Two bag-snatchers weren’t as quick to the punch as watchful vendors in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Tuesday morning.

The thieves spotted a woman walking alone at 3:30am and swooped in on a motorbike to grab her bag. Area food vendors spotted the men in the act, and knocked the 26-year-old snatcher off the back of the moto.

The driver got away, but the other crook suffered a serious bruising before police carted him to the hospital. RASMEI KAMPUCHEA