Underwear can save your life
Yes, really. (H/T: My brother Eric.)
BERLIN - 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 Germany said Monday.
Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.
[...] Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma’s bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police.
Now that’s one smart cookie. I take my bra off to her.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
And NOW I can’t get the “Lumberjack song” from Monty Python out of my head!
Thank… You… Very… Much…
June 24th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Good as this story is, it’s your salute at the end that is the Icing on the Cake.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Well, it had to be said. The truth will out, and all that.