I have a guy friend who just started talking to a girl who was jumped by three guys in a parking lot, hit with a steel pipe, and she was able to fight them off. She's a black belt in karate. She told my friend that she walked away with a broken nose, but they didn't get her purse.

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And B) Well, since we're sharing....

I was once working at my computer in my ground-floor apartment in Tel Aviv. I got up to go to the kitchen, saw that the front door was wide open, and then my eye was drawn to my bedroom, where a man was going through my jewelry box. A reasonable person would have run through the open door, but as I am unreasonable, I started yelling at him. He started saying something about being in the wrong apartment (!), and headed for the door. A reasonable person would have let him go, but *I* grabbed his arm, with the clear, if nonsensical, intent of holding on to him until the police arrived (how, exactly, were they meant to know I was in need of their aid?). To what I believe to be my great good fortune, he shook off my puny hold (I am no Marie Conde), and ran out the door, taking with him a pair of earrings and a bracelet that were worthless to anyone but me -- but not before turning around to yell "Sorry!"

And I also once charged the police who were violently breaking up an entirely peaceful peace protest. I'm not entirely right in the head.

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