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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Samuel Osborne

Little boy has the best response to catcalling

A small boy leapt to the defence of a woman being catcalled by a stranger by telling him off.

Julia Price was on her morning run when a man, who she described as "well-dressed" and "on his lunch break from an office job" began catcalling her.

After she ignored him, he allegedly told her to "eff off, dumb b**ch".

"That was my trigger point," Ms Price wrote on Facebook. She ripped off her headphones and prepared to confront the man when a little boy walking alongside his mother and little sister told the man off for his rude behaviour.

"Hey," he said. "That is not nice to say to her and she didn't like you yelling at her.

"You shouldn't do that because she is a nice girl and I don't let anyone say mean things to people.

"She's a girl like my sister and I will protect her."

The man was supposedly immediately embarrassed and gathered his lunch to leave.

Ms Price wrote: "According to his mother, this is a typical day in the life of James.

"Thank you so much to the mothers and fathers who are raising the next generation to be brave and courageous, and to be little earth angels for all. 

"I am so touched."

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