Samantha Lynn Frazier was strolling into a local Atlantic City, N.J., bar this past Saturday, when she heard two loud blasts. The 35-year-old woman suddenly felt a sharp pain on her left side. When the baffled woman grabbed her midsection and gazed down at her hands, she noticed that they were bloodied.

The stray bullets were not meant for the young woman; instead, the gunman was aiming for a man who was nearby. The intended victim escaped injury, miraculously, when one of the bullets bore through his down-filled jacket but managed to miss him entirely.

Frazier, though, was taken to a nearby hospital. The attending physicians told the Florida resident that the extra fatty layer deposited around her waist was actually her saving grace. "I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life," says Frazier.

Ironically, Frazier had been keying herself up to lose weight, but now she's had a change of heart, "I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet."

The gunman fled the scene and his whereabouts are unknown.