Bra helps in rescue of Springs hiker stranded in Alps

The Rocky Mountain News ^ | 2008-06-24 | Bill Scanlon

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Stuck, lost and hobbled in the German Alps, a quick-thinking Colorado Springs woman hooked her bra to a mountainside supply line, which alerted rescuers to her whereabouts just as they were giving up the search.

"We're going to have a party for her every June 19, and give her some new bras," Elana Bruinsma, said Monday morning of her sister, Jessica Bruinsma, 24.

The white sports bra has become the talk of the Berchtesgaden area of Germany near the Austria border.

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And now that everyone's gotten sufficiently annoyed by certain recent Supreme Court decisions, here's some more light-hearted news.

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Could someone please ping the Upper Midwest slash outdoors ping list?

[TheThirdRuffian]

Some bras are more noticeable than others.

[Red Boots]

Does this mean if we see a bra hanging out on someone's clothesline, there's a damsel in distress inside the house?

To the rescue, boys!

A funny comment from the RMNS.

[Moose4]

Boy, imagine those guys working that supply line.

“Say, Hans?”

“Ja, Gunther?”

“Dis is yours, ja?”

“Nein. You know Helga’s is much bigger den dat.”

“Vell, either we need to call der police, or ve’re in a porno movie und didn’t know it.”

}:-)4

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For your ping list. I found this after reading the bear story.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Now someone needs to go and rescue all of these women.

[Mr. Brightside]

She could also use them to sling shot tiny rocks at the rescue planes.

[wilco200]

Is that the Obama Under-the-Bus Express in the background?

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[I still care]

After reading this, I thought of the scene in operation petticoat where the submariners sent the nurses bras to the surface, to prove they were Americans.

But what is a supply cable?

[SJackson]

If you’d like to be on or off this Upper Midwest/outdoors/rural list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[Dumpster Baby]

After reading this, I thought of the scene in operation petticoat where the submariners sent the nurses bras to the surface, to prove they were Americans.

My thoughts exactly - "The Japanese have nothing like this!"

LOL

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It rained hard the second night she was stuck on the crag, “so she’d taken off her clothes to let them dry,” Elana said.

Wow.