Batgirl security guards accused of intimidating and ‘accosting’ Glasgow locals
dailyrecord.co.ukBatgirl production crew have been slated after locals told of heavy-handed bouncers on the set on their doorstep. They claim they have been “accosted” by security guards while trying to get to their own homes.
The blockbuster has been shooting for a month, including in St Andrews Street in Glasgow’s Merchant City. Locals were told by American Night Productions to expect disruption and were even offered earplugs to block out any noise.But some residents have been left up in arms over the impact the production has had on their lives.They claim guards have grabbed and intimidated them.There have also been complains of noisy explosions and blinding set lights into the early hours.Care worker Paul Smith, 50, said: “There were hundreds of people directly outside my tenement every night. “I’d wake up and my whole house would be lit up by massive strobes like there was a UFO outside and the noise was horrific. “But it got totally out of hand when residents were accosted in the street.”Paul says he left his home on to go shopping and returned in late afternoon.He said: “The road was blocked off to stop traffic but there wasn’t anything to block the pavement."As I was walking along to reach my home, I could hear someone shouting behind me.“Then I felt my right arm being tugged at.
It was a young female security guard saying I couldn’t go down there.“I said I lived here and kept walking and she followed, shouting."I was directly outside my close door when another female security guard put hands on me.“She apologised for that but the other worker didn’t.
I don’t expect to walk down my own street and have hands put on me.“All the crew were looking at me as if I was in the wrong.
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