A man in China barely escaped death after a farmer’s pitchfork was hurled through his car and impaled his face in a bizarre accident.
Kong Xie was sitting in his car while outside a farmer’s market when a farmer, aiming for hay bales, hurled his pitchfork that mistakenly went through his windshield, reports the Austrian Times. Incredibly, the fork had missed Xie’s brain by fractions of an inch. Pinned to his seat by the fork, firemen were called to free him from the vehicle.
“I felt a searing pain on the side of my head and then when I tried to move it I couldn’t because it had pierced my head,” Xie told reporters. “I couldn’t look to see how bad it was but when people came to the window and started screaming I realised it was bad – and I could feel the blood.”
Xie is expected to make a full recovery, and police say the pitchfork thrower will face charges for endangering public safety.
