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[ADVICE] I witnessed harrasment of a woman at her work place

I need advice what to do in these situations. I walked into a bakery and very soon realised a man sitting there is stalking and harrasing one of the women workers. It was clear from his words he follows her and he was now sitting there just to bother her more. One of those creepy neighbourhood men. The harrased worker just smiled in discomfort and mostly avoided responding to him, just like the other worker. I have no idea how to help other women in these situations. I'm scared to react, bring myself in danger or make the situation worse for the harrassed person. We know police wont help. Telling him to fuck off is risky and probably not long term. WHAT CAN WE DO??

And the response:

As a customer?

  • First, quietly take a pic of him. Then go BIG. Loud and obvious. Pull out your phone, wave it around, point at him and take video while calling him out loudly as a creep - accuse him of a made up past action: "Hey Creep, what's your name? You're the creep that was creeping on my sister yesterday! That was you! You're a creep!" Then tell everyone what he was doing to your sister, like: "You were staring at her and you ran after her and tried to grab her ass! You scared her! I'm gonna call 911! Let's have the cops deal with this ass grabber creep!"

If you start out loud and shocking, holding your phone out and waving it around a few times, he won't even be able to identify you later. Fear makes people confused. He will be shocked and probably run.

Then ask the management to have him refused service in the future, as you notice he was creeping on an employee, and he tried to grab your sister. Don't feel bad about lying about him! He's a creep, he deserves it. (Don't do a false police report, tho.)