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

The fat 49-year-old before weight-loss surgery (Europics.at)

ONE of the world’s fattest men has spoken of his his joy after surgeons sliced a whopping 264lbs of fat from his body.

The man with his pants around his ankles before and after the surgery

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.

The porters can clearly be seen dropping the corpse on CCTV...before giving up and dragging it Pic: Europics.at

The pair were so drunk they dropped the body repeatedly as they tried to host it back onto the gurney.

Eventually, the porters gave up and simply dragged the corpse to the autopsy room.

Police say they are interviewing two men arrested over the scandal.

“We are investigating this matter. It is possible that this was abuse of a corpse,” police spokesman Slawomir Masojc told the Austrian Times.

Brandy taster Liu Ge's nose has expanded by several inches

A BRANDY taster has been left red-faced after his nose exploded.

Veteran Liu Ge landed the plum job as a teenager and has been drinking up to two litres of strong booze every day for the last 52 years.

It is thought the 68-year-old from Beijing has put away more than 35,000 litres of brandy in that time.

And now he has finally sought medical advice for his damaged hooter.

He said: “Drinking alcohol has been just like drinking water to me.

“I had to drink sometimes two litres a day just to test the quality.”

Doctors in the Chinese capital say Liu has a condition called ‘rhinophyma’ caused by the constant expansion of blood vessels in his nose, which is now a staggering four inches long and two inches wide.