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Feces Flinging Monkey comes the story of a 15-year-old Brit named Matthew, who got involved in street fighting and found himself on the wrong end of a harpoon gun. Suddenly there was a spear entering his face and skull, in three different locations.
But he lived!
He had the presence of mind to sit down, rather than fall. It took them 14 hours to work out how to remove the barbs from his face, during which time he was conscious; another 7 hours to remove the prongs and a second operation to remove his eye.
This won't count in the gun violence statistics, so happily Britain remains a non-violent land.