(CNN) Seven dollars multiplied by empathy on an online fundraising page equals more than $11,000 for a pizza delivery guy who received an apology for how he was treated at a Massachusetts business. 
 
 The sales manager of a Westport car dealership has apologized "for the actions" of employees caught on camera "belittling" the delivery driver. The conversation in an office focused on whether the driver believed he had received a tip or should have made change for the order. 
 
 "We will [sic] like to apologize for the actions that led to this situation, this embarrassing video gone viral on the Internet, was not released by any employee of F&R Auto Sales," Gary Batista, sales manager for the business, said in a statement provided to CNN. 
 
 A GoFundme.Com page set up by a woman who saw the video had raised $11,500 for the driver by Thursday night. 
 
 The situation began Saturday, when Palace Pizza delivery guy Jarrid Tansey delivered $42 worth of pizzas and drinks to the dealership. He was paid $50 in two $20s and two $5s, said Palace Pizza manager Adam Willoughby. 
 
 When he returned from the delivery, someone from the car dealership called Willoughby, asking for the driver to return with change -- roughly $7 and some coins. 
 
 The video begins when Tansey returns to the dealership with the money. 
 
 Upon handing over the change to a man seated behind a desk, Tansey can be heard saying, "It just doesn't make sense why you'd hand me a bill that you were just gonna have me drive back here to give you back anyway." 
 
 The man says to Tansey, "I gave you everything they gave me so we would get the correct change." 
 
 The two go back and forth a few more times, neither giving up his position. 
 
 "I'm not mad, I just had to waste my resources coming back here," Tansey says as he starts to leave. 
 
 The man says to Tansey, "The manager apologized once for you, do you want him to apologize again for you?"" 
 
 Tansey responds, "You got your $7 back, so the world is right now." 
 
 One female employee follows Tansey out of the office, saying to him, "Out the door before I put my foot in your a**," which prompts her co-workers to erupt in laughter. 
 
 That woman's employment has since been terminated, according to Batista's statement. One of those involved was not an employee, he said. 
 
 The video ends after another man, also using expletives, instructs his colleague to get Tansey's "owner and manager" on the phone. 
 
 "I want him fired," he says. 
 
 Amanda Rogers, a former waitress, was so moved after seeing Tansey's video on LiveLeak, she called the pizza shop to find out the driver's name so she could send him a check. 
 
 "For them to call him back over money he should've received anyway," Rogers said, "I decided to take it one step further." 
 
 "Why not get the kid more than he deserves?" she said. 
 
 Rogers set up the fundraising page for Tansey. It's entitled "Get Jarrid his tip money!" 
 
 Many are leaving donations in $7 increments, the amount Tansey drove back to return to the dealership. One commenter wrote, "You are a good example of someone treating people the way you want to be treated." 
 
 Rogers, who was a stranger to Tansey and his wife before this all started, said she hopes the response would prove that, "people are actually nice out there." 
 
 The video, seemingly shot by a stationary surveillance camera, was initially posted on YouTube with the headline "irate pizza driver." It has since been made private, and it's unclear who posted it, though Batista said in his statement the person is not an employee of F&R Auto Sales and had no authorization to do so. 
 
 Batista said the owner and proprietor plan to offer Tansey a cash donation, though his statement doesn't specify how much or whether they've spoken to the driver. 
 
 Willoughby said the son of the owner of the dealership stopped by Palace Pizza on Wednesday to offer an apology in person. 
 
 Willoughby said the response at Palace Pizza has also been overwhelming. 
 
 "It's been tough to make pizzas with all the calls we've taken," he said. ||||| A video of car dealership employees in Westport getting into a heated argument with a local pizza delivery man over $7 has led to Internet anger and a personal apology. 
 
 The video, posted on Liveleak, begins with a delivery man returning $7 in cash to the dealership that he had thought was a tip. By the end of the video, one dealership worker threatens to “put my foot in your ass” and another says he will call the delivery man’s manager and get him fired. 
 
 (Warning: The video contains some NSFW language.) 
 
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 The delivery man in the video is an employee at Palace Pizza named Jarrid Tansey, according to two employees there. Lianette Hernandez, a cook and cashier, and Adam Willoughby, a manager, confirmed the video came from an interaction at the nearby dealership F&R Auto Sales on Saturday. 
 
 The total bill for the pizza and drinks was just over $42, Hernandez said, and dealership workers gave Tansey $50 in two twenties and two fives. In the video, Tansey says he confirmed that they wanted to give the whole $50, and then left with what he assumed was a $7-and-change tip. 
 
 However, the dealership then called the pizza place back and forced him to return the $7-and-change, and he was left without a tip, leading to the heated conversation on video. 
 
 “It just doesn’t make sense why you’d hand me a bill that you were just gonna have me drive back here to give you back anyway,” Tansey says in the video. “I’m not mad, I just had to waste my resources coming back here.” 
 
 But the office-workers are adamant about their position in the video. 
 
 “So listen: The manager apologized once for you. Do you want him to apologize again for you?” the worker in blue says. 
 
 “Out the door before I put my foot in your ass,” a female office-worker in green says. 
 
 “Get the f---ing owner and the manager on the phone, I want that mother-f---er done,” another man in the office says after Tansey leaves. “I want him fired.” 
 
 The video was originally posted on YouTube, but it has since been made private. However, a Google index of the video shows the title as originally being “irate pizza driver.” The angle of the video suggests it comes from a stationary security camera inside the dealership’s office. 
 
 Willoughby, who was working that night, said he got a call from F&R Auto Sales saying that Tansey had “verbally berated” them. He said they took the call seriously at first and asked Tansey about the interaction. After Tansey explained what had happened, managers decided not to discipline the driver. 
 
 “This isn’t the first time we have had problems with F&R Auto,” Willoughby said. 
 
 “All the time, there’s always a problem, always an issue,” Hernandez said. “We’ve been going back and forth with them for a long time.” 
 
 Palace Pizza has been getting supportive calls all day from across the country, and several people have pledged to raise or donate money for Tansey. 
 
 In addition, the owner of the dealership and his son came by to apologize to Palace Pizza in person on Wednesday. 
 
 “I was the manager on that night, and today they came and spoke to me, profusely apologized,” Willoughby said. “We both want to make things right between us. We don’t want any bad blood.” 
 
 Commenters who claim to have seen the YouTube video before it was made private identify the dealership as F & R Auto Sales in Westport. Review pages of that dealership on Yelp and Google were being flooded with negative ratings on Wednesday. In addition, the dealership’s website struggled to load. 
 
 Calls to the dealership through their main phone line did not go through. Messages left through the site’s Google Connect link, Facebook account, listed email, and on Twitter were not immediately returned. ||||| This is one of those stories that, at first, just seems simple and terrible. Unfortunately, the more that gets revealed, the less simple everything becomes. The whole thing revolves around one awful event: a 1981 DeLorean destroyed by fire. However, since it’s blown up on the local news and Car Internet, a lot of people are asking questions about what happened. 
 
 Around noon on Jan. 5, Daryl Kemsley, a 22-year old YouTuber with a taste for exotic cars, was driving his 1981 DeLorean, his childhood dream car. Kemsley claims he had just agreed to sell the DeLorean for $70,000, and was driving the car back from a mechanic after a pre-sale inspection. 
 
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 During the drive in Orem, Utah, Kemsley claims in a Facebook post that he was rear-ended by a driver who fled the scene. Although the impact was said to be minor, when Kemsley said he attempted to pursue the other driver, he found that the DeLorean wouldn’t go more than 25 or 30 mph, and noted smoke from the rear, as he explained to me in a series of Facebook messages. 
 
 He pulled into a nearby Rite Aid parking lot, where he noticed flames coming from the car’s rear engine bay, the Facebook post said. 
 
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 Already a bad day, sure, but it gets worse. Kemsley claims that he went into the Rite Aid and asked to use their fire extinguisher, but was refused by an employee. Kemsley describes it in the Facebook post, which has been shared more than 4,000 times as of this writing: 
 
 “I called 911 and ran into rite aid, and politely asked the cashier if I can borrow their fire extinguisher that was RIGHT there next to her. She told me that I could not use it because it was company property. I then pointed to my car on fire, and all she said was “Call 911”, (I already was talking to them on the phone). I then ask if she can help or go extinguish it since she wouldn’t let me use it, and she told me she didn’t know how to use it. I stood there in front of her for minutes begging and pleading to borrow the fire extinguisher, all while the flames got bigger. Eventually, a stranger handed me a portable fire extinguisher he had, and I tried to go fight the now huge flames with it, but it was too late. The flame eventually engulfed my vintage, collectors 1 previous owner DeLorean (that I was selling for a large amount later today), and the fire department put it out.” 
 
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 Yes, this is absolutely maddening. The idea that a car—let alone an interesting vintage car—could be on fire in a parking lot, and yet the use of a fire extinguisher is denied for inane reasons and ignorance is, of course, terrible. 
 
 Kemsley certainly appears to be a victim of many things: a hit-and-run driver, the alarming act of a DeLorean self-immolating from a very minor traffic incident, the callous disregard and ignorance of the Rite Aid employee, and fate itself. 
 
 The details of what started the fire aren’t clear, exactly. An impact to the rear of a DeLorean doesn’t seem like the sort of thing likely to start a fire, since a DeLorean has its fuel system components mostly clustered at the opposite end of the engine, by the firewall. Still, it’s an old car, so anything is possible when it comes to things going wrong. 
 
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 (I spoke with a Walgreens-Rite Aid spokesperson about the situation, and they declined to comment until they conduct more research into the situation.) 
 
 This is not the first time Kemsley has had such terrible luck with cars. Last year his BMW i8 was severely vandalized, and he offered a well-publicized $10,000 reward for information about who was responsible. 
 
 Of course, not all of this may be as it seems, because there appears to be more going on here. 
 
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 As I was talking to Kemsley, I got an email from DeLorean Performance Industries with the subject line “DeLorean Arson Utah.” An incendiary subject line, for sure. 
 
 DeLorean Performance Industries (DPI) is a repair and restoration shop well-known in that car’s community of owners. DPI had done some work on Kemsley’s car, but not a full restoration, though this was claimed by Kemsley’s eBay ad used to sell the DeLorean: 
 
 “This DeLorean has gone through extensive restoration at DeLorean Performance Industries totaling around $30,000.” 
 
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 We can be sure the ad is for Kemsley’s DeLorean because the VIN referenced in the ad matches the last four digits of the one mentioned by Kemsley in a Facebook post from yesterday: 
 
 Here’s what the company told me: 
 
 “We have unfortunately been fighting this individual for months due to his false advertising of his vehicle as one of our build cars. All in an attempt to get a premium in the sale to an unsuspecting buyer. We have stopped over a dozen sales of this car prior to the fire as interested parties contacted us directly for the build details of our product. It is rare for one of our innovative builds to hit the market privately as they are serialized and built to order raising flags all over the DeLorean community leading up to this. Out of financial desperation he decided to destroy torch the car in an attempt to collect his assured value.” 
 
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 As evidence of their claims, DeLorean Performance Industries sent me screenshots of text exchanges with Kemsley where they requested that ads for the sale of his DeLorean be changed because the text could be “misinterpreted as we did a full restoration on this car.” 
 
 They also requested that references to them be deleted from YouTube, and complained to him that people were under the impression that they had restored the car, which they had not. 
 
 They don’t have any direct proof that the fire was intentional, despite their suggestions that it was set deliberately because Kemsley had financial issues and was hoping for an insurance payout. 
 
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 I’ve reached out to the Orem, Utah police department to see if I could find out how the fire was being investigated. I have yet to hear a response, though a somewhat strange post on the Orem Police Department’s Facebook page suggests that they are aware: 
 
 There’s a video of the burning DMC from some passers-by, but all it shows is that most people have no idea where a DeLorean’s engine is and probably watch too many gangster movies: 
 
 
 
 And still, there is some confusing testimony surrounding the fire itself. 
 
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 In a comment that has now been removed from Kemsley’s initial post, a Facebook user named Megan Kessler commented, among all the predictable Back to the Future jokes: 
 
 “Hey, remember me? I’m the girl who handed you the Rite-Aid fire extinguisher, which you refused, because you said you had already tried using one and it didn’t help. I’m not sure what happened after I left the store, but you were not refused a fire extinguisher. Why are you lying about this story?” 
 
 I asked Kemsley about this comment, and he responded that he had replied in the thread, and went on to say that 
 
 “Yes, my comments are on that thread. She did not even appear until it was too late to save, and apparently just stole it from rite aid without asking. I already used the small extinguisher from a stranger at this point and was suffering my injuries. At this point flames were 5-7 feet.” 
 
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 Complicating the situation further is that a GoFundMe drive with a $50,000 goal was started to raise money to replace the car, though Kemsley insists he had nothing to do with the GoFundMe, and has not had any contact with the person who started it, Brian N. Godfrey. 
 
 I spoke with Godfrey, and it appears that he did not know Kemsley, and made the GoFundMe as a nice gesture from someone loves 1980s cars and who’s had experience with car fires. When asked why he started the GoFundMe, Godfrey told me: 
 
 A common friend of his told me he was a good kid, and he earned all of the money himself and his parents didn’t help, etc. I went by that testimony initially. I’m sure he’s got haters who are just jealous, but, because he hasn’t responded to me, I’m not sure what to really believe. I had no idea how much money he had made or does make, I just felt horrible that he had to watch his dream car burn up and that the rite aid employees wouldn’t or couldn’t help. 
 
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 He has had no contact with Kemsley, despite repeated attempts to contact him. (And as of Tuesday, the GoFundMe page has been deleted.) 
 
 Kemsley insists the fire was not deliberate, and has some very specific thoughts regarding what he feels would be a reasonable end to this mess: 
 
 “My insurance and car is a complete financial loss- I’ve come to terms with it. I want a public apology from Rite Aid, and their employees to be trained to handle safety equipment, which they legally should, and better management and training on the employees they hire.” 
 
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 Kemsley continues: 
 
 “This story is on the news everywhere, but a personal end goal I want is to be interviewed by my favorite YouTuber, Ethan Klein of H3. In the past he has done all the proper research and given justice to people in similar positions. I believe he has the reach and influence to explain the whole situation throughly and give me the justice I am longing for.” 
 
 If this is Ethan Klein he’s referring to, I’m even more confused. 
 
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 So, what the hell is going on here? Is this a genuine accident, exacerbated by some very questionable policies and behaviors on the part of Rite Aid? 
 
 
 
 Or, is it possible this could be, as DeLorean Performance Industries and others are suggesting, a non-accidental fire? 
 
 All we can really say for sure is that there is one mint DeLorean less in the world and everything is always painfully and depressingly more complicated than it seems.
– A pizza deliveryman confronted by workers at a Massachusetts car dealership over $7 may soon reap the financial rewards of staying cool under pressure. Employees at Westport's F&R Auto Sales gave Jarrid Tansey two $20 bills and two $5 bills for an order just over $42, the Boston Globe reports. Tansey says he confirmed the extra $7 was his tip and left, but F&R employees called his manager to make him return and give the money back. It's all on videotape: When Tansey tells them, "I'm not mad, I just had to waste my resources coming back here," it fans the flames: One woman tells Tansey as he's leaving to get "out the door before I put my foot in your a--"; a man pipes in, "Get the f---ing owner and the manager on the phone, I want that mother-f---er … fired." The video ended up on LiveLeak, and viewers rallied to Tansey's side. Former waitress Amanda Rogers was so angry that she set up a GoFundMe page for him, CNN reports. Her efforts have raised more than $21,000 as of this posting, with many of the donations in (appropriately enough) $7 increments. "We will [sic] like to apologize for the actions that led to this situation, this embarrassing video gone viral on the Internet, was not released by any employee of F&R Auto Sales," says a statement from F&R's sales manager. The company's Yelp reviews may say it all: Although it can't be said for sure how many reviews were influenced by the video, most of the 2,100 or so ratings there are one star.