go, grandma!

She fought back and he ran away but 83-year old Elsie Barretto would still like to meet the man who tried to mug her:

"If you people find him do me a favor please and get him to me. He said 'OK, why?' So I can ask him why, why you did that to me? I did not do nothing to you why did you do this to me? And if he don't talk, you know whast I'm going to do? I'm going to punch him in right in the face and I'm gonna break his mouth and break his nose. To teach him a lesson," she said.

Police are asking the public for tips to help find him...before Elsie does.