On Monday 20th July my best friend and I were walking along a road in Clifton, Bristol when we got cat called and harassed by a group of 5-6 male scaffolders. I made a note of the company name on the van. It was Bristol Access Scafolding. I decided to contact the company... /1

...To complain. It’s 2020 and I am fucking bored of women being treated like this. I called the number listed on their Yelp page, no reply. I then received a text from the same number so I replied, as you can see in the image here. I then received a tirade of abuse... /2

... I then received two missed calls off the same number. By this point I was too scared to pick up. My friends and I decided it was best to contact the police. I called 101 and explained to them what had happened and read out the message to them. Yesterday, 23rd of July... /3

... I received a follow up call from a Police Officer who asked me what I wanted her to do about the situation. I was a bit confused by this, but we decided she would contact the company and give them a warning. She called back about 20 minutes later and told me she had... 4/

... Been in contact with the man who’d sent those messages, and he had said that he thought it was a friend sending those messages and he was joking with them, and that he had not had any workers on that road that day... I don’t really know why I’m putting this on Twitter... 5/

... I don’t know what I want the outcome of this to be. What I do know, is that that man is an absolute bullshitter. Why would he have asked ‘who is it?’ if he thought it was a friend messaging. Why would you talk to a friend like that? Why do you treat women like that? 6/

... I do know that I would highly recommend NOT using the company Bristol Access Scaffolding and I would also highly recommend not treating women like objects, and belittling them in the road. I am fucking bored of it. So are all my female AND male friends. 7/

Anyhoo, that’s it. @bristolpostcom @bristol247 @BristolLive you might be interested in this. No worries if not. Peace out peeps! Be kind. And yes, I am antifa 8/

It has come to my attention that there might be two or more companies under the same name. The van said Bristol Access Scaffolding on in orange and black writing and I found a number online.

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