Photos of a Chinese man who, according to local sources, calmly walked into a hospital in the northeastern Jilin province with a knife sticking out of his head are making the rounds this week[1] on Chinese social media networks and news sites, for obvious reasons.


The unidentified man reportedly told witnesses that the knife had become embedded in his skull accidentally,[2] and he did not appear to be impaired or particularly upset about his shocking protuberance, according to The Huffington Post's translation of a story on Chinese news site Dazhong Newspaper.


The Global Times, meanwhile, reported that the man was later transferred to a hospital affiliated with the Yanbian University. The knife was removed and the man was sent home.[3] [4]


In 2011, doctors in southern China successfully removed a rusty 4-inch knife from the jaw of a man[5] who said it must have been lodged there for close to four years, unnoticed. Doctors said "sheer luck" had prevented the knife from doing more serious damage, according to The Associated Press.



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  • In this Sunday March 10, 2013 photo, soldiers dressed as ushers guard front row seats on the second floor of the main hall of the Great Hall of the People, while a live video image of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party's General Secretary and the nation's incoming-President, is shown on a screen during a plenary session of the National People's Congress, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, delegates from the Chinese People's Liberation Army march in formation into the Great Hall of the People to attend a plenary session of the National People's Congress, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, a police car drives past while paramilitary policemen in uniforms and in plainclothes keep watch on people who gathered to see a flag-raising ceremony at dawn at Tiananmen Square before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress that is to be held later in the morning inside the nearby Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, a monk, who is also a delegate, holds a cup of tea while looking for an unoccupied chair outside the main hall of the Great Hall of the People, where a plenary session of the National People's Congress is being held, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, delegates sip tea, chat, rest, and take photos outside the main hall of the Great Hall of the People, where a plenary session of the National People's Congress is being held, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, a delegate takes a nap while other delegates chat and drink tea outside the main hall of the Great Hall of the People, where a plenary session of the National People's Congress is being held, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, delegates of the National People's Congress chat, use a mobile phone, and give an interview in a corridor at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, National People's Congress delegates from eastern China's Fujian province attend a group discussion, with top provincial leaders seated in the center, at Fujian Hall inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, soldiers dressed as ushers guard a corridor that leads to halls where closed-door meetings of the National People's Congress delegations are held, while an anti-explosive device, left, and a vase, right, are placed nearby, inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, National People's Congress delegates, one dressed in ethnic attire, walk past a glass screen to join a group discussion of delegates from central China's Hunan province at Hunan Hall inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, top regional officials, who are also delegates, shake hands while other National People's Congress delegates from northern China's Inner Mongolia region wait for a group discussion to begin at the Inner Mongolia Hall inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 photo, soldiers dressed as ushers guard corridors, stairways, and elevators while a delegate, second from right, walks past them inside the Great Hall of the People, where delegates of the National People's Congress are holding group discussions in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, delegates from the People's Liberation Army walk up steps to enter the Great Hall of the People to attend an opening session of the National People's Congress on a hazy day in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Monday, March 4, 2013 photo, a soldier dressed as an usher, front, stands guard at the Great Hall of the People, while delegates, one of them wearing an ethic outfit, walk up the steps to attend a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Monday, March 4, 2013 photo, ethnic minority delegates wearing traditional attire march to the Great Hall of the People to attend a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, a delegate, right, enters the main hall of the Great Hall of the People while soldiers dressed as ushers guard the entrances during the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, a delegate leaves the main hall of the Great Hall of the People while other delegates of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference read copies of a government work report during the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 photo, delegates leave the Great Hall of the People after an opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)




  • In this Sunday, March 3, 2013 photo, journalists wander in front of an electronic screen that is showing slogans as part of a Chinese Communist Party's propaganda video at Tiananmen Square, while the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is held in the nearby Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The slogan reads "To deepen the study and implementation of the spirit of the Communist Party's 18th National Congress." (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)