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Nicola and Polly’s story: street harassment with a megaphone

Published on November 18,2011 at 10:07 am in Your Story, no comments 

My flatmate and I caught the bus out to Kilbirnie then walked through some shops for an Opportunity for Animals opshop sale which was on. A car full of young men drove past and suddenly we heard a “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” gross gurgling sound and cat-calls coming out of a speaker on the car, and saw them laughing while talked in to a mouthpiece connected to something on the roof by a wire. They had actually invested money and resources in their objectification of women and installed a megaphone to harass women with. This was at like 5pm in broad daylight, too.

I hope they had a minor, non-serious, accident which didn’t hurt them as people but destroyed their stupid speaker thing. Why are people so awful?!

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