Impalement

A six-year-old boy has survived falling off the roof of a house and landing on an upturned metal pole.

Mihir Kumar was celebrating the Holi festival in Ranchi, India, when the accident occured.

He slipped off the roof of his family home and landed on a the five foot-long iron rod that was left standing on a building site.

The rod apparently missed the boy's liver, spleen, and aorta, and was sucessfully removed after a three-hour surgery.

(via Arbroath)