This brave 72-year-old woman was captured on CCTV fighting off a bike thief in South Yorkshire, England.
CCTV footage shows a man in a hooded top inside Barnsley Antique Centre last Sunday (October 13) talking to the owners. He is then seen grabbing a bike from the shop and leaving, as an older woman attempts to stop him. Two shoppers are seen exiting the shop quickly after.
Further CCTV footage from outside Barnsley Antiques Centre shows the hooded man as he enters the shop. He is later shown leaving the shop with a bike, as an older woman attempts to wrestle the bike from him. The older woman and two shoppers are then seen arguing with the hooded man before he walks away.
The owner revealed to Newsflare that the man had attempted previously entered the shop, trying to sell them a £1,200 bicycle.
Luckily the shop owner recognized the bike as stolen from a notice posted by a local 13-year-old boy on the Facebook group Stolen Bikes Barnsley Area.
In the video, even after the bike was confiscated by Barnsley Antique Centre, the thief returns, leaving the shopowner’s mother to put up a fight.
Barnsley Antique Centre’s owner told Newsflare that his mother was left with cuts on both her hands.
The incident was reported to the police and the bike was eventually returned to its rightful owner, who later decided not to press charges.
The incident occurred last Sunday (October 13).
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