# @cnn on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvfyrqGuHcK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8148820-cnn-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-03T21:00:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CNN (@CNN) — https://gondola.cc/CNN

## Caption

An 87-year-old woman says she offered a young man who entered her home while she was sleeping a late-night snack to keep him busy until police arrived.

Marjorie Perkins told CNN she woke up in the early hours of July 26 to find a man standing “by my bed, no shirt on, and it was dark, and he said, ‘I’m going to cut you.’” Perkins said she jumped out of bed and picked up a chair, which she said she used as a shield.

The attack continued, Perkins said, until “he got tired of that,” at which point she said she followed the intruder, who wasn’t wearing shoes, pants, or a shirt, into the kitchen, while telling him to get out. The intruder then told Perkins that he was hungry.

The 87-year-old said she offered him a “box of peanut butter and honey crackers” and two tangerines, along with other snacks, citing her time as a teacher for her quick thinking.

“That was to keep him busy, what do you think? I taught school [for] 35 years,” Perkins said.

Perkins said she called 911 while he ate. When he finished, the suspect put on his pants and walked out the door but left his shoes, shirt, and knife behind, according to Perkins.

The intruder isn’t unknown to Perkins: She says she knows members of his family and that as a boy, he had mowed her lawn for cash.

Read more at the link in bio.

📷: News Center Maine/AP

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