Security video shows the suspect, wearing flip-flops, running away with the woman's handbag after grabbing it off a table at a local tavern.
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She catches up to him, grabs him by the shoulders and tackles him to the ground.
She gets him in a headlock as the two wrestle in the parking lot before the woman grabs her bag back and even pulls off the man's shirt and one flip-flop.
She manages to keep the bag as the thief disentangles himself from the tackle. She even tossed his flip-flop back to him as he fled.
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The thief took off in his truck but was later arrested on a robbery charge.
The woman suffered cracked ribs, as well as cuts and bruises.
It wasn't the best way for her to end her birthday celebration at the bar.