Dunkin' Donuts employees have been fired for dumping water on a homeless man.
The sickening incident took place at a store in Syracuse, New York on Sunday evening (local time).
Video posted to Facebook shows a man wearing the franchise uniform walking up to a table where another man can be seen slumped over, resting his head on his arms.
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Holding a pitcher of water, the employee says "You want to sleep?" before emptying the pitcher all over the man's head and shoulders.
The person filming, another employee, can be heard spluttering with laughter as the man jumps up to protect his phone which was plugged into a charger.
"How many times I got to tell you to stop sleeping in here, my n****r?" the man who poured the water can be heard saying.
"You're here all day - how many times do customers and people have to tell you to stop sleeping in here?"
Now soaking wet, the man mutters something while the employees continue to laugh.
"It was no accident bro, you know I'm not playing with you," the culprit says. "I'm not going to call the cops on you, but you got to get out of here."
The victim of the water prank has been identified as Jeremy Dufresne, a homeless man who often goes into the same Dunkin' Donuts store to warm himself up and charge his phone.
He told The Syracuse Post-Standard that on Sunday he plugged his phone into the charger so that he could call his mother to wish her goodnight, which he does every evening.
He says he had only just put his head down on the table when the pitcher of water was emptied over him.
"He probably had some personal problems of his own and needed someone to talk to," Mr Dufresne says of the worker who poured the water. "And he took it out on someone else, like me."
That worker has since been fired along with several other employees involved in the prank, according to a statement from The Wolak Group which owns the store.
"We were extremely disturbed by the behaviour of our employees captured in the video," the statement read.
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