Some people are just born tough and they are able to remain alive and kicking even in extreme movie-like scenarios. Maybe not exactly kicking, but able to drive 60miles with a knife in their head.
This is exactly what happened to Juacelo Nunes, a 39-year-old taxi driver in the Teresina municipality in the Piaui state, Brazil. Early in the morning on December 29, Nunes was stabbed in the head with a 30cm-long (12”) knife at a house party in the village of Agua Branca, some 60 miles away from the city of Teresina. This 30cm knife missed the eye.
He also received multiple other stab wounds in his neck, shoulders and torso. All of this took place during a quarrel with a party attendant who called three of his friends who battered and stabbed Nunes. The final blow was a knife strike which narrowly missed his left eye.
The knife remained lodged in Nunes’ upper jaw bone. He did not lose consciousness and was able to get on his vehicle, driving from Agua Branca to Teresina, where he was admitted into the hospital.
A three-hour-long surgery in the emergency room was needed to extract the knife from Nunes’ head and fix the wounds. Medics say that Nunes was extremely lucky as the damage to the nerves and veins in that area of the head could have easily caused death.
Nunes is recovering very well, and doctors say he will make a full recovery, despite the severity of the wounds he received. This disturbing, yet happy-ending story says a lot about real life motorcyclists.
