Knife impales Chinese man in head; earns him the nickname ‘Calm Brother’

Knife ‘falls from sky’ into Chinese man’s head http://fw.to/gGhyOKR (from the Twitter account of Telegraph News)

BEIJING – Yunzhi Xiao, 57, was on a leisurely stroll last Thursday to a grocery store near his neighborhood in the city of Guangyuan, China, when he suddenly felt what he described as “very heavy weight” on his head. Little did the unsuspecting pedestrian know that “weight” was a knife which had fallen by accident from an eighth-story balcony; impaling him as he walked by.

“It hurt a lot. I cried out, ‘My head! My head hurts!’ but I did not know what had happened,” Xiao told reporters from NBC News from his hospital bed.

Xiao continued walking, oblivious to the knife sticking out of the side of his skull, until a street vendor yelled out at him, “There is a knife in your head!” Xiao was still able to walk 100 yards further, before he was overcome by the pain, which forced him to stop and sit down at a phone booth.

“Some warm-hearted people passing by saw me bleeding and called the police who took me to a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. A few hours later doctors took the knife out of my head,” Xiao recounted.

Reports from local media sources say the knife that impaled Xiao was a knocked off the ledge of an eighth floor balcony by gusty winds. The owner of the knife had been working on the balcony garden, and set the implement down on the ledge when the wind toppled it down.

Xiao has been given the moniker “Calm Brother” by netizens reacting to pictures circulating online, showing Xiao’s wound and his undisturbed manner and appearance. Photos which have surfaced on China’s WebSphere have already garnered tens of thousands of views.

Meanwhile, the knife’s owner – who went through police interrogation – visited Xiao at the hospital to apologize.

The photo that earned Xiao the nickname “Calm Brother” (form the Twitter account of @weihuibao)