For most of his life that support was provided by his mother but since March this year, she has no longer been able to do what she once did.

A seven-day-a-week care package was then put in place after only one company agreed to provide it, but last week Mr Calvert was contacted by his social worker to say it would end in three weeks.

He told BBC News Northern Ireland that he thought somebody was winding him up.

His care is provided by Connected Health but that’s expected to end on 1 December.

They told BBC News Northern Ireland that it would comment on the care provided to individuals but that like other care providers, they were being increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances.

Eddy Kerr from Connected Health told the BBC’s Evening Extra programme the sector was struggling in terms of staffing, resources and funding.

He added that there was a lot of unmet need out there and certainty, as a provider, they were under pressure to meet that need.

Mr Kerr said the pressure was coming from a lack of funding, and that decisions had to be made weekly, daily, hourly, with regards to the care they were able to provide.

In a statement, Connected Health said that they would continue to lobby hard for the necessary resources to care for the thousands of vulnerable adults waiting for a package of care in Northern Ireland.

The care company said that they were increasingly stretched, but surely they should care for the most needed people first, and I don’t think that there could be anyone more in need than this man.

He should sue the Government because they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on, pardon the pun. They have a duty of care towards this man and other people like him.

This has to be one of the sickest stories ever. What the hell is going on with our Government? However, this is nothing unusual – this is normal behaviour these days, which is why people should quit paying their taxes for services they no longer get.

Life today is super unfair and cruel because we force people like this to live like this, and he doesn’t have any other choice.

McDonald’s Security Guard Sacked After Mopping Where Homeless Man Was Sitting

A McDonald’s security guard has been sacked after footage showed him cleaning the pavement where a homeless guy was sitting.

The video, taken in Victoria Street in Central London on Saturday night, shows the water seeping under the homeless man’s sleeping bag and duvet.

He’d been sitting with the bedding outside a Nationwide bank, next door to the McDonald’s when the guard began mopping in front of both businesses.

At one point the guard was seen booting the bedding out of the way, as the man was heard saying ‘Leave me alone’.

Another security guard tries to prevent the person filming the incident, to which he responds: ‘I’m allowed to film. This is outrageous behaviour.

‘You have to admit that is outrageous behaviour. You’ve covered his sleeping bag! That’s wrong and you know that.’

Other witnesses could also be heard defending the homeless man.

Damon Evans, who posted the footage on X (formerly Twitter), tagged McDonald’s and asked: ‘Do you think it is acceptable for your staff to soak the sleeping bags of homeless people in the middle of winter (or any other time of the year)?

‘Disgusting behaviour. He wasn’t even outside your premises.’

McDonald’s UK initially responded on X saying: ‘Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It is not one of our employees but a third-party security guard.’

The fast food chain later posted: ‘We are shocked and saddened by this incident.

‘The third-party security guards involved have been permanently removed from our restaurants and the restaurant team has been reminded of the importance of treating all people with respect, including vulnerable people both in the restaurant and within the wider community.

‘We would like to wholeheartedly apologise to the gentleman in the video and will work with the council to locate him and make amends as part of our ongoing work to support homelessness charities in and around the area.’

To be honest I don’t believe I’ve ever met a friendly and intelligent security guard. Perhaps someone out there can shed some light on what happens?

The security guard was in the wrong. He should have just left the homeless man alone and then should have gone and mopped up someplace else. Anyway, when did it become a security guard’s job to clean up outside McDonald’s? That’s a cleaner’s job.

Perhaps he should have a job mopping up Parliament, with a bit of antiseptic on the Tory side.

It appears that no one gives a damn about the homeless now, and this guard in particular was completely devoid of humanity.

Being homeless can happen to any one of us at any time given the current economic crisis. Anybody could lose their job for any reason, then give it a few months and you wouldn’t be able to pay your bills anymore and could even end up on the streets.

This security guard was evil. He soaked this homeless man’s bedding. It’s freezing outside and once soaked this homeless person had no way to dry it, and it could have been enough to kill the poor man from hypothermia.

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started