'You tidy babe': Woman inundated with 'sexually harassing' messages on flight
A woman has been bombarded by a series of horrific messages while on board a flight.
Jessica Van Meir, from Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, shared photos of a series of messages she received via Virgin Atlantic’s in-flight messaging system on Sunday.
One passenger called “Big D*** Swinger” sent her two winking emotes.
Another called her a “tidy babe”.
“Welcome to hell,” a passenger called “Dirty Mike” wrote to her.
Ms Van Meir shared the messages on Twitter.
She added the airline’s staff were helpful and dealt with the “sexually harassing messages” swiftly.
“After the flight attendants spoke with the guys, I walked through the aisle and took a picture of them,” she tweeted.
“Afterwards, a young guy came up to me and said he heard about the chat between me and the guys, and wanted to apologise on their behalf.”
The woman was told the group were on a rugby trip and the man apologising her was “one of the leaders”.
“He said the guys had been drinking and he’d talk to them, was sorry and hoped we could leave it at that,” Ms Van Meir tweeted.
“What matters to me is not going after these guys, but making sure they understand why it was harmful.”
People called the messages “gross”.
“Sorry you experienced that,” one woman tweeted.
One man added he was glad she “spoke out” about sexual harassment because “many have not”.
Another man shared the images tweeting men who sexually harass women need to “cut the crap”.
“Fellas, do better. Stop arguing with women when they say ‘men are trash’ when this is what we put them through daily,” he said.
Virgin Atlantic apologised for Ms Van Meir’s experience deeming the behaviour “unacceptable”.
“We were extremely concerned to hear of the incident reported on board one of our flights and are investigating as a matter of urgency,” the airline tweeted.
“We want all of our customers to have the best possible experience when they fly with us and have zero tolerance for any disruptive or inappropriate behaviour.”
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