#fights off

Police said the elderly woman suffered minor injuries

An 80-year-old woman gave a robber a tough fight who was trying to steal her purse on Tuesday night outside her apartment in Upper East Side of Manhattan.

The incident captured on CCTV, shows the elderly woman is attacked by a man as soon as she enters her apartment building. The man who followed her to her building suddenly grabs her purse…

Gutsy Indian-origin store clerk fights off armed robber with bare hands

When we run into a convenience store to grab a drink or snack, we don’t often think of the risks these workers run every time the cash drawer opens, but Bhumika Patel of Keysville, Georgia was ready…and not with a gun of her own. When the seventeen-year-old would-be thief pulled a gun on her, she leapt into action using her bare hands first, then the cash drawer, and finished him off by chasing…