From October 1st, But You Go Gal!!!

My first thought would be not to resist someone who was intent on getting my bag but then I never carry much cash on me - not enough to risk getting my head kicked in to protect. However I can see why she fought so hard and I really admire her grit.

This comment is interesting. I doubt that I could be so clear headed.

Note the secret to her success: she always kept thinking, she never let fear take over. She kept watching the attacker's foot and moving her head so she wouldn't be kicked. When she saw an opportunity to grab the attacker's hair, she did that. Good for her!
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Something that would help me besides stronger than average arms...I always have a ridiculous number of books in all my handbags and backpacks. A good swing with twenty pounds of solid book weight, I could knock somebody out cold. Of course the way things are nowadays they would counter sue...yes, they were trying to grab my bag but I didn't have to use excessive force:rolleyes:
 

The problem with bag snatchers is they usually take you unawares and from behind..it rarely gives you a chance to hit them with your bag or even to fight back, so this almost 80 year old put up a tremendous fight to hold onto all the money she had, and was very lucky indeed not to come out of badly injured.

People do always say let it go...it's not worth being injured for...but in actual fact if it's all you have it's very difficult not to try and hold on tight.

I have seen a bag snatch twice...once in Spain 2 Huge and I mean they must have been 6'8''..non spanish scumbags leapt on a woman from behind, twisted her arm up her back so swiftly and harshly it broke her arm and they ran off with the bag..... In seconds they'd got her bag and had broken her arm...and I mean SECONDS!! I watched this from yards away...it was horrible!!


Another time in Cyprus I saw a bag snatch in a supermarket car park as a tourist got in her car...She'd just climbed into the seat after putting her shopping in the boot with her bag strapped across her body, and a guy made a snatch for her bag and because it was strapped across her body and over on the other side from the door he pulled her clean out of the car..and she was a big strapping young woman , at least 5.10...and he was hauling her across the ground trying to get the bag from her, ..she put up a hellava fight got up and punched him full in the face, and other men were standing around watching this on the other side of the car park and instead of going to her aid..they were shouting ..let it go..let it go!! It's not worth your life..!!:mad: Again all of this took probably 2 or 3 minutes ..but she held onto her bag, and the attacker ran off with a bloody nose...she was very very shaken, and I saw her a couple of days later and she was still in shock...

I do think the shock of what happened might set in with this old lady suddenly with a bang in a few days when all the media attention has died down. I hope she has family to take care of her! .
 
Once again these stories rarely turn out so well - they only print the ones with happy endings. She's lucky that truck full of people pulled up.

Money isn't worth fighting for unless you know how to fight.
 
Yeah -- when my mother and I went to Rome back in the 70s, the powers that be warned us not to carry a purse across our bodies because purse snatchers were going along on scooters close to the curb, grabbing purses and those who didn't or couldn't let go were sometimes dragged into oncoming traffic. SO, we took the advice and left everything we couldn't afford to lose in the hotel safe, and did NOT carry the purse across our bodies.

Sure would be nice to be able to go out without having to worry about this kind of stuff!
 
@fureverywhere, great story. I think these kind of happening occur a great deal more than we think. But, stories of human courage or unselfish actions just don't seem to sell as well as stories of scandle, terror, and keeping up with their favorite celebrity. What about our society is in need of such?
 

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