Ladies - you think you like that new bra?

[ashling]

Woman's Bra Saves Her From Bullet
From Associated Press
January 05, 2007 3:22 PM EST
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - One woman discovered on New Year's Eve that her bra could do more than lift and support when a falling bullet was halted by the bra strap on her left shoulder.

Debbie Bingham, 46, an Atlanta resident visiting family in St. Petersburg, said her gold bra slowed the falling bullet during the holiday celebrations.

Her injuries may have been much more severe had it not been for her bra strap, said George Kajtsa, spokesman for the St. Petersburg Police Department.

Bingham says she was outside with her daughter and son, ringing in the New Year and viewing the local fireworks display when she felt a sharp pain in her left shoulder at 11:40 p.m.

The bullet was halfway inside of Bingham's bra, and the other half barely breaking the skin, Bingham later told WTSP-TV.

Someone had fired a gun into the air and as the .45-caliber bullet fell back to earth, Bingham was struck. Kajtsa described the wound as a "big scratch with bruising."

Bingham was taken to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg where she was given five stitches. The bullet was lodged into the bra tap was only removed when doctors intervened and cut the bullet from the strap.

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As for Bingham, she said she is just thankful for her bra.

"It was a very cheap bra. It wasn't very expensive, and I'd love to have a couple more of those bras," she told WTSP.

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[flvegan]

1. I always wondered what happened to bullets fired into the air.

Seems like it happens a lot during celebrations, yet, you never seem to hear of folks getting "shot" as the bullet plummets back to earth.

[alarimer]

2. Myth Busters did a thing on this

It seems that most bullets lose most of their energy and are not very dangerous when falling to earth. Seems counterintuitive to me though.

[flvegan]

3. But doesn't it seem like something as heavy as a .45 bullet, sans casing

falling to earth would cause some damage? Even if superficial damage, like windshields.

[alarimer]

4. I don't remember the details actually

But it would seem so.

[billyskank]

5. If it landed on your head it would hurt like hell

maybe even crack your skull a little. Yeah, it might crack a windshield. But it has far less momentum than when it is fired - on the way down it will fall at its terminal velocity, the speed at which wind resistance (which increases with speed squared) balances gravity. It is far slower than a bullet straight out of a gun.

[flvegan]

6. Granted, not 2300 fps

but a chunk of metal still seems like it'd do some damage.

[billyskank]

7. For sure

you wouldn't want to be standing underneath it.

[azmouse]

8. In Phoenix a young girl was killed by a falling bullet

at midnight on New Year's a few years ago.
We now have Megan's Law that makes it illegal to fire a gun into the air inside city limits. Yet many idiots still do it every year.
My town of Glendale has detectors up in areas where gun fire is common. These detectors can pinpoint where the gun was fired from. Since they've done this gunfire inside city limits is sharply lower.