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

I had this happen to me when I was with my kids in a double buggy. They didn"t speed up or shout but they still did it on purpose. It was absolutely awful as my children and I were soaked, and I felt attacked and like I'd let my children down. Luckily I was only a few mins from home. I hope you are feeling better now OP xx

Well good for him. Sounds like good parenting. Shame more boys/men aren't more like this! And yes, the woman who ends up with him is a lucky one for sure.

🤣🤣🤣.

I’ve just remembered my mum telling me one time. She witnessed a teenage lad insult a girl, and his mate got hold of him and said. Don’t ever treat a girl like that and certainly never in front of me ever again.
That'd be about 30 years ago now maybe more. Whoever he ended up with is very lucky women/man.

I have a new found respect for the police since the break in. I may be being harsh with the OP but the police really do have better things to do than chase down cctv for someone splashed by a puddle.

Do not do this. Stop wasting police resources for every little incident. You are fine and they are wankers. Go to bed knowing that karma is a real thing and their dicks will probably rot and drop off tomorrow.

Oh dear @iamtheblcksheep i hope this gets resolved, sounds worrying.

Seriously?! Two firearms were stolen from our premises in an overnight robbery (farm). The police are so over stretched they don’t have the resources to deal with this never mind someone being splashed by water. OP I’m sorry this happened to you but please don’t waste police time.

So true, that kind of behaviour is reflexive.

@Cooper77 would you believe that was my case. Had just finished a 2 day vigil by my dying father’s bed, had collected his possessions at the hospital and was heading to the train station on my bike when some dickhead came up behind me and made some blood curdling cry as I was going round a roundabout , I nearly fell off my bike. To be blunt, I suspect it’s because 1) it was Margate and 2) I was on a Brompton and that marked me out as some kind of class enemy as far as the little tosser was concerned.

Ahh I’m really sorry this happened, it’s really horrible isn’t it.
Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I had finished a night shift and was having to stay up to bake my little boy a birthday cake for the next day. I was nipping to a shop as I had run out of an ingredient, and was driving along a dual carriageway. The road was flooded so all the cars filtered into 1 lane and were all going slowly, except 2 men in a van came driving in the lane next to me ridiculously fast right through a huge flooded area. I had all my windows open as it was a hot day, it was like a huge wave crashing into my car. I was absolutely drenched. My whole car was soaked through and it took weeks to dry 😢, it then stunk of damp for ages. I was so so upset. I was already tired and emotional not having any sleep, and the 2 men were pointing and laughing at me hysterically. I felt really shook up and I was raging.
Some people are just horrid!
Glad you are home now and all toasty

I wonder why you felt the need to leave such a harsh comment @Errors?

How did you react when you were randomly targeted this way? Or are you only imagining how easily you'd shake it off?

Not that it matters really - maybe you do have a thicker skin than all the people who have shared the impact of similar experiences.. so what?

We don't know the OP's work circumstances, age or relationship with their manager. All might make a difference to their confidence levels.

Thanks for that Runsyd. :)

The guys were absolute bellends but I think you’re being a bit dramatic to be shaken by it.

With regards to work, I actually can’t believe you would just sit there in wet clothes. You are a grown up. You should have just said to your boss ‘I am going to go home and change and wfh for the rest of the day, see you tomorrow’

It’s hardly a sackable offence and completely understandable?! Why would you even feel the need to check with a bunch of strangers?

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Sorry my post wasn't clear. I dont know how to reference other posters when they query post

I was saying that the abuse is the issue. It's not fine for anyone to abuse someone in the street.

Screaming offensive accusations at someone not founded is slander. The guys in the van likely don't know the OP.

It's basically an attack at the OPs gender. This attack would not have happen to a man.

For me the issue here not so much the drenching. Though the drenching obviously is annoying.

It's a woman hating act

This happened to me about ten years ago, I turned my head just in time to see a van deliberately swerve into a huge puddle in order to soak me. The driver must have thought it was hilarious and wouldn't have had any idea that I was already having a really shit time as my mum was seriously ill.
I didn't report it but wish I had, I just swear every time I see one of the company vans.

What's interesting from this thread is how many of us it's happened to and how we all still remember the experience. I wonder if the perpetrators still remember the exact circumstances years later or if it's just all in a days work for them? And how they'd feel if someone did it to their daughter, wife or mother?

I do agree with you to an extent, yet many people manage somehow to contain themselves and not abuse their fellow travellers in the street.

And to balance things out, even in cities like London, people would often kindly do things without being asked, like help me carry baby DS and pushchair up steps (DS now a strapping 14 year old who would give someone a hernia if they tried to carry him up stairs these days).

What dickheads. I hope you'll be OK at home.
If you did find the name of the company or the reg.no then you could report them, but it's too late for that. There might have been CCTV, could you maybe contact the council?

They really should do. Crimes against women often start with 'minor offences' and escalate. Look at Wayne Cousins. He felt he could get away with anything and there were many 'small' incidents which went uninvestigated for far too long.

There's obviously at least one aspect of what happened today aimed at a woman for simply being a woman. Would they have done this to another man?
Doubtful. I know they are overstretched but I think this kind of thing is exactly what needs clamping down on.

OP I hope there is CCTV. They need teaching a lesson.

That is classified as assault, from what I remember dd's driving instructor telling her.

Someone who was driving around there at the time may have dashcam footage of the van. Might be worth asking on any local Facebook groups.

Unbelievable. Why do such a thing? I mean, I understand why someone would steal your iphone, or push in front of you in a queue, or bib you for not moving fast enough in a traffic jam. They'd be vile arseholes for doing it, but at least it would make sense. But why hurt someone for no reason? For all that moron knows you've just been diagnosed with cancer, or just come from visiting a loved one in hospital.

I'm often woken at 2 or 3 in the morning by a cretin in one of those souped up cars that make a hideous screeching, exploding sound. It obviously amuses him to upset people. Again, no reason. Why modify your exhaust so it sounds like a firework display, and then drive through the neighbourhood waking everyone up? It simply gives him pleasure to hurt people. It's the worst thing about human nature. We all remember being children in the playground and seeing the sheer joy and delight on the face of other kids when someone was punched or thrown in a puddle or hit by the ball. Horrible.😟

I sometimes wonder if this kind of behaviour is made worse by overcrowding. There are so many people, all jammed on top of one another, that life has become cheap. We had a funeral for a neighbour a while ago, and driving behind the hearse to the cemetary was horrific. There were vans literally bibbing and trying to overtake. Just awful. Frankly, I think people are getting sick of one another. I live in the town my dad grew up in, and I have loads of old home movies from the 1980s (he was a keen amateur filmmaker). It's really striking just how quiet and empty the town seems compared to today. When people have space, and life moves at a slower pace, they tend to be calmer and more polite.

Street harassment is taken a lot more seriously now: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-sets-out-law-street-based-sexual-harassment

Get this reported, absolutely disgusting behavior to soak you and an offence and a public order offence possibly to shout something abusive at you too. Poor you. A van once slowed down beside me (when I was younger) and the guys thought it was hilarious to shout at me and ask me to give them a BJ, (sorry for course language) I recognized the company and called and politely asked if they had a van out working in the vicinity as I had a message for them, they replied yes and I calmly told them that in response to their pulling up alongside me and jeering at me would they pass on I'd rather eat horseshit that give either of them a BJ as per their request. The receptionist was horrified and my entire office of middle aged men applauded me, noone thought it was OTT and were supportive. There may be CCTV or ANPR, report this.