The news story never does say that the guy who poured the
water on the homeless guy & his dog was an employee for
sure (allegedly an employee was the term used), but it did
say this:
Morrison said a man came out of the Tim Hortons with a
bucket, which he poured under a homeless man who was
sleeping on cardboard and blankets with his dog.
"He didn’t throw it on him," she said. "He poured it underneath
so the blankets and consequently the dog and the man were
both soaked. The [homeless] man jumped up. He was obviously
shouting. The dog looked shocked and they started moving all of
their stuff around the corner to the entrance of the IGA, which is
where they remained."
Morrison said the man re-emerged from the Tim Hortons with a
straw broom and proceeded to sweep beverage cups, sheets of
cardboard and the remains of plastic garbage bags from the
sleeping mat down the sidewalk away from the store.
The guy wasn't necessarily an employee, but may have been a
patron who happened to stop for his double-double and also
happened to have brought along a bucket and a straw broom.
It could happen. Life is full of coincidences.