I love stories like these.

Seems some perv in his thirties tried to grab 14-year-old Brittney Richardson, and she took her brown belt in karate and she whupped his sad, sorry ass.

Go Xena!

I mean Brittney!

"I turned and I hit him," she says.  "I just knocked this guy out."

She immediately ran away, and called police.

Her instructors couldn't be prouder.  "Brittney did exactly, step by step, what we teach," said Amanda Christensen.  "This fella found out you don't mess with her."

  "Karate is the best thing that's ever happened in my life," she says.  "I have to say that my training has been very effective."

Although Brittney will have a black belt in one year, she says in many respects she's a typical teenage girl.  "I'm the girl that's into boys, likes to talk on the phone, paints my nails," she says. 

Her would-be attacker has not yet been found.  He's described as a white man in his 30's, with bleached blonde hair, and blue eyes.

And two testicles that are probably retracted so far you can see them when he opens his mouth.

It's funny. I am an anti-war leftie, and that leads many people to conclude (quite incorrectly) that I oppose violence. I don't. Too Irish. I oppose oppression. So while I post against parents beating their children so hard as to leave marks for god's sake, I am highly in favour of children beating would-be rapists hard enough to leave permanent psychic scars. I don't do so out of any misguided belief that this will make the criminals better human beings, but out of a belief that if they get their asses handed to them enough times it will stop them from raping children. If only we could find something that would stop parents from assaulting them as well.

Societal behaviourism: it's a good thing.