The bullet, fired during a robbery, was heading straight for the woman's heart when it got lodged in her bra

Feb 9, 2015 15:10 GMT  ·  By

A young woman in Brazil claims that she managed to survive a robbery thanks to a bra that stopped a stray bullet dead in its track and kept it from plunging straight into her heart.

In fact, the woman goes on to argue that her bra did such a great job of stopping the bullet that the hit didn't even scratch her skin. On the contrary, she says that all she felt was a burning sensation and pain at the site of impact.

How the young woman got shot

The woman, identified as Ivete Medeiros, says that the robbery during which she came freakishly close to losing her life played out in the city of Belém in Brazil's Pará state.

The woman details that, on the day of the incident, she and her husband were doing some shopping at a local supermarket when they realized that something wasn't quite right. Thus, the couple say that they could not help but notice people running back and forth on the street outside the supermarket.

Rather than stay inside and wait for the police to handle the commotion, Ivete Medeiros and her husband decided to do some investigative work on their work. In a nutshell, they left the supermarket to try and figure out what was happening.

Almost as soon as she made it out into the street, the woman got hit by a stray bullet. She collapsed and had to be carried back inside the store. Meanwhile, her husband alerted authorities about the incident.

Her bra turned out to be a life saver

Not long after she was carried to safety, the woman started feeling somewhat better. She regained consciousness, and seeing how there wasn't any blood on her clothes, she first assumed that she had simply imagined being shot.

Moments later, however, she started feeling pain and a burning sensation right below her chest. She lifted her shirt to see what was wrong, and much to her surprise, she discovered a bullet lodged in the wiring of her bra, Daily Mail reports.

The woman is convinced that, but for her sturdy piece of lingerie, she would now be dead. This is because, by the looks of it, the bullet that got caught in her bra was heading straight for her heart.