Crazy X-Ray Pics (And The Shocking Stories Behind Them)

Two school boys in China were practicing their archery when one of the friends shot a 16-inch arrow right through the eye socket of 11-year-old Liu Cheong. The back of the skull was the only thing that stopped the arrow. Fortunately, the boy was rushed to Hida Hospital in eastern China and survived the ordeal.

Just 35 miles southeast of the capital of El Salvador is the maximum-security prison in Zacatecoluca, where one prisoner was found to have been hiding a cell phone inside his colon. When they investigated further, they discovered that three other prisoners were in the same predicament. We hope that call was worth it.

Usually, getting nailed is a good thing, but not in Patrick Lawler's case. The Colorado man found out that his toothache was not related to a cavity or an infection. But it was the dentist who was shocked when he looked at the x-ray and found this nail passing through the roof of his mouth and ran straight up to his brain.

Australian patient Pat Skinner had returned to the hospital 18 months after the 69-year-old woman had parts of her colon taken out at Sydney's St. George Hospital in May of 2001. What doctors found in her stomach were a pair of scissors that had been accidentally left inside of her abdomen.

Zhang Weiwei, a 22-year-old varsity student from the Wuhan University in central China's Hubei Province swallowed a 14 cm metal spoon when a friend jumped up on top of her to say hi, which shocked her. Doctors lassoed the spoon with a wire snare that went in her stomach, but there was no internal bleeding.

Doctors at a Saudi Arabian hospital in the Al-Ahsa region discovered a 21-year-old man with a lightbulb inside of his stomach. The man went to the E.R. after getting sick. When x-rays showed the unusual object, they immediately operated on him. Turns out he had been living with a light bulb he swallowed when he was 10.

Sandor Sarkadi from Hungary went to the hospital with extreme back and side pain that felt like he was being thrust with hot pokers. To his relief, the x-rays showed a 7-inch kidney stone that was the source of the pain. Once removed from Sandor, the kidney stone looked like an ostrich egg and weighed 2 pounds.

When it comes to weird x-ray pics, this one takes the prize. Turns out Reed Harris from New Mexico slipped a wedding ring into his girlfriend, Kaitlin Whipple's milkshake and she drank it! Unfortunately, this ruined the romantic moment, especially since he couldn't finish proposing until she "passed" it along out.

Imagine having a headache that lasts for four years. Well, that is exactly what happened to a man in Seoul, South Korea. He went to the hospital, and after he had an x-ray, both him and the doctors were shocked. He had a nail embedded in his skull. The patient was unaware of it for four years. 

The x-ray is said to be a 1966 relic from the Vietnam War. No one really knows anything of its true origin. The hand grenade is embedded in the soldier's forehead. The x-ray photo was part of a training textbook which stated that the soldier had been walking behind another soldier who set off a mine. The explosion struck the second soldier.

Luis Eduardo Perez Arango, a soldier from Bogota, Colombia had to have surgery outside because of what his x-ray showed. He had a live grenade lodged in his face. The military hospital made a temporary operating outside in the parking lot to keep other patients safe in case the grenade went off.  He is doing just fine now.

Chen, Liu, 27, who was also known as Anthony Liu, was found dead near the Georges River in Sydney, Australia in 2008. The x-ray revealed he had been shot 34 times in the neck and head with a nail gun. Then his body was dumped in the river. Now that sure is one brutal way to check out of this life.

<p>Yassin Elmansouri, 17, stabbed a boy, 16, during a failed robbery by a bus stop in south London in November 2007. That's enough to make anyone cringe. Ironically, he never lost consciousness, and there was no brain damage. So after being treated, the kid made a full recovery, and Elmansouri got a life sentence.</p>

<p>Lin Kong borrowed a four-inch-long pair of nail scissors to get something stuck in his tooth. Unfortunately, the 27-year-old laughed so hard when a friend told a joke that he swallowed it, and as he tried coughing it out, it went in deeper causing damage. But doctors at the Putian hospital in China managed to save him.</p>

<p>Houdini, a 12-foot Burmese python from Ketchum, Ohio nearly died after swallowing a queen-size electric <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13939272/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/surgery-removes-electric-blanket-python/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blanket</a>, including the control box and electric cord. The owner, Karl Beznoska, assumed the blanket was close to the python's dinner, which was a rabbit. But surgery safely got the blanket removed.</p>

<p>In 2007, a teenager snuck up on Sgt. Dan Powers in Eastern Baghdad and stabbed him on the right side of his head with a 9-inch knife, of which 4 inches had managed to penetrate the soldier. Powers had no idea what had happened to him. But was taken to a combat hospital where he made a full recovery.</p>

<p>In 2005, Elsie, a 6-month old St. Bernard from Plantation, Florida underwent a 2-hour surgery to have a 13-inch serrated knife removed from its stomach. Owner, Jane Scarola is happy to have her knife and her puppy back at home, and despite the fact that Elsie has an 8-inch scar, it did quite well after the surgery.</p>

<p>Ron Hunt barely survived an accident in which an 18-inch drill bit went through his right eye and into his skull. The construction worker had landed face-first on the drill. Fortunately, he didn't suffer any permanent damage after his brother Chris, and his nephew Ben rushed him to the E.R. in Reno, Nevada.</p>

<p>Talk about weird x-ray pics! A young woman in China got into a spat with her boyfriend and decided that eating over 20 cobblestones would make things right. It didn't. She assumed eating and drinking would help flush the stones out. But they didn't and she had to be rushed to the hospital to get medical help fast.</p>