Over-protective of friends younger than you?

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I wonder if its just me, but if you have a friend/s under your age, if somone mess's with them, what do you do? Somone once stole my 9-year olds new scooter, so i chased them down for three miles and got it back. Anyone else like this?

Nope, I have no friends that are younger than me.

No, I've never had that problem with friends. However, I can be a little over-protective of my ten-year-old cousins. They're in a not-so-nice part of town and it's my duty as their older cousin to protect them. Their older brother did the same for me when I was little, too. He even beat up a kid for me when I was seven!

Yeah i have done similar things.

i find if i have friends who are younger than me who need my help i'll be there no matter what i'm doing! i think it's just that i don't want them to feel as sh*t as i did at that age thus i protect them wear i can!

i have a tendancy to want to stand up for small children, especially to their parents

I only protect my younger friends when I really need to, or when something makes them feel unconfortable. I have a 12 year old friend who's in eigth grade, and her sister is 13 years old in 9th. The 12 year old said she felt uncomfortable when a guy in gym was trying to show off his risque movements, so I attempted to tell him off, even though what he did wasn't bothering me. I pretended that it bothered me too, because I really didn't want my friend or the seventh graders to be offended by him. But he told me "if it bothers you, maybe you just shouldn't look. This kind of dancing defines me. The seventh graders like seeing it." so i let him be, and told my friend to ignore him.

i can otherwise trust my 2 younger friends; they're obviously very bright, but they're often immature (they sure love to argue unreasonably about anything that goes against their religion). Yet i usually treat them like 15 year olds. I don't like being harsh on them, for they've been discriminated by many envious people, due to their young ages.