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Lack of sprinkle doughnuts sparks confrontation
Just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, police pulled up to the Tim Horton’s on Patterson Road. Contrary to the stereotype, they were not there to eat.
They had been called after a customer confronted an employee over the restaurant’s lack of sprinkle doughnuts.
The employee told police a customer came to the drive-thru and became enraged when told there were no sprinkle doughnuts currently available. The driver, later identified as a 21-year-old man, pulled up to the drive-thru window and began cursing at the employee, according to the employee. The driver’s passenger — his 21-year-old female roommate — also joined the dressing down, according to the employee.
As some point, the driver entered the doughnut shop, grabbed the headset off the employee’s head and threw it across the restaurant. In so doing, the employee said the driver pulled his hair, causing pain.
The driver then left. Some 30 minutes later, a man identified as the driver’s brother came to the Tim Horton’s and threatened to beat the employee, according to the police report.
Police left Tim Horton’s and went to the driver’s home. The driver admitted an altercation with the employee, who, he said, twice called him a derogatory name. The driver said he did remove the employee’s headset, but denied pulling the employee’s hair.
The driver was issued a summons for misdemeanor assault and menacing.
When officers returned to the Tim Horton’s later in the morning, the manager informed them the surveillance system “was messed up,” and he had no video for them.
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