By Grace Murano
*WARNING!! GRAPHIC IMAGE FOLLOWS*
All these stories are about miraculous survival from death through serious stabbings that normally would cause catastrophic results. Be informed that the picture that follows each article is quite graphic and viewer discretion is advised.
Zhang Bin, a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed in the head
with a large sword, has miraculously survived. The teenager had invited school
friends to his house, but one guest brought the dangerous weapon. Measuring
50cm, it's not known exactly how the sword penetrated 5cm deep into Zhang's
forehead. However, he was lucky to be alive after doctors at a local hospital
refused to operate – citing inexperience. ‘Three classmates came to visit me at
home and one of them brought a sword. He stood 7-9 feet away from me,'
explained Zhang as he recovered in bed. ‘I don't know how the sword could fly
to me and stab into my head. ‘I felt sharp pains and a large amount of blood
streamed down.' After being turned away by local doctors, the boy was then
faced with a four-hour drive to the nearest hospital in Changsha where surgeons delicately removed
the object.
2. The woman who was stabbed with 15cm knife and didn't
notice
This mugging victim had a six inch knife plunged deep into
her back - and she didn't even feel it. The shocking picture shows the blade
sticking out just above Julia Popova's shoulders and blood pouring from the
wound. Incredibly the 22-year-old, who was knifed by a mugger on her way home
from work, failed to notice the appalling injury and managed to calmly stroll
to safety. The office worker had grappled with her attacker when he snatched
her handbag as she walked to her parents' house in the Russian capital Moscow. But she was so
shocked by the ordeal she didn't know that the thug had buried a kitchen knife
in her neck just fractions of an inch from her spinal cord. When she got home her horrified parents rushed her to hospital where surgeons
managed to remove the blade without damaging Julia's spine. One medic said:
"Shock had kicked in and her body prevented her from feeling any pain. She
simply walked home without feeling the knife in her back."
3. The soldier who survived a stab-wound to head
A soldier survived being knifed in the forehead by an
insurgent. Doctors estimate that at least four inches of the knife was plunged
into his head. The attack occurred at a cordoned-off blast site. What saved him
was medical know-how, great logistics and quite a lot of teamwork.
4. The duck who survived a stabbing attack in a park
A female mallard found stabbed in the back in a city park
was recovering after being treated at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care
Center. Center officials
nicknamed the duck "Lucky," and offered a $1,000 reward for
information about the stabbing. The mallard was spotted in Huntington Beach
Central Park near the Breakfast in the Park restaurant with a large pocketknife
stuck in her upper-right back. The mallard was taken to an emergency animal clinic, where the blade was
removed and the wound treated for infection. Center veterinarians noticed the
blade came within a centimeter on either side of vital organs, prompting them
to name the duck "Lucky." Huntington
Beach police and California Department of Fish and
Game officers are investigating the incident. Federal and state laws protect
birds throughout the county, with punishments including steep fines and jail
time. Volunteers at the center suspect the stabbing might have been the work of
a teenager or child, but say they want to confirm why the duck was injured and
seek the appropriate penalty. The duck, a juvenile with very limited flying
ability, was probably easier to target and catch.
5. The teenager who survived stabbing himself in the head
with a pair of scissors
A 19-year old man from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has survived after stabbing
himself in the head with a pair of scissors. The man, Mark Makarenkov, was
having an argument with his girlfriend and after she left, he suddenly grabbed
the scissors and stabbed himself in the temple. Makarenkov's mother called for
an ambulance and he was taken to hospital. The surgeons carried out an
operation to remove the scissors which was embedded 5 centimeters into his skull,
but luckily did not damage his brain or eye. After learning of the brutal incident, his girlfriend rushed to the hospital
and begged for forgiveness, with reasons undisclosed.
6. The teenager who survived a kitchen knife attack
This harrowing picture shows an x-ray of a 15-year-old boy's
skull after a five inch knife was plunged into his head. Amazingly the teenager
survived the stabbing and ten months on from the attack has enrolled in
college. The boy and two other youngsters were attacked when they tried to stop
a friend being robbed at a bus stop in London.
The muggers used a kitchen knife to stab one boy in the forehead, another twice
in the back and a third in the shoulder. He survived because he was rushed to
hospital with the knife still sticking out of his head and doctors managed to
operate in time. Surgeons said if anyone had tried to take it out he would have
died.
7. The man who survived having a sword being stabbed to his
eye socket
A 23-year-old man has survived an operation after he was
thrust into his left orbit with a sword. Bui Ngoc Tuan, from the central province of Thanh Hoa,
had a row with two cab drivers over the taxi fares after they had taken him
together with 10 other people back to their hotel in Dong
Hoi City
of the central province
of Quang Binh. The ten
are part of a group comprising 30 people, also from Thanh Hoa, who dropped by
Dong Hoi on their way home after travelling with Tuan to Da
Nang and Quang Tri Provinces
in central Vietnam. The cab drivers, after a while, called in a gang who then rushed to attack the
passengers with sticks, knives, and swords. One of them suddenly thrust a
50-centimeter sword into Tuan's left eye socket. The others were slightly hurt.
Tuan was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, and then sent to Hue central hospital in Thua Thien Hue Province
as local doctors said the wound was truly serious. He survived the operation at
the latter hospital though the sword penetrated almost 10 cm deep inside the
orbit. His eye was luckily not damaged and neither was any part of his brain, doctors
at Hue hospital
confirmed.
8. The dog that survived being stabbed to the head during a
burglary
This brave dog sits calmly with her owner - just minutes
after burglars stabbed an eight inch blade into her skull. The six-year-old
family pet, named Bella, needed emergency surgery to remove the protruding
knife after the horrific incident. This shocking picture shows how the robbers
narrowly missed the animal's eyes as they plunged the deadly blade into her
forehead. Bella's owner Vernon Swart said he feared the worst when he saw the knife
sticking out of her skull following the attack at his home in South Africa.
He said: "I was in the house when the neighbors called to say our dog was
running around in the street with a massive knife in her head. I didn't
believe them but when I went outside I saw it for myself. The neighbors said
they had caught intruders trying to enter their home and they must have then
tried to get into my place when Bella attacked them in our garden. I feared
the worst and assumed she was going to die, but incredibly she was running
around as if nothing had happened." Mr Swart, a professional artist from Stellenbosch near Cape Town, said he rushed Bella to the vet
for surgery after the stabbing. The vet couldn't believe what he was seeing and
said he had no idea how Bella had survived. The eight inch diver's knife was
later handed to the police as evidence after the surgery. Meanwhile Bella was
recovering at home after her ordeal.
Bonus 1:
Survived after a railroad pipe impaled him through the skull
Phineas Gage is a famous psychological case. He worked
building the railroads in the U.S.
When using dynamite to blow up sections of mountains, the workers would stick
metal pipes in the rock to help. With the force of the explosion, one of the
pipes flew through the air and impaled Gage from the top of the skull, through
his brain, and finally past his jaw. After surgeons of the time removed the
pipe, Gage was free to go back to his normal life. Unfortunately for him and
his family, the pipe damaged the personality section of his brain and he later
became mean, depressed, and a loner.
Bonus 2:
Chinese CounterStrike gamer stabbed in the head for cheating
Playing CounterStrike was never very friendly, what with the
cutthroat competition from across the world for the #1 multiplayer FPS ever.
But things in a small town in the Jilin province of China seem to have gone too far. Imagine a cyber cafe in a small Chinese town, filled with
young gamers and people simply checking their e-mail, where a game of
CounterStrike is being played. Some youths, possibly from the same clan,
noticed another young dude (17-year old) cheating, using a “wallhack” to see
through walls. Ironically, this ability to “see through walls” in the game led to
the opposite coming true in the real world, where the young cheater did not
realise he was being watched while he was doing his dirty work.
A fight ensued, moved outside the cafe, and resulted in the young cheater being stabbed right through the head (yes, the head!) with a 30cm knife that entered from his left temple to jam into the other side of the skull (trying to close the valve!). It seems that he remained conscious, and was transferred to the hospital by ambulance where doctors began to operate immediately. They succeeded in removing the knife, which had somehow miraculously missed all major arteries, without causing a haemorrhage or damage to the motor control areas through which the knife passed. To further steam up the issue, after the 10 hour operation, doctors noted that the knife used was rusty, and have therefore kept the undeserving victim of CounterStrike honour for observation in case pieces of rust that may have remained cause any problems.
A fight ensued, moved outside the cafe, and resulted in the young cheater being stabbed right through the head (yes, the head!) with a 30cm knife that entered from his left temple to jam into the other side of the skull (trying to close the valve!). It seems that he remained conscious, and was transferred to the hospital by ambulance where doctors began to operate immediately. They succeeded in removing the knife, which had somehow miraculously missed all major arteries, without causing a haemorrhage or damage to the motor control areas through which the knife passed. To further steam up the issue, after the 10 hour operation, doctors noted that the knife used was rusty, and have therefore kept the undeserving victim of CounterStrike honour for observation in case pieces of rust that may have remained cause any problems.
The cafe will obviously suffer negative publicity, apart
from facing some serious arm-twisting from the government, as one of the
reasons for its popularity was that it did not enforce the “draconian
restrictions” placed on cyber cafes in China. Phew! This gives 'letting
off some steam' a new meaning!
Source : http://www.oddee.com
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