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A Southern Rail employee chucked a bucket of water at a vegan after he wrote an anti-meat message outside a train station.

The irritated worker was caught on camera by Jason Wiegand as she tried to soak him outside Polegate station in East Sussex.

Mr Wiegand, reported to have been a vegan for 17 months, had written “nothing humane ever happens in the slaughterhouse” in chalk on the pavement moments before the worker appeared.

Bizarre footage has emerged of Mr Wiegand and the worker wishing one another "good morning" before she aims the bucket at him and walks off.

Southern has admitted the incident was "wrong" but added the employee had been "goaded" by the vegan protester after several messages at the station.

(Image: SausageOnABike/twitter) (Image: SausageOnABike/twitter)

Jason told the Sun: "Another member of the public was there and said ‘she can’t do that’.

“I wasn’t writing anything offensive, just facts and facts only.

“I sometimes take myself off to speak to the public about being vegan and normally I get a good reception.”

A Southern 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."