Jude walked down the street, humming Rhapsody in Blue. It was a perfectly well-lit, busy thoroughfare, which is why what happened next surprised her.
"Oww wooo!" a man's voice mock-howled. "Look at the yiffy little street b***h."
Jude ignored them. Stupid men. She wished hangovers on all of them.
The men continued by clustering around her in a half circle, grabbing their crotches and humping light poles. "Rot in hell you damn freak!" "Yeah, your kind are all disgusting, you'd **censor** anything that moved." "We should kill you right now!" One raised a two by four.
A furry eyebrow raised. Her hands went to her badge and gun. "I could say the same about men. You're under arrest, all of you, for assault, threatening a police officer, and suspicion of murder. Make it difficult and I swear there will be more. Some of you are looking at drunk and disorderly. I know some of you have a pharmacy in your back pocket. Let's go."
Jude radioed to the police department and grinned in relief when a familiar police-painted van arrived on the scene. "Take care of them Mac."
The human driver and officers rounded them up, and Jude continued the walk back to the lab.
"Anyone home?"