Maine woman, 87, fought off invader who came to ‘cut her’ – then fed him peanut butter and honey crackers
An elderly retired teacher in Maine fought off a home invader, and then fed him snacks in her kitchen. 87-year-old Marjorie Perkins later called police, local reports claim.Marjorie was asleep in her bedroom at her Brunswick house when a man entered her home last week. She woke up at around 2 am to find a person looming above her. “I woke up to see a male standing over me by my bed, telling me he was going to cut me,” Marjorie told News Center Maine. She jumped out of her bed and put on her shoes, trying to decide how she would defend herself. “I thought to myself, ‘If he’s going to cut, I’m going to kick.’ So I jumped into my shoes,” Marjorie, who lives alone, told the Times Record. The teen then stopped fighting and walked into Marjorie’s kitchen, although she asked him to leave the house immediately. “He said he was awfully hungry and hadn’t had anything to eat for quite a while,” Marjorie said. “And I said, ‘Well, here’s a box of peanut butter and honey crackers. You can have that