Introducing your unfortunate/lucky fella of the week.

Shooting yourself in the eye with a harpoon gun doesn’t really bear thinking about. For one it would be incredibly painful and, two, it would almost certainly be game over.

Brazilian Bruno Coutinho experienced that horror this week but miraculously survived. While cleaning his harpoon gun in the city of Petropolis he set it off, sending the metal spear through his eye and into his skull.

Luckily for Bruno the harpoon missed every major artery and after a four-hour operation, the spike was removed from his skull. Even more luckily, no brain damage was done, though Bruno has lost his left eye in the incident.

Dr Orlando Maria, the top neurosurgeon at the hospital that performed the delicate removal is quoted on Sky News as saying the spike was within millimeters of a major artery.

He said: "The object, it seems, took a path where it didn't damage any vital structures, any vascular structures and was taken out."

Bruno remains in intensive care but he should be released in a few days.

Pics via Sky News