"My Love Handles Saved My life" Says Shooting Victim
Superman stops bullets with his burly chest. Magneto catches them mid-air and hurls them back at you. But all this lady needs is her belly.
Samantha Lynn Frazier was vacationing in Atlantic City, New Jersey - her first mistake - when she was shot outside a bar at 1:30AM on Saturday.
So, how did the Florida resident survive? Military grade ballistic resistant skin-alloy called "loves handles," or belly fat to civilians.
Frazier said:
I'd been hollering how I want to lose weight... I don't want to lose weight anymore. I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet.
Once shot, Frazier passed out and when she woke up in the hospital, doctors told her that her extra belly fat likely saved her life.
Then Frazier uttered the phrase that will soon pop up on t-shirts everywhere - similar to the ones that read "baby doll" and "princess" - saying "My love handles saved my life."
Oh man! Do I have some smart-alecky lines I want to post! I won't. But I hardly think Frazier's words are a good reason to keep the belly fat.
I doubt you'll see police officers bulking up at doughnut shops to help fight crime - uh, you won't, right?
Via UPI.com.
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Created / Updated: March 1, 2010
Well, the bigger the target, the easier it is to hit. If she had been thinner, maybe the bullet would have missed her entirely. I'm surprised she didn't think of that. But then again, a lot of people will find any excuse possible to justify being fat.
ReplyI cheated death once when I almost drowned. I also have had two other "close calls".
I think we are kind of glossing over the greater message and looking at the supposed fat poaitive statements.
I KNOW that what she probably meant was "Whatever I thought was so important before is not as important as being alive".
Now certainly she can prolong that second lease on life by going forward with her original plan.
Good luck Samantha! Every sunrise will be a little brighter now!
Reply"I don't want to lose weight anymore. I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."
I don't frankly care how big this woman is or isn't. The impression she gives is not a positive one that endears me, and it is her own business. But she certainly did not intend to say that she gained some insight into what is important; not in that statement.
ReplyThere is a difference between what is said and what is implied, especially in the heat of passion.
You can't seriously be that focused on weight that nothing else matters.
I think I can be the expert on this one.
When I was a kid I was involved in a pool accident, and even though I didn't know how to swim somehow I managed to find the pool edge while underwater and pulled myself up and out.
Also my hometown was the site of a major plane crash that killed 80 people including 15 of our residents on the ground and I watched the plane fly over my house.
You can't do anything when you are dead. Be it hugging your mom or getting ripped abs.
ReplyThere was a Myth Busters episode about a guy that was fat enough to stop a bullet. The put about a yard or more of fat between buster and a gun, pulled the trigger and the bullet when through the fat, not slowing it at all. I don't think it's possible for any amount of fat to deflect a bullet, therefore saving your life. It's more of a matter of the bullet's trajectory not being in the way of any vital organs.
ReplyI saw this Myth Busters and they actually concluded that you would have to be 1500 or 1600 pounds to stop a bullet, and then pointed out that there is one guy in the world that is heavy enough ...
ReplyThis coming on the heels of the British guy whose blubber saved him from a stabbing. Alas, knife != bullet.
ReplyErmmm, okay so I can stop a bullet with my blubber, OR I can choose to die of a heart attack because I'm so fat—that's a pretty tough call!!!! Give me a break people!
ReplyEh, either of those are pretty tame compared to dying of cancer.
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