Piece of man’s skull falls off, draws crowds | Reuters.com — Yuk! Gak!
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) – Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy’s skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.
“When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull,” Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.
“Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases.”
I vaguely remember reading a story like this before … is this old news?
Somebody better get that guy a football helmet.
…and it looks like Africa…or is that the Virgin Mary?
I see an Ebay auction in his future!
That is one lucky SOB.
Freaky…
Why couldn’t somebody get a clear picture of this? Probably the same reason we’ve never seen a clear UFO picture.
why does all the werid medical stuff happen over in india ?
That’s a ‘piece’ of his skull? That looks like the whole thing, and also a map of Africa.
It’s the radiation from all the new telephone earpieces. I hope Sambhu (err. I mean Joe) has good health insurance through Dell or one of the others.
He apparently received a severe electrical burn to the head while working on power lines. The skull piece died and fell off. The miracle is that he’s still alive and the skull is growing back.
Growing back? You wouldn’t think a piece that large would grow back. Better take more calcium supplements.
There is fresh bone growth on the edges of the injury. Learn your grammar. “Growing” isn’t “grown”.
Is that really his skull he is holding? It’s huge! It looks bigger than that cloth on his head even if you account for a wide angle lens.
In India is is very common for beggers to fake injuries. I saw it, literally, every day when I lived there.
Is that possbily this?