Priscilla Dang was matter-of-fact in recounting her decision to fight off two teenagers who allegedly accosted her, one of whom swatted her butt, as she was jogging along the Padden Parkway path.

The 23-year-old Vancouver woman has taken martial arts classes since she was 5, has three brothers and has always felt compelled to stand up for herself.

“I hate when men think they can do that stuff,” Dang said on Thursday. “There was no question.”

Standing a wiry 5 feet 4 inches tall, she said she works out almost every day in addition to her regular Wushu martial arts training in Clackamas, Ore., so she knew she could take them on.

“They messed with the wrong person,” she said.

The alleged butt-slapping turned confrontation started the afternoon of June 14 as Dang was jogging her usual 5-mile run on the path along Padden Parkway just east of Andresen Road. The two boys rode by on bikes, and one of them distracted her, smiling at her, as the second teenager rode up close, swatting her firmly on the buttocks, she said.