It is a very bad idea to enrage a professional MMA fighter.
Someone clearly didn’t tell this guy when he decided he wanted to a complete creep and pervert by flashing himself to three women. Unbeknownst to him is that he one of those women could deliver some much needed justice his way.
Brazilian MMA fighter Maria Ribeiro was leaving home with her sister-in-law and a friend to buy groceries on a local market on Sunday when a man exposed himself to them on the street.
“I left the house and was about to enter the car, (and) this guy on a bicycle exposed himself,” Ribeiro told MMA Fighting. “A million things crossed my mind in 10 seconds. We had three kids playing in the front yard all the time; my brother goes to work, and there’s only women and 3- and 4-year-old kids at home every day. Imagine what happens if this guy shows up?”
Ribeiro and the two women would jump in a car and chase the man for several blocks before they finally caught up to him.
“I jumped out of the car and started running barefoot after him,” she said. “He started screaming that he was innocent, that he hadn’t done anything, that he was trying to take a piece of meat from his shorts. I slapped him, punched him, took him down. My friends held me when he was bloodied on the floor, so we called the police and he was arrested.”
“It could have been a child, a teenager, but thanks to God [he encountered] me. I know how to defend myself very well and while I am standing I will defend women from vagabonds like that. I wouldn’t feel at peace with myself if I didn’t try to get him.”
“I got so many messages from women in my social media, and it feels great to know that this idiot didn’t get away with it.”
The man gave a statement to the police on Sunday and would actually be released that same day.
Ribeiro said she again took matters into her hands when she found out where he lived and spoke to neighbors who described him as a “weird” person.
“That pissed me off,” Ribeiro said. “We see the world we live today and how many cases of rape going on. We know that happens every day, so I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I hadn’t gone after him. He probably saw three women and thought they were helpless.”
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