Sports Bra Saves A Life

A  24 year old Colorado woman saved her life by using her sports bra in an imaginative way. Jessica Bruinsma fell over the side of a cliff while hiking in the Bavarian Alps, it was only after three days that her tenacity and ingenuity led to her rescue from a remote mountain area in southern Germany.

When she fell on the 16th of June, she landed on a small overhang, where she was to remain for the next 70 or so hours, suffering from a dislocated shoulder and severe bruising. From the overhang she noticed a timber transit system, she attached her bra, which went down the slope and alerted a workman who contacted the police which led to a change in the area being searched.

Jessica was soon rescued, her sister Elana Bruinsma said "We're going to have a party for her every June 19, and give her some new bras."

Sports bra saves US hiker in German Alps
The Associated Press - 23 hours ago
BERLIN (AP) — An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern ...

Woman uses bra as SOS signal Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 22 Jun 2008 By Our Foreign Staff An American woman has been rescued from a German mountain after sending an signal for help using her bra. ...

Sport bra saves lost hiker
The Age, Australia - 22 Jun 2008
AN AMERICAN woman was picked up by helicopter from a German mountain after sending an SOS signal with her bra. The woman — missing for over three days ...

Woman saved by sports bra
cw2.com, CO - 5 hours ago
by Mat Garcia, News2 It happened when the hiker from Colorado Springs went for a walk in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. The emotional roller coaster for ...

Sports bra credited with saving hiker MyFox Tampa Bay, FL - 6 hours ago COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A hiker, lost in the wilderness, may very well owe her life to her sports bra. Jessica Bruinsma is from Colorado Springs. ...

Bra Leads Rescuers To US Hiker Lost, Stranded In German Alps AHN - 13 hours ago Berlin, Germany (AHN) - A Colorado hiker lost in southern Germany's Bavarian Alps for almost three days used her white bra to signal for help and it led ...

American Hiker Saved by Sports Bra
ShortNews.com, Germany - 14 hours ago
US hiker Jessica Bruinsma got lost in the Alps and was stranded for three days until she placed her sports bra on a cable used to move timber. ...