A Polish man living in Herne, Germany will be released from hospital this week after successfully having a .22 caliber bullet dislodged from his skull. He’s perfectly fine and had been ever since he got hit five years ago.
The 35-year-old man went to get (what he thought was) a cyst removed last Friday, and that’s when the doctor realized the bump was, in fact, a bullet!
The man was partying way too hard one New Year’s Eve a handful of years ago. He recalled a blow to the head but was too drunk to remember what happened.
“He told us he remembered having a sore head, but that he wasn’t really one for going to the doctor,” a police spokesman told Reuters.
Eventually the wound healed around the bullet, and the man not only survived, but didn’t even realize he had been shot. He finally went to the doctor because recurring pains had become bothersome.
No one believes there was foul play involved on what must have been one crazy night. Most likely the gunshot came from celebratory fire, nothing malicious. ”It may have been a shot fired up in the air which entered his head on the way down,” the spokesman said.
Fortunately, the man was not severely injured and is now bullet-free.
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