MA-Caver
03-14-2005, 07:13 AM
Ladies, first of all forgive me for posting if this is not the appropriate forum but I felt it was fitting. Though the woman this thread is about might not be a MA-ist she certianly has courage and inner strength that (I feel) is fitting to any MA-ist.
Mods if needed move this thread where appropriate. :asian:
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In this scary world it's heartening to find/read about courageous people. As in this example (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050314/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_shooting) of the woman who was taken hostage and calmly talked her way out and found a peaceful resolution. I bow to such courage & strength. :asian:
"She acted very cool and levelheaded. We don't normally see that in our profession," said Gwinnett County Police Officer Darren Moloney. "It was an absolutely best-case scenario that happened, a complete opposite of what you expected to happen. We were prepared for the worst and got the best."
The crime spree began when Nichols allegedly overpowered a courthouse deputy escorting him to his rape trial Friday and took the deputy's gun, then killed the presiding judge and court reporter. He also is accused of killing a deputy who tried to stop him outside the courthouse and a federal agent during his flight from authorities.
Smith said her ordeal began around 2 a.m. Saturday morning with Nichols sticking a gun in her side in the parking lot of her apartment when she returned from a store.
He tied her up and told her to sit in the bathroom while he took a shower. "He said, `I'm not going to hurt you if you just do what I say,'" she said. He told her: "I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt anybody else."
Choking back tears Sunday, she said she told Nichols that her husband died four years ago and if he hurt her, her little girl wouldn't have a mother or father. Smith's attorney, Josh Archer, said her husband died in her arms after being stabbed.
Mods if needed move this thread where appropriate. :asian:
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In this scary world it's heartening to find/read about courageous people. As in this example (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050314/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_shooting) of the woman who was taken hostage and calmly talked her way out and found a peaceful resolution. I bow to such courage & strength. :asian:
"She acted very cool and levelheaded. We don't normally see that in our profession," said Gwinnett County Police Officer Darren Moloney. "It was an absolutely best-case scenario that happened, a complete opposite of what you expected to happen. We were prepared for the worst and got the best."
The crime spree began when Nichols allegedly overpowered a courthouse deputy escorting him to his rape trial Friday and took the deputy's gun, then killed the presiding judge and court reporter. He also is accused of killing a deputy who tried to stop him outside the courthouse and a federal agent during his flight from authorities.
Smith said her ordeal began around 2 a.m. Saturday morning with Nichols sticking a gun in her side in the parking lot of her apartment when she returned from a store.
He tied her up and told her to sit in the bathroom while he took a shower. "He said, `I'm not going to hurt you if you just do what I say,'" she said. He told her: "I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt anybody else."
Choking back tears Sunday, she said she told Nichols that her husband died four years ago and if he hurt her, her little girl wouldn't have a mother or father. Smith's attorney, Josh Archer, said her husband died in her arms after being stabbed.