Melbourne, Aug 22 : A serial bottom-pincher got more than he bargained for when he targeted a group of ladies.

Joe Sohia - known by locals to have a 'very bad habit of pinching women's buttocks in public' - was battered to the ground when he targeted a woman in Buka, the capital of Bougainville.

According to PNG's Post Courier newspaper, the women retaliated by swinging their bags at him before knocking him to the ground with a flurry of punches.

"The man started throwing wild punches at the woman, who did not give up but kept punching back," the Daily Telegraph quoted the newspaper, as stating.

A bus driver who saw the fight said it was brief but drew a large audience before police broke it up.

"Men who harass women in public places should be expecting that kind of beating from women," he said.

The man who was floored had a 'very bad habit of pinching women's buttocks in public," he added.

ANI