An 87-year-old woman fought off a home invader – then fed the pantsless intruder snacks while waiting for cops, according to local reports in Maine.
Marjorie Perkins was awakened around 2 a.m. on July 26 to a person standing above her bed.
“I woke up to see a male standing over me by my bed, telling me he was going to cut me,” Perkins told News Center Maine.
The retired teacher said she jumped out of bed and put on her shoes “real fast” so she was “ready to kick.”
“I thought to myself, ‘If he’s going to cut, I’m going to kick.’ So I jumped into my shoes,” she told the Times Record.
The intruder grabbed Perkins by the shoulders and shoved her against the wall. The intruder punched her in the forehead, causing a bruise.
Perkins said she picked up a chair for self-defense and “kept hitting him” with it. She said, “Thank God I had the chair between us. It would’ve been worse.”
The home intruder then retreated to the kitchen at the home in Brunswick, Maine.
The home invader told Perkins that he was “very hungry,” so she gave him peanut butter and crackers.
“I kept saying, ‘You need to get out. You need help,'” Perkins said. “He said he was awfully hungry and hadn’t had anything to eat for quite a while. And I…
