Tuesday, February 08, 2011
ToDaZeD Feel Good Story
Don’t Mess with Texans—or ladies of a certain age
The 76-year-old ex-Fort Worth [Former Texan Mary Thornberry] nurse spent more than a week keeping intruders out of her Cairo apartment as violent protests happened outside.
“I had a knife, a nice sharp knife so I would make jabbing motions to them and there were times ... that I would make unladylike comments,” Mary Thornberry said in a phone interview on ABC News’ “Nightline” Thursday.”
A friend of mine on the phone suggested that I boil a kettle of hot water and so, every so often, I would threaten with a kettle of hot water. ... I also had my walking cane and my rolling pin, OK ... so I tell everyone that’s my armory.”
Thornberry said the force of the crowd involved in the pro- and anti-President Hosni Mubarak demonstrations down her street seemed to burst into her building’s foyer.
“A lot of these hoodlums got to my floor and stayed the night there,” she said. “They tried to get to my apartment where I live. They made a lot noise, voices, and pounding on my door and incessant jabbing their fingers on the doorbell.”
...Thornberry, who used to live in Forth Worth, Texas, moved to Cairo in 1996. She received her graduate degree in Egyptian history.
Ginger Butler… has a fiancé in Cairo named Hisham.
She also has friends in Seattle and Olympia, and between them they started the series of events that led to Thornberry getting the help she needed.
...Mary and Hisham were connected by phone in Cairo. He went and got her out of the apartment and escorted her to safety.
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