The person LOOKS like they're a Knomira harassing a Havenworlder and grabbing at their child. Until, suddenly, another being is grabbed and restrained who had been stalking the Havenworlder, and the person admits they acted in that way to keep themselves between the stalker and the Havenworlder, who had been trying to kidnap the Havenworlder's youngster. They apologize for the scare, they had only been trying to help. -- Anon Guest
Roughgrit Station had only recently been cleared for Havenworlders. They were warned in advance about this, and some standard security measures had yet to be fully installed.
Traveler Kirk had their infant Gib in a livepram, but thanks to a minor malfunction, had to open the access for small repairs and mop-up duties[1]. This necessitated an enclosed lounge for just such a need.
That was when Kirk noticed the Human following them. Their concern about that was confirmed with the breathless coo of, "Bay-bee!"
Humans had an intense desire to fondle anything cute, and Gab was particularly fragile. "Please, restraint," begged Kirk. "Child much breakable. Please no touching." They were torn between guarding their child and fending off a grabby Human. The third option, calling Security, necessitated using the comms and thus losing the capability of defending Gab.
"Aw dey so adowable," said the looming Human. "Wook at dey diddle tufties... I could cry."
"Please keeping toxic fluids at bay," warned Kirk, putting themself between the Human and the livepram. "You being frightening. Please. Backing away."
Security swarmed, at last, but they swarmed on an entirely different cogniscent also sharing the lounge. The Human backed up.
"I called Security the instant I noticed them. One of the outliers they hadn't rounded up yet. They try selling baby Havenworlders to exotic pet markets and I wasn't going to let that flakker get a chance." The Human made themself small once the safe distance was established. "Look after your baby. I'll keep watch."
Humans...
They had the weirdest ways of helping people.
[1] Because babies always necessitate mop-up duties.
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I suppose if they weren't capable of tackling the actual problem this was the next best thing x_x poor parent though, that's disconcerting at the best of times XD
Not fun, true.
I actually saw a video of something like this happening in a store. A woman was harassing another woman who had a very small child in her shopping cart. Suddenly the cops came in, but they grabbed the MAN who had been following both women.
The man, apparently, had been an addict who had come to this store twice before to try to grab small children out of parents' carts, and demanding money from parents to get the kids back. He'd escaped each time. According to NBC, he was finally caught because he had been following the two women from isle to isle, and had ended up in a corner area where there was no real way to get TO the door when the cops showed. So he ended up boxed in and caught.
The women became good friends after that.
I know the tactic of suddenly being a harassees long-lost friend and thus using social performance expectations to drive off the harasser.
I never heard about this one though. Wow.
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