00:00A mom was on the subway to New York when a teenager began harassing her.
00:04She warned him, back off, kid, you're messing with the wrong lady, he didn't listen.
00:09So, she showed him.
00:10The New York subway has an unsavory reputation.
00:13An intense situation caught on video is only one example of how the subway earned its bad
00:18reputation as a potentially unsafe place to be, especially alone.
00:23The cell phone footage captured the moment a woman, who was being harassed by a teen
00:27on the subway, decided to take matters into her own hands.
00:30In the angry New York subway clash, the tough female commuter refuses to back down while
00:36caught up in a verbal conflict with a young man.
00:38Although he probably thought she was no match for him, he was about to learn otherwise.
00:42He'd soon be sent away, sputtering like an imbecile and crying for his mama.
00:47The short clip was captured on the number two subway train in the Bronx headed to Gunhill
00:51Road Station, according to Daily Mail.
00:53An unnamed woman is seen in a face-off, arguing with what appears to be a male in his teens
00:59as other passengers on the subway look on.
01:01It's unknown what started the verbal dispute between the pair, but it becomes obvious that
01:06this woman has handled disrespectful kids before.
01:09She refuses to let the boy intimidate her, even when things turn physical.
01:13The male teen gets in the woman's face, but she remains firm as the two engage in a confrontation
01:18that escalates quickly.
01:20She stands with her hands in her pockets as she repeatedly tells him to spit, while he
01:24responds with what's up.
01:26The woman then asks, are you going to spit or not?
01:29Before telling him to go to school as she turns and grabs her purse.
01:33He is heard asking several times, what you want to do?
01:36And he's about to find out.
01:38Seconds later, the young man mumbles what appears to be, I'll knock you out on this train.
01:43The woman replies, go ahead, before tossing her bag back onto the seat as she challenges
01:48him to follow through on his threat.
01:50Standing face to face as the train approaches the station, she says, touch me.
01:54The teen then proceeds to shove the woman's right shoulder while telling her, you buggin'
01:59out, which proved to be his last mistake.
02:01The push prompts the woman, to pull out a can of what has been presumed to be pepper spray
02:06and unloads a stream of it into her aggressor's face.
02:09The teen tries to wipe his eyes with his shirt as he screams in pain and stumbles about the train.
02:14The other passengers watch and a few of them even laugh.
02:18As the video stops recording, the woman is heard shouting, get the effer off of me.
02:23The young man got that message loud and clear.
02:25The clip quickly went viral after being posted on Facebook with the caption,
02:30that's someone's mother.
02:31Kids don't have respect at all.
02:33It garnered tens of thousands of likes and shares and millions of views in just a few days
02:38with many applauding the woman's actions.
02:40She did not instigate, she warned, the kid was already threatening her.
02:44Learn the difference and stop enabling these kids to act like bullies while complaining about
02:49it in schools, one social media user advised.
02:52The NYPDs reviewed the footage and said they would investigate the video, although they did
02:57not have any record of the incident and it's not clear when the incident took place.
03:02In addition, according to the police, the spray used on the teen by the woman might not even
03:07be pepper spray.
03:08They add that it could possibly be a container of perfume for all they know, as NY Daily News
03:14reported.
03:15Whatever it was, it didn't feel good when it hit the punk's eyes.
03:18Hopefully, it's enough to make this boy and others like him who see the clip think twice
03:23about assuming they've found the perfect target in a weaker female.
