There is a reason why we are taught not to stop by and engage with strangers because, well, they can be strange. A woman in Mumbai experienced this ‘strangeness’ recently and took to Twitter to share her experience.

She was left rattled and shocked when a 'random middle-aged uncle stopped me earlier tonight and tried to Google "HD porn" on my phone under the pretext of asking me to look up the building collapse in Dongri. Today.’ On Tuesday, owing to heavy rains an 100-year-old building collapsed in Dongri and the number of people who died in it is increasing by the day as many are still known to be trapped under it, the current toll stands at 14.

This is what she reportedly described her experience as in screenshots:

‘What happened was, I was walking on the road (a main road with cars and people and everything) on my way back to the hostel. An old uncle stopped me asking if I have internet on my phone and if I could look up the building collapse that happened earlier today,’ she wrote the in a text message the screenshot of which she shared.”

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‘I thought maybe his family friends live somewhere there and he wanted to check on updates, maybe the poor guy doesn't have a phone or his phone died or something,’ she continued.

‘So I Googled it and showed him an article about it. Uske baad he says ye exit karke wapas Google results dikhao na (after that, he says exit this and take me to the main Google results page). I was getting a little annoyed but I did so. He's like ye phone pe sab milta hai kya net pe (can you find everything online on this phone). I said yes.

‘He tried to use the voice command on my phone, it didn't work (because I've disabled it). I was feeling weird and said uncle duty pe jaana hai (uncle I have to go to work). He said 'ek minute

‘And this is where it gets super weird.

‘Then he said something which I heard as 'ispe HDphone dekh sakte hai kya?' ('can you watch HDphone on this'). I didn't get it. Then he tried to take my phone (I was still holding it) and started to type 'hdporn'. I was like WTF man,’ the Twitter user wrote.

This is when the woman briskly walked away and did not look back to see if she was being followed. According to her, the man was ‘at least 55-60.’

The tweet has since been deleted but the Mumbai police did seem to have act on this incident and tweeted back to her.

We have followed you. Request you to inbox your number. We will call you shortly to get details. — Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 17, 2019

This must truly have been a jarring experience for the woman and we hope she gets the help she needs from the Mumbai Police.