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" Imagine being wolf-whistled at by a group of builders every day for a month. It&amp;#039;d get embarrassing,\u00A0\u00A0annoying, and\u00A0a bit\u2026 just f*** off! For Poppy Smart, 23, it was enough to lodge a complaint of sexual harassment to the police \u2013 believed to be the first time wolf-whistling has been investigated as a potential sex crime. Poppy, a digital marketing coordinator from Worcester in the West Midlands, said she was subjected to comments from a group of men on a daily basis, from February, on her way to work.  &amp;quot;It got so bad, they&amp;#039;d actually come out of the building site at the time I walked down the road,&amp;quot; she told The Times.\u00A0&amp;quot;I often had my earphones in but I could still hear the whistling over it. They&amp;#039;d make comments too, but luckily I couldn&amp;#039;t hear them.&amp;quot;  On one occasion, one of the men blocked her path, leaving Poppy feeling intimidated. &amp;quot;I considered changing my route to work,&amp;quot; Poppy said. &amp;quot;But I thought, &amp;#039;Why should I do that?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Eventually, Poppy had enough and filmed the men on her mobile phone, which she then provided as evidence to the police. She also contacted the building company to raise her concerns.  &amp;quot;People say it&amp;#039;s only wolf-whistling, but women shouldn&amp;#039;t have to deal with it,&amp;quot; Poppy said. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t go up to someone and comment on their race to them, it&amp;#039;s the same as sexism \u2013 and it&amp;#039;s rife. I think more women should speak out about this behaviour \u2013 maybe it&amp;#039;ll make people think twice. Imagine hearing someone speaking this way to your sister, mother, wife or daughter?&amp;quot;  West Mercia Police investigated Poppy&amp;#039;s complaint, sending officers to speak to the building company&amp;#039;s boss and members of staff, but no further action was taken and Poppy was said to be happy that the men had been internally disciplined. However, a spokesperson at the company said in an\u00A0statement, &amp;quot;If police had bothered to look at the CCTV they&amp;#039;d have seen it wasn&amp;#039;t our guys. They weren&amp;#039;t even working on the day she claims she had the encounter on the pavement.&amp;quot; But Poppy thinks she took the right course of action. &amp;quot;I definitely think it&amp;#039;s still a big issue, and that a lot of women don&amp;#039;t bother to speak out about it because it&amp;#039;s such a common occurrence, we&amp;#039;ve almost learned to live with it.&amp;quot; But according to Sarah Green, acting director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, we shouldn&amp;#039;t have to. &amp;quot;Sexual harassment in the street is too often regarded as trivial, when the reality is that many women feel humiliated, insulted and sometimes intimidated by it,&amp;quot; she said on the issue. It comes down to everyday sexism \u2013 and, like Poppy, we need to realise it&amp;#039;s not something to be tolerated. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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