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 ...
Sydney, Australia.
Australia - and Darwin is right up the top in the hot part :)
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
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.
“Fitness instructor Tash Bennett”
Well then it’s OK...
Not Sydney; opposite side of the continent.
“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”.
LOL!
Dang it, some guys have all the luck ...
Sorry, its looks upside down from here.
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
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!;-)
Yeh...I walked out in my underwear....Big oops that day...never forgot...30 years already...
Lightning usually. Palm trees are nearly perfect lightning rods.
“Lightning usually. Palm trees are nearly perfect lightning rods.”
“Sunbaking” in a thunderstorm?
You've been hanging around with the wrong semi-nude women.
I’ve seen days like that as a teenager, people would rather forget, that were funnier pissants in a hurricane.
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