The X-ray shows the knife stuck in the head of the cyclist. He cycled to his local doctor and calmly asked for help. Furthermore, he has since had the knife removed and is doing well.
There is a photo at the bottom of this piece showing the knife stuck into the cyclist's head, with the wound bleeding. If you would prefer not to see it, don't scroll down all the way.
A cyclist who was attacked in an attempted mugging on the way to work rode to his local GP’s surgery with a knife stuck in his head.
Shaun Wayne, a 34-year-old from South Africa, was riding to the restaurant he manages when he was attacked.
Last Monday as he cycled to work as usual in Cape Town, he was set upon by two men.
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One of them was armed with a knife. He stabbed Wayne and the large knife was left stuck in his head.
The injured man fought off his attackers and managed to hold onto his bike, despite the muggers trying to take it from him.
After the assailants had fled, Wayne got back on his bike and rode to the doctor’s surgery. He walked in and calmly asked: “Do you have a doctor free?”
Luckily the surgery was close by, about a kilometre away from where he was attacked in the street.
And after being examined in the surgery of his GP Brendan Venter, a former Springbok rugby player, Wayne was taken to hospital.
He had the knife removed and incredibly is expected to make a full recovery. It emerged he was very lucky in the way the knife bent on impact with his skull.
Dr Venter told the Mirror newspaper that one of the female doctors who was on duty was called out to attend to the unusual knife wound.
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“To say it was dramatic to see him with a knife sticking out of the side of his head was an understatement. But he was very calm and lucid although bleeding a lot,” Dr Venter explained.
"He asked very politely if we had a doctor free to see him. The doctor decided that rather than wait for an ambulance, she would drive him to hospital in her car herself and he asked if it was okay to leave his bike with us.
“The patient was very lucky in that although the knife was plunged into his skull, it bent on impact with the bone. And the blade went down his face outside the skull.
“He was very, very lucky that the blade hit him in the wrong spot to kill him. He fought for his bike back and rode to us as he knew where we were.
“We are his GP and when he got here, he just walked in and calmly asked for help. This is not something that happens every day," he added of the attack.
"It seems it is a violent gang who have struck viciously a few times in the last few weeks and they will be caught.
“It was not even an expensive bike and is one he cycles on to and from work each day. Why they used the level of violence they did is just beyond me.”
The photo of the knife stuck in the cyclist's head is just below. If you don't want to see it, stop here.
Shaun Wayne was lucky the blade bent and went down the side of his skull, rather than through it.
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