Glad you caught him, over here if you had so much as touched him you would probably been charged with assult on a child.
I remember being in my Dads car years ago on the Motorway, we could see some kids standing on a bridge, as we got closer you could see them hanging something over the edge ready to drop.....there wasn't enough time to move (80mph) it went under the front of the car and burst the tyre.....it was a brick in a black bag!!! Lucky escape.