Mom Allegedly Attacks 81-Year-Old Who Called Her Out For Cutting Line

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Mom Reportedly Attacks Elderly Woman After Cutting In Line

Police are currently searching for a mother who allegedly grabbed an 81-year-old woman by the hair and dragged her to the ground after a verbal altercation outside of a movie theater on the Upper West Side in New York City.

The elderly woman told NBC New York that she was waiting outside of the 84th Street AMC theater to buy a ticket for the movie Dumbo, which is when a mom and her two children seemed to cut the line of patrons. Even though the woman didn’t know whether or not the rude maneuver was intentional, she made a point of speaking up about it.

“I went like this,” the woman said as she motioned with one finger to demonstrate how she touched one of the children. “Just the gentlest touch. I just went like that to her daughter.” The woman continues on to say that that’s all it took for the mother to become belligerent. “Well, she just opened up her mouth,” the woman said. “She became so violent. I was just, like, shocked.”

After seeing how angry she was, the older woman said she tried to apologize to the mom, but that only seemed to provoke her even further; Eventually, the younger woman resorted to physical violence. T he woman said she felt someone come behind her and grab her by the hair. “I just felt this dragging of my hair, and I felt myself go down and crash,” the woman told NBC New York. She allegedly fell backwards, hitting her head. She was taken to the hospital soon thereafter, where she was treated for dizziness, pain, and swelling, according to a police report obtained by Yahoo Lifestyle.

“They X-rayed the thing and they said, thank goodness, there was no bleeding,” the woman said. Doctors told her she was very lucky she didn’t sustain a concussion.