An 80-year-old German woman probably looked like an easy target to a 41-year-old bag thief, who snatched the purse from her bicycle basket. But he didn’t count on the grandma’s pedal power!
The elderly woman gave chase, pedaling hard in pursuit of the purse pinching cyclist. She may not have outcycled the thieving man, but she did manage to keep up and alert a passing driver of the crime. The Good Samaritan nabbed the culprit and held him until police arrived on the scene.
“The woman had the guts to say, ‘I’m not taking that’,” a police spokesman said.
Police retrieved the bag and returned it to its rightful owner. And it’s a good thing too after that effort. She certainly deserves her purse back, and a wholehearted apology from the thug to boot!
