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TORONTO — This purse snatcher had planned out his ambush attack.

But what he didn’t plan for was his chosen victim choosing not to be one.

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The 50-year-old woman decided she was not going to let him victimize her. Dramatic video released by Toronto Police shows the woman holding on to her handbag as a man wrestles her for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXTvucTIfQ&feature=youtu.be

The brazen attack took place along Bay St. at College St. — a normally safe area — last Friday around 6:30 p.m. The woman was ambushed by a man who had followed her into a parking garage. He snuck up behind her and sprayed her in the “face with a substance,” then grabbed her purse.

“But she would not let go,” said a person who was on the scene. “She was one tough person.”

That’s when, Toronto Police say, the thug “began to assault her but was stopped by a passersby.”

That passerby is a hero. She’s a brave woman. And the attacker is, well, you pick your own word to describe him.