During the first week of September, a 37-year-old woman in India defended herself from a would be gold chain snatching with karate moves. Apparently chain-snatching has plagued the country.
While out on a walk and making her way through the streets of Naranpura Ghanshyam, resident Jigna Vyas sensed a man behind her wearing a handkerchief across his face had targeted her for a chain-snatching. Just as she quickly removed her gold chain the man attacked. Failing to achieve his goal he grabbed her by the neck.
Ms. Vyas, however, is a karate student. She used self-defense moves as taught in class, overpowered her assailant, threw him to the ground, and thrashed him thoroughly. Onlookers, seeing she had everything under control, just continued to watch without helping.
As the assailant frantically made his escape from her, she watched him jump on the back of his accomplice’s motorcycle and peel out of the area. Thinking quickly she wrote down the license number and reported it to the police who are now tracking down the owner of the motorcycle.
Ms. Vyas told reporters that she recommends every woman take some form of self-defense class for her own protection.
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