If you thought a bra was to control your boobs or even enhance your cleavage, then you are wrong. A bra is womanly body armour, to be used in conjunctionn with the trusty handbag if attacked.
A [Russian] woman watching New Year's Eve fireworks from a picnic table found out her bra can do more than lift and shape: It also slowed a falling bullet.
The .45-caliber bullet hit Debbie Bingham, 46, after someone fired a gun into the air about 20 minutes before midnight. She still needed stitches, but the wound might have been much worse except for the bra strap, police spokesman George Kajtsa said.
Bingham, who was in town from Atlanta, said she is thankful for the undergarment, which she said was ''very cheap.''
''I'd love to have a couple more of those bras,'' she said.
Bingham said she was listening to music and enjoying the fireworks with her daughter and son when she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.
Then Solanda Bingham, 30, noticed blood seeping through her mother's white shirt, and they found the bullet lodged halfway into the gold-colored bra. The other half was barely breaking the skin, Bingham told WTSP-TV.
Kajtsa described the wound as a ''big scratch with bruising.''
Chicago Sun-Times
So the moral of the story is... always wear a bra. Especially a cheap one!
