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Top effort by topless heroine as building goes up in flames
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) ^ | 11th May 2010 | Nick Calacouras

Posted on 05/10/2010 3:32:46 PM PDT by naturalman1975

A WOMAN put the safety of her neighbours over her own modesty when she saved an apartment building from going up in flames - topless.

Fitness instructor Tash Bennett was sunbaking by the pool of the Alatai Apartments in Darwin city on Thursday afternoon when a nearby palm tree caught on fire.

"I was just lying there when some ash fell on top of me," she said. "I wasn't really paying attention because I was listening to my iPod."

Ms Bennett raced to reception for help before rushing back to the pool to use the fire hose. It was only after battling the blaze for five minutes that she looked down and realised that she was still topless from the sunbaking.

"I was pretty red faced on the day, having to hold myself while running to reception," she said."I was sunbaking. I wasn't exactly prepared." "But you've got to put out the fire before you deal with that."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...


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To: mlocher

Sydney, Australia.


21 posted on 05/10/2010 3:48:46 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: mlocher

Australia - and Darwin is right up the top in the hot part :)


22 posted on 05/10/2010 3:48:48 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: righttackle44

I believe the female of Hero is Heroine :)
And yes she was!!!!!! My father won the Carnegie Medal several years ago... A hero, too! GRHS


23 posted on 05/10/2010 3:50:57 PM PDT by halfright (My presidents picture is in the dictionary, next to the word, "rectum".)
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To: naturalman1975

I thought it was weird saying “sunbaking”, then realized it is Australian and probably a colloquialism.

Kudos to her. I don’t blame her for the “sunbaking” and you can’t get dressed in time to deal with a crisis. I’m sure many VICTIMS have to run out stark naked from a fire.


24 posted on 05/10/2010 3:52:05 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

25 posted on 05/10/2010 3:52:17 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: naturalman1975

“Fitness instructor Tash Bennett”

Well then it’s OK...


26 posted on 05/10/2010 3:54:44 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Mr. Jazzy

Not Sydney; opposite side of the continent.


27 posted on 05/10/2010 3:54:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: halfright

“Hero” is better. No need to sex-ize so many words. Especially now, when baggage of centuries often means “heroine” is nothing more than the head female of a story - even if she’s a simpering idiot. “Hero” never has that neutral connotation. I’ll take “hero”.


28 posted on 05/10/2010 3:57:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Squantos

LOL!


29 posted on 05/10/2010 3:58:45 PM PDT by Eaker (Pablo is very wily)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Dang it, some guys have all the luck ...


30 posted on 05/10/2010 3:59:31 PM PDT by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Sorry, its looks upside down from here.


31 posted on 05/10/2010 4:04:16 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: Sacajaweau

It was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, that she wore for the first time today.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-wUKmlbyDQ


32 posted on 05/10/2010 4:04:25 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Youth frequently stands ready to demand their inexperience be heard.)
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To: naturalman1975

If this had happened in Saudi Arabia the “morality police” would have pushed her back into the fire lest she cause men to sin by lusting for her!;-)


33 posted on 05/10/2010 4:08:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (VIVA LOS 1070)
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To: Viking2002
"Pictures?"

OK, but what is so interesting about a burning palm tree?


34 posted on 05/10/2010 4:09:03 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Hillbillary

Yeh...I walked out in my underwear....Big oops that day...never forgot...30 years already...


35 posted on 05/10/2010 4:09:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Sacajaweau
I know the feeling. I took my shirt off at an outside restaurant on a beach in Mexico once. I thought I had my bikini top on underneath....I was wrong.
36 posted on 05/10/2010 4:10:16 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Lightning usually. Palm trees are nearly perfect lightning rods.


37 posted on 05/10/2010 4:10:26 PM PDT by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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To: discostu

“Lightning usually. Palm trees are nearly perfect lightning rods.”

“Sunbaking” in a thunderstorm?


38 posted on 05/10/2010 4:15:15 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: righttackle44; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
I never thought I'd ever learn anything from a semi-nude woman.

You've been hanging around with the wrong semi-nude women.


39 posted on 05/10/2010 4:42:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I’ve seen days like that as a teenager, people would rather forget, that were funnier pissants in a hurricane.


40 posted on 05/10/2010 4:46:15 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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