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Take the lost kid, if you're female you could go up to and comfort / ask what's wrong, but as a bloke, short of a kid about to walk into traffic I'd look to contact police that there's an unattended child. If I went to the child I'd fear kid is there whilst mum/dad ducked into loo / shop / friends and comes out just to see me with them and goes nuts at me.
That's not just a recent thing. 25 years ago I was working late and heard horns, brakes etc. Ran out and here's a three year old kid in pyjamas wandering on the main road. Took him inside and called the police, turned on every light in the place and sat him at a table in front of the window while I waited outside. It's s**t you have to do that.
One of my happiest memories is the two solo trips around outback northern Vietnam I did on small motorbikes, it was great having little bags of chips / bickies / lollies / ChocoPies and giving them to the grinning little kids who crowded round every time I stopped. It was just such a normal thing to do. Now I look back and think that for a third party, some foreigner in strange clothes speaking gibberish and handing out free lollies might just seem a trifle over 11 on the creepometer.