This has to rate as one of the oddest surely:
Former footballer Paul Gascoigne "forcefully and sloppily" kissed a woman on the lips while drunk on a train, a court has heard.
The 52-year-old is accused of an "unpleasant" sex assault on the service from York to Newcastle in August 2018.
The ex-England star, who denies sexual assault by touching, told police he had "kissed a fat lass" to give her a "confidence boost", jurors were told.
How can a drunk old man kissing you without your permission going to give you a confidence boost?
And then there are men and women who want to help disabled people with asking if they need help:
Bronwyn Berg became so fed-up with people manhandling her without asking, she put spikes on her wheelchair. And she's not alone. With a spate of disabled people reporting unwanted touching some are taking action to stop it in its tracks.
You're minding your own business when - out of nowhere - a man you've never met puts his hands on your wheelchair. He starts to push you down the street and you have no control over where you're going.
This happened to Berg. "It was really terrifying," she says. Despite her screams "not a single person stopped to help".
"I thought: 'How is it that nobody is helping?' If I was able-bodied and a man had picked me up, would I have had a different experience?"
Berg, who has used a wheelchair since she acquired a brain injury five years ago, added metal spikes to the handles of her chair to make it harder for people to take control of her after this incident.
And I have heard many times about pregnant women who get complete strangers putting their hands on the stomach. Presumably to feel the baby moving. And from women of African descent whose hair is touched by strangers who do not ask for permission.
Why do people behave like this? What happened to manners?
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