8. A man has X-ray with scissors coming out of his head. Photo: Europics
Think you're having a bad day? Check out Jonas Acevedo Monroy's X-ray, which shows a pair of scissors sticking out of his head. While at a local bar in Chihuahua
in Northwest Mexico, an aggressive man came in looking for trouble. The man tried to start a fight with Monroy and grew so aggressive he took the scissors he had
in his pocket and stabbed Monroy in the head. Thankfully he's okay and let's just say he'll have a great story to tell!
9. Cai Hanzhong, 32, was working at a construction site in the city of Xi'an in north-western China when the steel bar rammed into his head after it was somehow
dropped from the building above. Still conscious, Cai was rushed to hospital with the bar sticking out of his head where surgeons called the fire brigade to
blowtorch the bar in half so they could take an x-ray.Picture: EuroPics/CEN
10. X-ray showing a rod impaled in Ha Wei's head in Guangzhou, China. A Chinese man has survived after getting a long welding rod impaled through his head. At the
time of the accident Ha Wei was on a ladder welding a rain canopy. His cousin comments: 'He fell down from the ladder, he stayed on the ground for one or two
minutes and said he was fine'. But when Wei was turned over there was a long welding rod protruding from his head. He was rushed to hospital where doctors
undertook a five hour surgery to remove the 19cm long rod, which had penetrated 14cm into his head. Chief surgeon Wu Taihua said: 'The rod is only 2mm from the
vena and 5mm from the neck artery. If any of the veins were injured, the patient may die at the scene.' Doctor Wu added that the rod went through the patient's brain
and didn't stop until it hit the back wall of his skull. 'Usually the chance of survival is very low.He was very lucky.‘ China News/REX FEATURES
11. A chest x-ray shows the chainsaw that was embedded in James Valentine's neck and shoulder. Valentine, 21, was part of a crew pruning trees on Monday afternoon
when his saw suddenly kicked back and the blade sliced into him. His co-workers brought him down from the tree and he was taken to Allegheny General Hospital
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Picture: AP/Allegheny Health Network
12. A knife embedded in the skull of a 10 year old boy at
Camp Bastion in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The
knife was removed by surgeons and he was looked
after by medics of 208 (Liverpool) Field
Hospital.MoD/PA
13. Doctors in Yulin city, China were puzzled by a young girl who seemed to repeatedly excrete nails from her stomach. Doctors at Yulin Children's Hospital confined
the 18-month old girl in the hospital, but she continued to excrete nails day-by-day. A few days later a nurse told police that she had found a packet of more than 20
nails—identical to those the girl excreted—on the girl's bed. The girl's mother insisted to Xinhua that the nails weren't fed to her child. 'Who could be that cruel?'
she said. 'No one had any chance to feed her the objects.'Quirky China News/REX
14. A builder became impaled from the anus to his chest on a
standing bar after falling off an 8 foot high scaffolding
platform in Hefei, China. The man tripped and fell off the
platform, landing on the metal bar bottom, which penetrated
his body. His co-workers sawed the bar loose from the
ground and the man was rushed to hospital. He did recover
from his injuries.HAP/Quirky China News/REX
15. In another Chinese industrial accident, a thick steel bar fell from a great height and thrust directly into Jin Hongping's head. It entered from the back of his neck and
exited from the corner of his right eye. He was rushed to hospital where doctors had to call on the help of firefighters to cut through the bar. HAP/Quirky China
News/REX
16. Another Chinese horror X-ray from Taoyuan Town in Hunan Province. Zhang Xuecheng was on his way home when he was struck from a pair of fire tongs, which
penetrated the back of his skull and came out of his forehead. The tongs had been thrown by a man who was chasing a stray dog that had stolen a piece of bacon.
After the incident Zhang was rushed to hospital where doctors operated to remove the tongs. Chief surgeon Pu Yuejin said: 'The fire tongs were only a tiny space
away from the neck artery, which could have cost his life.' According to doctors Zhang is recovering in hospital and is now out of danger. HAP/Quirky China
News/REX
17. Doctors had to remove three long nails hammered into a man's head in Haifeng County, China. When the 69-year-old man was sent to hospital, x-rays revealed three
3 inch-long nails hammered into the top of his head. The man claimed to have hammered the nails himself and insisted that police weren't called, but doctors
believe the crime was perpetrated by someone else. Doctors had to carefully remove the nails and the man spent around three months recovering in hospital before
being discharged. He has made a full recovery without any lasting problems. HAP/Quirky China News/REX
18. A woman can finally breathe easily after doctors removed a bullet from her head after it had been there for a suspected 48 years. Zhao went to hospital in
Shenyang , China, recently due to chronic rhinitis. 'My nose was always having pus, but from 10 years ago, I had breathing difficulties and headaches, which made
me suffer a lot.' CAT scans revealed that there was a metal item in her nostril. Doctors used an endoscope to remove it and were shocked to discover that the
metallic object was a bullet. Zhao believes that she was shot 48 years ago. She says: 'It was in 1967 when I was only 14. I was walking on the footpath and suddenly
felt a sharp pain on my right temple. I thought I was hit by a pebble and there was blood.' At home her family simply cleaned and bandaged the wound and it
eventually closed up. Zhao says: 'I should thank the bullet that it didn't take my life 48 years ago, otherwise I wouldn't have my family and my life now.' HAP/Quirky
China News/REX
19. An X-ray of a bullet (conical object at centre left)
embedded in the chest of a patient.
SPL/BARCROFT
20. An X-ray of the abdomen of a patient that
has swallowed two forks, a ballpoint pen
and a toothbrush. The items are located in
the intestine SPL/BARCROFT
21. An X-ray of a nail (upper centre) lodged in bones of the index and middle fingers of an adult male, having penetrated through the skin SPL/BARCROFT
22. A historical X-ray of the foot of a Boer War (1899-1902) soldier, showing a gunshot wound. A Mauser bullet has become lodged between the metatarsal bones of the
big and second toes. The bullet has not broken any bones; but the end phalanges of the toes are deformed, perhaps from tight army boots and long marches. This
radiograph was made by the soldier positioning his foot above a photographic plate, while an open electric discharge tube emitted the X-rays SPL/BARCROFT
23. A coloured X-ray of a key (outlined in red, top right)
swallowed by a 7-year-old boy. SPL/BARCROFT
24. An X-ray of the foot of a patient who stood on a fork. SPL/BARCROFT
26. A victim's lacerated fingers- due to fight with a knife wielding attacker. SPL/BARCROFT
27. A coloured X-ray of objects swallowed and lodged in
the intestine of a patient, including a spoon and a
blade. SPL/BARCROFT
28. A coloured X-ray of the abdomen of a patient with dementia that has swallowed a razor (centre left) and razor blades (upper right). SPL/BARCROFT
29. A coloured X-ray of an object (safety pin) lodged in the oesophagus of a woman. SPL/BARCROFT
30. 19-month-old toddler, Olivia Smith, from New Boston, N.H., is expected to make a full recovery after she fell off a reclining chair onto the end of a colored pencil that
pierced her eye. Photo: Dr. Orbac/Boston Children's Hospital.
A New Hampshire toddler was in recovery after a freak fall causing a pencil to pierce her eye and become lodged in her brain. Olivia Smith, 20 months, was coloring
at her New Boston home when she lost her balance and jammed a colored pencil into her right eye. The impaled tot was brought to a local hospital and then flown
to Boston Children's Hospital, where X-rays showed more than four inches of the pencil's shaft stuck in her brain, from her right eye to the back of her skull.
Miraculously, it missed nearly every major artery and nerve along its path, according to Dr. Darren Orbach, a neurointerventional radiologist at the hospital who
treated the tot.
31. An X-ray shows a young Florida man who was accidentally shot in the head with a spear gun. Photo: Jackson Memorial Hospital.
A Florida teen underwent a miraculous recovery after he was accidentally shot in the head with a spear gun. Yasser Lopez, 16, was on a fishing trip with friends
when the spear gun they had brought along accidentally went off, shooting the 3-foot-spear through the teen's skull, according to Miami's WSVN 7 News. The spear
miraculously missed all the major blood vessels in Lopez’s brain.
32. A hospital patient was left red-faced after visiting an emergency room with a Buzz Lightyear toy stuck inside his bottom. Photo: St. Martin's
Press/PacificCoastNews./
This can't be what Buzz Lightyear meant by saying "To infinity and beyond." A frightening X-ray shows a doll of the "Toy Story" hero stuck inside a patient's
backside. The jaw-dropping image is among 100 strange X-ray shots to be published in a book called "Stuck Up."
33. Pat Marvin, 64, was using the saw in her home in Columbus, Ohio when she sawed off her hand. Photo: PacificCoastNews.
Grandma didn't get run over by a reindeer, but she did accidentally chop off her own hand using a power saw. Pat Marvin, 64, was using the saw in her home in
Columbus, Ohio when the accident happened. Doctors were able to reattach her sawn-off limb with an 8-hour surgery and she's already back to wiggling her
fingers. Marvin is expected to make a full recovery.
34. An Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled his eye socket with a pair of pruning shears, doctors said. Photo: University Medical Center.
An Arizona man was sure lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled his eye socket with a pair of pruning shears, doctors said. Leroy Luetscher, 86, was
gardening outside his Green Valley home when the horrifying accident took place. He dropped the shears and they landed blade side in the ground -- and when
Luetscher went to pick them up, he stumbled and fell face down onto the gardening tool's handle.
35. A Texas construction worker miraculously escaped death after a nail was fired into his brain. Photo: Paul Andrews/PacificCoastNews.
A Texas construction worker miraculously escaped death after a nail was fired into his brain. The 4-inch nail was accidentally fired deep into the man's skull. The
patient underwent surgery to remove the nail from his dominant lobe. "You make a wrong move or a millimeter away here or there, it can be a disastrous outcome,"
Dr. Rob Dickerman said.
36. Andrew Linn, whose head you see above, got impaled by a thick pipe after getting into a car accident. Photo: Courtesy of University Medical Center.
Talk about narrowly escaping death. Andrew Linn got impaled by a thick pipe after getting into a car accident. He hit a fence, causing part of it to come through his
windshield and then through his head. After seeing this x-ray, Linn knows he's lucky to be alive.
37. A Chinese man's stabbing headache ended this week when doctors removed a rusty 4-inch knife blade that had been lodged in his skull for four years. Photo:
Imaginechina via AP
A Chinese man's stabbing headache ended this week when doctors removed a rusty 4-inch knife blade that had been lodged in his skull for four years. Li Fuyan
said a robber had stabbed him on the right side of his jaw. For years, Li had suffered from severe headaches and had trouble breathing, but didn't know it was
because a knife blade was stuck inside his head, reported the Associated Press.
38. A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said they were apparently stuck there one by one.
Photo: AP.
In this frame taken from a TV Globo video, a person points at a X-ray of a 2-year-old boy showing needles inside his body in a hospital in Ibotirama, Northern Brazil.
A 2-year-old Brazilian boy had as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said they were apparently stuck there one by one.
39. On his way home from the hospital Prax Sanchez got quite a surprise. He coughed up a nail that doctors estimate had been lodged in his sinus for 30 years or
more. Photo: KOAA.
On his way home from the hospital, Prax Sanchez got quite a surprise. He coughed up a nail that doctors estimate it had been lodged in his sinus for 30 years or
more.
40. An unlucky Chinese man used a pair of small scissors as a toothpick which then slipped into his esophagus as he was laughing during conversation. Photo:
CEN/Europics.
An unlucky Chinese man used a pair of small scissors as a toothpick which then slipped into his esophagus as he was laughing during conversation. X-rays show
the 9cm-long and 4cm-wide scissors fully entered into the esophagus, with the sharp top angling up to the epiglottis. The 27-year-old from Putian was escorted by
his wife to the hospital where he underwent a 30-minute surgery to remove the scissors. Lin has since recovered and does not have much of a throat wound,
according to his doctor.
41. A New Mexico man's attempt to create a storybook marriage proposal didn't exactly go as planned, when his girlfriend swallowed the diamond engagement ring
he'd hidden in her milkshake. Photo: KrazyKaitlin.blog.
A New Mexico man's attempt to create a storybook marriage proposal didn't exactly go as planned, when his girlfriend swallowed the diamond engagement ring
he'd hidden in her milkshake. It took a trip to the hospital and the X-ray (above) for Kaitlin Whipple to believe her boyfriend, Reed Harris', tale of what happened.
After returning from the hospital, Harris had a second chance to propose. She said yes.
42. An X-ray of an 11-year-old Chinese schoolboy's skull shows a 16-inch arrow, which narrowly missed Liu Cheong's brain. Photo: WJXT-TV.
An X-ray of an 11-year-old Chinese schoolboy's skull shows a 16-inch arrow, which narrowly missed Liu Cheong's brain. Cheong, a sharpshooter, was practicing
with a friend, teachers at the school reportedly believe, when he was hit by the arrow. Doctors removed the arrow, but Cheong still faces the risk of infection, while
his teammate is being treated for shock.
43. This is an X-ray image of a chair leg lodged in Shafique el-Fahkri's left eye socket, taken after an attack outside a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. Photo:
Anonymous.
This is an X-ray image of a chair leg lodged in Shafique el-Fahkri's left eye socket, taken after an attack outside a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia. El-Fahkri fell to
the ground after the leg of a metal chair thrown by Liam Peart speared into his eye socket and down his neck following several fights near the club. The victim's
eyeball moved to the side and he spent a month in intensive care. While he has since gained 95 percent of his vision back, and the incident left him with a raspy
voice, Australia's AAP news agency said.
44. An X-ray of Nicholas Holderman, a 17-month-year-old Kentucky tot, shows how a set of car keys penetrated his brain after he fell on them. Photo: ABC.
An X-ray of Nicholas Holderman, a 17-month-year-old Kentucky tot, show how a set of car keys penetrated his brain after he fell on them. The keys miraculously
avoided damaging his eyesight and have since been surgically removed.
45. Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain. Photo:
AP.
Six nails were embedded in the skull of construction worker, Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain.
Five of the six nails, shown above in an X-ray from Providence Holy Cross Hospital, were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face after
the swelling went down.
46. Doctor Nikola shows a fork, which was removed from an Israeli woman who swallowed it while trying to catch a bug that flew in to her mouth. Photo: Levi/Reuters.
Doctor Nikola shows a fork, which was removed from an Israeli woman who swallowed it while trying to catch a bug that flew into her mouth. Doctors at Poriah
Hospital in Northern Israel performed emergency surgery and removed the fork.
47. George Chandler, a 60-year-old retired Kansas man has fully recovered after a friend accidentally fired a 2-1/2 inch nail into his head during a home improvement
project in June. Photo: Susan Pfannmuller/AP.
George Chandler, a 60-year-old retired Kansas man has fully recovered after a friend accidentally fired a 2-1/2 inch nail into his head during a home improvement
project. Doctors told Chandler the nail narrowly missed three vessels related to eyesight, speech and physical movement. An estimated 40,000 nail-gun injuries are
treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. each year.
48. An X-ray image of Chinese woman, Luo Cuifen, 29, released by Richland International Hospital, shows 23 needles in her body. Photo: AP
An X-ray image of Chinese woman, Luo Cuifen, 29, released by Richland International Hospital, shows 23 needles in her body. A hospital spokesman said that her
grandparents possibly embedded the needles under her skin to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place. In many parts of China, baby boys are still heavily
favored over girls because they are bound by tradition to support their parents in their old age, and because they carry on the family name.
49. An X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set on May 8,
2008. Photo: AP.
An X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set. The child
required emergency surgery and was hospitalized for two weeks.
50. A 37-year-old man had a knife embedded in his brain during an altercation in Wellington, New Zealand in 2003. Photo: Ross Setford/Getty.
A 37-year-old man had a knife embedded in his brain during an altercation in Wellington, New Zealand. Neurosurgeon Martin Hunn removed the knife after lengthy
surgery and the patient was in serious but stable condition. A man was been arrested and charged over the stabbing.
51. An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight-inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium. Photo: AP.
An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight-inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display at Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium.
52. This X-ray shows a 2-inch nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. Photo: AP.
This X-ray shows a 2-inch nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the
hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it.
The nail was removed in a surgery.
53. An X-ray showing a 6-1/2-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia in 2004. Photo: Rob Griffith/AP.
An X-ray showing a 6-1/2-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia. Skinner had an operation in May 2001, but
continued to suffer intense pain and it was only when she insisted on an x-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside.
54. The x-ray of Ron Hunt's skull shows an 18-inch-long drill bit that pierced Hunt's eye socket and went through his head, just nudging his brain. Photo: AP.
The x-ray of Ron Hunt's skull shows an 18-inch-long drill bit that pierced Hunt's eye socket and went through his head, just nudging his brain. Hunt, a Truckee,
Calif., construction worker, fell off a ladder Friday, Aug. 15, 2003, and landed on the drill he was using at a construction site.
55. An X-ray of the pelvis of New York firefighter Matt Long, who was crushed by a Bear Sterns charter bus in 2003. Photo: Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News.
An X-ray of the pelvis of New York firefighter Matt Long, who was crushed by a Bear Sterns charter bus in 2003. Long, who wasn't expected to be able to walk again,
ran the 2008 New York Marathon.
56. An x-ray shows a nail embedded in the brain of an Israeli wounded in a suicide bombing in 2002 in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. Photo: AP.
An x-ray shows a nail embedded in the brain of an Israeli wounded in a suicide bombing in 2002 in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. Palestinian
bombers pack screws and nails into their devices for deadly effect. The shrapnel in the bomb can cause brain damage if it enters the brain.
57. X-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a 5-inch knife was plunged into his head. Photo: Metropolitan Police/AP.
X-ray images show how a teenage boy cheated death when a 5-inch knife was plunged into his head. The 16-year-old and two other young men were injured when
they tried to stop a friend from being robbed at a bus stop. He was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still stuck in his forehead after the attack in Walworth,
South London in November 2007.
58. This X-ray shows a 2-inch metal pin that was shot out of a garden tiller and into the brain of Chris Clear, a 19-year-old from Penrose, Colo. Photo: The Gazette/AP.
A 2-inch metal pin was shot out of a garden tiller and into the brain of Chris Clear, a 19-year-old from Penrose, Colo. The X-ray was shot in late April after the freak
accident, which, despite a trip to the emergency room on the day that it happened, went undetected for 48 hours.
59. A dental office X-ray reveals a four-inch nail embedded in the skull of Patrick Lawler, 23, which was removed at Littleton Adventist Hospital in suburban Denver in
2005. Photo: AP.
A dental office X-ray reveals a four-inch nail embedded in the skull of Patrick Lawler, 23, which was removed at Littleton Adventist Hospital in suburban Denver in
2005. Lawler unknowingly shot himself with a nail gun while working at a ski resort and thought he was merely suffering a minor toothache and blurry vision as a
result. When painkillers and ice failed to stop the ache six days later, he went to a dental office where the nail was discovered.
60. This X-ray shows a 3-inch nail in the head of a Houston carpenter that missed half a dozen vital areas by an eighth of an inch. Photo: The New England Journal of
Medicine/AP.
This X-ray shows a 3-inch nail in the head of a Houston carpenter that missed half a dozen vital areas by an eighth of an inch.
61. This X-ray shows a nail lodged in Linda Archipolo's head. Photo: Anthony Casale/New York Daily News.
This X-ray shows a nail lodged in Linda Archipolo's head. Archipolo went to rehab for her brain injury after a three-inch nail, shot with a nail gun, accidentally went
through two walls and landed her skull while she was working at a Burger King in Massapequa in 1981.
62. Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April
19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was
removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (AP Photo/photo released by Providence Holy Cross Medical Center)
63. Police in Sydney, Australia, released this X-ray of the skull of Chen Liu, 27, who died after being shot in the head with a nail gun 34 times. Liu's bound body was
found in a river in November. The photo was released as part of a public plea for more information in the case. Liu is shown on the upper left in an undated photo.
64. X-Ray of a Suicide Bomber. Another hand grenade, this time in the stomach of a terrorist. Apparently he didn’t think his plan through very well though because he
had no way of actually detonating the grenade once it was in his stomach.
65. A mobile phone and a hands free kit are seen in the rectum on an X-ray of a 58 year old Sri Lankan prisoner, who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of
his cell. (Getty Images | Photo by AFP)
66. Cell phone in prisoners rectum. ‘ Can you hear me now? '
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