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08th Dec 2014

Video: Hard hat saves man on live TV as huge icicle lands on his head during interview

The Serbian Energy Minister is very lucky to still be alive…

Alan Loughnane

He is very lucky to still be alive…

Live TV can always be a tad risky, but that’s usually because somebody might curse or mess up their lines, not because they may get almost-decapitated by a falling icicle.

Serbian Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic was doing an interview on live television in Majdanpek, a town where repair work was being done on power lines, when he was struck by the falling missile.

Antic was very luck he was wearing a hard hat which saved him serious injury and possible death, especially if the broken hard hat is anything to go by…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCgTs-5psc

Video via Live Leak.

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