These amazing X-rays show how a man arrived with a tap and 16 inches of pipework stuck in his eye at a hospital’s casualty unit. But the terrified patient was forced to pull the tap out himself – because surgeons took three hours to send for a plumber to get it out. Yi Zhao, 57, had slipped in the bath impaling his left eye on the tap at his home. This 2.5lb and 17 cm in diameter kidney stone was removed from a patient in Hungary, world’s largest. Eleven-year-old Chinese schoolboy Liu Cheong had a brush with death when his friend shot him in the head with a 16-inch arrow, [...]

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