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This is the bizarre moment a Southern Rail employee threw water at a 'goading' vegan who was protesting outside a railway station.
Jason Wiegan, 49, wrote 'nothing humane ever happens in the slaughterhouse' outside Polegate station in East Sussex before the worker tried to soak him.
The engineer said 'that's nice' as he was targeted by the woman who strolled out with an orange bucket.
Southern Rail said it was 'sorry' but pointed out Mr Wiegan had been 'scrawling slogans on the platform and by the ticket gates' on several occasions.
Mr Wiegan, who became vegan because of animal cruelty concerns, told Jamie Bullen of The Sun: 'I wasn't writing anything offensive, just facts and facts only.'
A Southern Rail spokesman said: 'This was wrong and we're sorry – we'll be speaking to our member of staff.
'However, this "campaigner" is affecting everyone at our station – not just us but our tenants and the shops – and has on several occasions been scrawling slogans on the platform, by the ticket gates and outside the shops.
'Our staff member was literally having to follow him around to clean up afterwards and was clearly goaded.'
Southern Rail recently had to delay services from one station after cows invaded the platform.
Trains from Hever Station in Kent were running late while services between Oxted and Uckfield were cancelled altogether.
A herd of up to 60 cows arrived out of nowhere and congregated on the platform.
The bizarre sight was posted on Twitter showing Hever station platform crammed with black and white cattle.