The good luck charms he was cutting up didn't work, obviously

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD has had a miracle escape after slipping over on a pair of razor-sharp scissors.

The tiny tot had been cutting up traditional good luck scrolls at his family home in China.

But when little Yuqi Lui’s father arrived home, the boy sprinted to the front door to meet him, tripped and the blades  slammed through his face and became embedded next to his brain.

His mother Fengshuang said: “I heard him shout ‘Papa!’ and run out.

“I looked out the window expecting to see him come into view and then suddenly I heard him scream.

“It was a terrible high pitched wail and my heart leapt into my mouth.

“I ran and when I got to him I saw the huge pair of scissors that he had been using to cut up the scrolls was jutting from his face.”

The child’s parents borrowed a farm truck for an agonising ride around local hospitals seeking treatment for their stricken son.

And after 17 hours on the road, surgeons at Beijing’s Capital Institute of Pediatrics at the Xiehe Hospital agreed to operate.

X-rays showed the blades had only been stopped from reaching Yuqi’s brain because thet had caught on his jawbone.

His mother added:”He told us that if the scissors had been pulled out when the accident happened our son would have died.”

Yuqi has now made a full recovery after two weeks in hospital.

“It cost us all the savings we had but it was worth it to get the sunshine back into our lives,” added his relieved mother.

The four-year-old has made a full recovery...and now has a cool scar

'Many of the ATMs looked quite a lot like this one,' explains elephant-brained Yin Zhao

A CHINAMAN is facing five years in jail after using his incredible memory for numbers to steal £20,000 from ATMs.

Yin Zhao, 27, can recognise any PIN or card number at a single glance and keep it stored in his memory for years, say police in Chengdu, central China.

He managed to pocket a small fortune in a two-year crime spree using debit and credit cards left behind in ATMs by forgetful owners.

Yin, seen here being taken back to a cash point in handcuffs by police to publicly show them how he did it, explained: “I checked the balance and it was more than I earn in a month.

“I reset her password and took all the money out. It was so easy I just couldn’t stop.”

The former computer added: “I would stare at every person coming in to use the ATM, and could tell immediately who was forgetful, and might leave the card in the machine.

“I can remember numbers I saw a year ago just for a second or two over someone’s shoulder.

“I just have that kind of memory,” he said, according to a report in the Austrian Times.

CARD TRICKS: The boy can beat adults using just his feet (Europics.at)

POKER players are used to keeping their cards close to their chest.

You need a ladder just to drink from the gigantic wine bottle (Europics.at)

THIS is the world’s biggest EVER bottle of wine.

The binmen just dumped all the trash in the street at the end of their shift (Pic: Europics.at)

MEET the most rubbish binmen in the world.

This previously clean and well kept road became a stinking tip overnight when trash collectors simply dumped their loads in the street when their shift ended.

Residents in Zhengzhou, central China, woke up to find tons of stinking rubbish all over the roadside causing chaos for morning commuters.

More than 50 refuse collectors and 28 trucks spent a whole day clearing away the trash before the street was back to normal again.

One official said: “The binmen have a work dispute and had been delayed on their round by fog.”

He told the Austrian Times: “So the minute their shift ended they emptied the trucks where they were and went home.”

The real-life elephant man has his own trunk (Pics: Europics.at)

Meet the real-life Elephant Man.

The 28-year-old has baffled medics after growing an enormous tumour which covers his entire head and face.

Yang Huiming, who lives in rural central China, is thought to suffer from a rare condition in which benign tumours ‘bond’ with each other – resulting in a single huge growth.

In his case, it has left him with this unsightly ’trunk’ over his nose and up his forehead, reminiscent of the character played by John Hurt in the 1980 Oscar-nominated film.

The growths began with a small bean-sized lump on his left eyelid as a
toddler and quickly spread all over his face, say medics at Military 304
Hospital, in Beijing.

Surgeons believe the growths are caused by a rare deformity of Yang’s skull
which causes facial tissue to constantly grow over diseased fibres
protruding from the skull.

The enormous growth is even visible in X Rays

Now they plan to remove the damaged part of Yang’s skull and replace it with
an alloy plate to halt the constant regrowth of fatty tumours.

“All I want is to look normal.

“I hope and pray this will work,” Yang told the Austrian Times.

This X-ray shows the needles inside the man's stomach Pic: europics.at

But after finding his blood pressure was fine they sent him for X-rays – and found 11 long needles buried in his intestines.

Medics believe that Ching Goha of Leping, eastern China, may have unwittingly injured himself by following an ancient Chinese tradition to ward off evil spirits by carrying big needles.

“I used to carry a bag of them around in my pocket but I never felt anything jabbing into me,” claimed Ching.

Now hospital staff have removed nine of the needles – with some measuring nearly two inches long – and say they will get the final two in a second op.

Some of the needles were more than two inches long

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Medics and firefighters try to free Peng's right arm from the meat grinder

THIS horrified worker got his right forearm mangled by a meat grinder when a co-worker turned on the switch by accident.

The 18-year-old was cleaning the grinder after work when a colleague accidentally turned on the machine, sucking his right arm into the grinder.

The victim, a Mr Peng, was rapidly transferred to Bujie Hospital in southern China’s Guangdong province – along with the machinery.

“I heard a scream so turned it off ,” said the terrified co-worker.

Mr Peng was finally freed several hours later by medics and firefighters using heavy cutting equipment.

His right arm was badly fractured, but miraculously does not need to be amputated.

Most toddlers can't even use cutlery, but he managed to find his own brain with a chopstick Pic: Europics.at

DOCTORS have saved a toddler who fell while trying to walk – and stabbed a chopstick into his brain.

Chao Chao – just 14 months old – was playing by himself at his family home in Shandong, eastern China, when he slipped and fell on the chopstick sending it straight up through his nose.

His parents drove 10 hours to Beijing to a specialist head injury hospital where medics managed to remove the stick during a four hour operation.

“We got to it before any infection set in and he should make a full recovery.

“Although it pierced his brain, it doesn’t seem to have done any long term damage,” head surgeon Dr Sun Wei told the Austrian Times.