To feel shaken by this incident and want to leave work?

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I often drive along a section of main road which holds water in heavy rain and I always take care to move out or creep through the puddle to avoid splashing anyone. I would also recommend keeping an eye out for puddles if you are walking and checking it's clear before you walk past them - I do that too because sadly there are loads of idiot drivers out there.

@Cynthiaramsey i am very angry on your behalf and would have totally asked my boss to go home.

I don’t know if anyone else mentioned this, but sometimes the shops have CCTV cameras that can film outside. You can explain the situation and ask them for the footage of the time the incident happened. They can definitely give you the footage of that moment, just bring a stick with you. With this you can report to the police or call the vans company.

It is an offence.
Hideous behaviour.
It happened to me once, water went right over my head and I reported it to the police who followed it up.

Aw, that's awful. Some men are total idiots. Probably been drinking or drugs involved. Glad your boss let you go home, that's kind. Just forget about it and don't let them bring you down. Probably don't have a brain cell between them

Reading this has just made me remember a nasty thing that happened to me the other week. I was walking down the pavement of my street approaching my house and a man was walking in the opposite direction. He eyeballed me with a fixed and what I can only describe as a creepy grin on his face. Then as I was getting my keys out to open my door he started making wanking gestures from his groin. What the actual fuck is that about other than trying to cause upset and distress? . I did feel a bit shaken as he obviously had seen where I lived and I am a survivor of a serious sexual assault which was perpetrated by someone who followed me when I was walking home from work. It makes me so angry that we just cannot live our lives in peace

It happened 2 days ago.
She went home the day it happened and probably the next day and today as well.

Total arsewipes, hopefully some driver has got it recorded on dash cam & uploaded to YouTube. I remember a bmw driver got pulled over by the police because they did the very same thing to an older chap.

Men don’t think, don’t ask,tell him due to the incident you r going home to change and get dry. The van guys are moronic twats I wish u had got their number or name on van because their act was criminal and they could have been done for verbal abuse too. It was not your fault don’t let them spoil your day karma will take care of them take care of yourself!

yes, if you can remember what time it was, the police might be able to find camera footage of the van, even if further along the road, soon before or soon after the incident, to hopefully be able to identify which company the van is registered to and hopefully the driver.
it is illegal to purposely drive through a puddle to splash pedestrians.
someone did that to me while I was pregnant too, they sped off so fast before I could get their plate number, also coz it's difficult to think of that at the time when still in shock from what happened 😅

What is it with (some) men and vehicles? Being encased in metal suddenly gives them an overwhelming sense of bravado and invulnerability - rather like a suit of armour, I suppose but with a powerful engine.

I've lost track of the times some dick has cut across me at a roundabout and when I've hooted at them, they've slowed down in front of me, even stopping, which is obviously designed to intimidate me - ooooh, suppose the big, brave man gets out of their car to confront me?

Except they don't as soon as they realise that my car is wired up with cameras like the BBC covering the Grand National. They're identifiable, they can be held accountable, they can be traced. And this is the thing - they're brave when they think they can get away with it. They are pathetic, nasty, little men who add nothing good to the world and won't grieve the world by leaving it.

I don't blame you for feeling shocked and distressed. Anyone would - it was a horrible experience and you've been left with both mental and physical discomfort and the inconvenience of needing to leave work to dry off. It's unfair. Personally, I'd be seething and wanting revenge but then I have to remind myself that all that does is upset me even further.

Not, mind you, if you manage to get some CCTV (or the police can) or recognise the company's logo you shouldn't report it! There's such a thing as being too philosophical.

Bless you! This is actually an offence now but without the reg you might not be able to report it. I think you should have definitely left work. Hope you’re ok!

you have absolutely no need to feel embarrassed. If it had happened to me I would’ve felt exactly the same and very upset. I’m glad you were able to go home and I hope you’re feeling better now. Those men should be ashamed of themselves

I hope you are ok now ♥️.

I hope the bastards try that shit with the wrong person and get a brick through their van window.

That's awful. It's an assault, really, a d an abusive one. I'm not surprised you're upset.

OP- i have a late stage illness and it’s scary as H and if that had happened to he not only would i be in floods of tears and in no fit state to work but psyically it’d just about finish me off!
Now i am sure you are not in terminal illness like myself (well i hope not!!) but even without having that .. the filthy cold water isn’t good for your health

you need to say to your boss (i appreciate the time may have gone by now as im typing this late as only just seen this post ) but i hope you told the boss that you’ve got women’s things going on or just be outright and say your bleeding and that they’re verbal attack has triggered you and that the cold filthy water has actually got inside all of your clothes including underwear and totally unsanitary for you

I hate these ‘men’ for doing this and i wish bad things happened to people like them

Exactly this. I just read lots of the posts and I’m so sad how often this happens to women.
It’s a shit state of affairs 😔

Firstly what immature idiots there are, you think that when people turn 18 they click into sensible humans, sadly not. Sadly people like this are around.
next time be firm to your boss, explain what happened and say “clearly I need to go home and change”. I have learnt not to ask but to politely inform on such occasions.

How are you feeling today OP? Did you report the van? We need to keep speaking up and exposing these low lifers! Don’t let them get you down MN has your back

Not only did they soak you, but I believe shouting an obscenity at you could be classed as common assault, especially as it shows intent.

Glad you are warm and dry now.

I hope their homes become flea infested and all their food goes off and gives them the shits.

All these accounts of casual misogyny are precisely why the OP should ignore posters telling her not to report this crime of assault to the police and ignore those criticising her shaken up reaction to it. Men who go on to do much worse things always start somewhere. OK 9/10 misogynists in a van may turn out to be nothing more than arseholes, but so what? Women having to put up with casual sex based and sexual assault has gone on too long unchecked. Fuck them, let them get collared by the police and lose their jobs.

This happened to my cleaner on her way to my house - she was in floods of tears and genuinely beside herself. I gave her dry clothes and a cuppa as ANY employer would do.

I don't think it's dramatic - you have been physically and verbally attacked!

Go to the police and report this. Its akin to an assault! Deliberately speeding up to soak some one is disrespectful and shouting out "slag" is an escalation to an entire other thing.Sounds like the types that could think it was okay to physically attack a woman based on their visual perception of how they look or dress. Please report this. Take care. Don't let it get you down though. Bloody Morons!!

What a revolting assault. 💐

Hope you’re feeling better OP. Nasty little misogynist losers.

I think this is now illegal ,and the police would be interested.There was a case of a driver splashing a young mum and her DC. police were behind him and he was stopped and charged .It is often misogynist as well .Big men in big van intimidating lone females .Unlikely to do the same to a 6 feet male!

I was waiting for a taxi outside a taxi cab office a couple of years ago and a car with 5 guys drove by, one hanging out the window screaming "i want to f**k you up the arse!".
I was 50.
The attempts to humilliate never stops.
Perhaps its ok to hate them when merited and go against our conveniently suppressive training?
Afterall they dont seem willing to restrain themselves, anywhere in the world.