Can breast implants protect against bullets and booby traps?
Eileen Likness of Alberta, Canada, says her surgically enhanced breasts saved her life when her ex-boyfriend shot her.
“My implants took the brunt of the force,” she said in court Wednesday.
Fernando “Frank” Chora, charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault with a weapon, allegedly fired his 9mm handgun at Likness while she was seated in her car. Likness had just dropped off Chora after driving him for several hours, she said.
The bullet grazed her arm, entered her right breast, scratched her chest plate and exited her left breast, according to her testimony.
The projectile’s path through her body all but deflated her boosted breasts, she said.
“They were gone,” she said.
With her magnified bosom demolished, Likness said, she waited for her wounds to heal before going under the knife to have her breasts restored, reported the Toronto Sun.
“I had to wait some time,” she said, “but, yes, I had some put back in.”
The alleged incident occurred Jan. 2, 2006. After Likness was hit, she stumbled toward a nearby restaurant, where she was airlifted to a hospital by the Alberta Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, she said.
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