It yet another bizarre tale out of China, Li Fuyan was robbed then stabbed in the head on the right side of his jaw nearly four years ago, but failed to realize the blade broke off and remained in his skull.

“As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears,” Li, 30, told Chinese state TV. “It has been four years already.”

Unable to take the pain any longer, Fuyan finally went to the hospital where surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it.

“We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head,” Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital’s stomatology department, told state broadcaster CCTV.

As mind baffling as not knowing there is a rusty knife stuck in your head is, this is not the first bizarre incident of strange weapons embedded into people’s bodies. In fact, one of Li’s countrymen once had to have a pair of scissors removed from his esophagus two years ago.

In April 2009, a Colorado man coughed up a nail that had been stuck up his nose for three decades. Also in 2009, a 2-year-old Brazilian boy was found living with 50 sewing needles lodged throughout his body. And back in 2004, doctors in France found 350 coins in a man’s stomach.

[Cheers aolnews.com]