Only in modern America could so many normal human interactions lead to great expenses and cops and government and formal and elaborate reactions.
Until a few decades ago, everything was just handled by the people who were there.
In the America I grew up in, only a psychopath would poke a stranger with a pen. I still don’t regard it as a normal human interaction.
Side effect of the litigious society. Nobody wants to “handle” anything, because then they’ll get named in the lawsuit.