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In an explicable fit of service journalism, we'd like to take a minute to discuss the always pertinent issue of ass-kicking. More specifically, we'd like you to see this inspiring video, in which a woman fights off a purse-snatcher (who, as a result, might never walk again). It is, in a word, awesome.

While we're not 100% certain of the video's source or authenticity, our crack-addled cousins believe it to be from an in-house security camera at a Tokyo publishing company. Whatever the story is, any New Yorker carrying a purse should probably memorize every frame of the footage. For safety's sake, of course.

Tokyo Girl Snaps Purse Snatcher's Neck? [Sploid]
Video available here.