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I was sitting in front of my computer at 11:47 on this day, August 30 2008 when I heard a woman shouting from street level.

Hearing her shouts, I ran to the window and looked down.

I live 22 floors above street level, so wouldn’t be able to identify anyone involved, but what follows is a true and accurate account of what transpired.

The woman was struggling with a bike at the intersection of 汉口路 and 福州路 (Hankou rd and Fuzhou rd). She had hold of the bike, and was trying to hold onto it as a fat bald man (hereafter referred to as ‘fatty’) tried to take it off her.

They were in the bike lane. Fatty was trying to wrest the bike from her grip, and she was holding on, screaming at him loud enough for her voice to float in through my window to my ears.

They struggled for a few moments, when an older, thinner man (hereafter referred to as “skinny”) sprinted toward them southwards along 汉口路 and joined the fray.

Skinny took over from the woman, and eventually prized the bike free from fatty.

As he did, the woman kept screaming, and eventually started beating fatty about the head with her fists.

As Fatty lost his grip on the bike, he started hitting Skinny.

Skinny tried to defend himself, but was driven back. Skinny landed two scoring punches to Fatty, and he fell to the canvas.

Fatty ran through the crowd that had gathered to a car that had stopped on the north side of FuZhou Rd. He got into the passenger seat and it drove off.

As I write this, Skinny is waiting with the woman and a few onlookers, holding some tissues to a cut on his head, and to his nose.

This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as I witnessed it.