Pensioner Survives Impaling Himself On Garden Shears

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An 86-year-old man has spoken of how he amazingly cheated death after being impaled through the eye by a pair of pruning shears. Leroy Luetscher, of Phoenix, Arizona, had just finished trimming plants in his back garden when he fell face-first into the shears, sending one of the handles through his right eye socket and halfway into his head.

Unsure what had happened, Mr Luetscher reached up and felt the shears jutting from his face. He was covered in blood and in more pain than he had ever felt in his life. "I didn't know if my eyeball was still there or what," he said. In hospital, a team of surgeons took scans of his brain and came up with a plan to treat him. They learned the handle had gone 6ins into his head and was resting against the carotid artery in his neck.

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