This story could only happen since the advent of Bicycle Culture 2.0.

Last night, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was riding his bike home, heard a cry for help from a damsel in distress, hopped off his bike and saved said damsel from a pack of "feral girls."

The damsel, Franny Armstrong, happens to be the director of the recent film The Age of Stupid, a dystopic look at the possible results of our non-action on climate change. Armstrong, reports The Guardian, was walking through the northern London neighborhood of Camden, texting on her phone, when a group of young girls brandishing at least one iron bar pushed her up against a parked car.

That's when the Mayor happened to be riding by. Hearing Armstrong's cry for help, he got off his bike to ask the group of girls what was going on. Armstrong relates that at first nothing happened, but when she herself cried out in surprise upon recognizing the Mayor, the girls ran off.

As the Guardian puts it: