"A lady who was sitting on the train near us decided enough was enough," the girls said. "She reached into her purse a little bit and moved her hand around as if she had a weapon. She's screaming at the girls to back up, and the girls yielded."
An old lady reaches into her purse and she is a VIGILANTE????
An unarmed one, at that.
Must have been the early 1990s, I was waiting for the subway at Harvard Square station to go back to the office one late morning. An old drunk was making fun of a blind panhandling "singing" "musician", and yadda, yadda, yadda, an old lady started rummaging in her purse, saying she had a gun.
A woman that wasn't chased away by the noise, er, "singing", moved the drunk away from the panhandler. "I don't want him shot, I just want him to go away" said the panhandler.