Police say woman fends off would-be attacker in South Boston

I don't know for certain, but I'd like to think that if a bunch of us had come upon the gropers on Marion Path the other day and issued a short beat down before we called the cops, that it might have made those two a-holes think twice about doing it again.

I was once in that situation a long, long time ago when we witnessed a purse snatching down by the old Arbuckles on Comm. by Harvard Ave. - I delivered a Darius Kasparaitis-quality hip check, and others then, er, "held" the perp until the BPD got there. I was a bit concerned that they were going to give us trouble of our own for roughing the guy up, but instead we got a "nice job, guys, we'll take it from here" and the one cop single-handedly, and in one motion, put this sucker into the wagon. I can still hear the sound that he made when he landed, and I have to believe that after the whole experience, he at least thought twice about doing it again.