BBC journalist is sexually harassed during report on sexual harassment

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Liza Hearon
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LONDON -- BBC East Midlands Today reporter Sarah Teale certainly didn't need too go far to find sources for her story on sexual harassment on city streets.

She was filming her story on a street in Nottingham when her point was made for her.

"An online study showed a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, either jeered at or had obscenities shouted at them in the street. And a large proportion of them said they'd also been groped, or grabbed inappropriately in public," she says.

She pauses, and then, as if on cue:

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A man shouts at her. His language was bleeped out by the network.

"Yeah, like that!" she says.

She pointed out the irony of the situation on her Twitter account, even though she probably didn't have to.

Irony - reporting how 95% of women are victims of verbal harassment-and a man shouts sexual obscenities at me @bbcemt pic.twitter.com/qYzN40ZfNL— Sarah Teale (@SarahTeale) September 24, 2015

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