Teen impaled by javelin in freak accident at school

It looks like he got the point.

A teen in India miraculously survived after a javelin was thrown through his neck during a freak track and field accident, as seen in a video of his impromptu piercing.

The freak accident occurred on Dec. 17 while Sadanand Meher, 14, was playing sports at the Agalpur High School in Odisha, India, Jam Press reported. Disaster struck after a student threw the sporting spear that ended up piercing the boy’s neck, going in one end and out the other.

Accompanying footage shows the boy being escorted out of the back of an ambulance by bystanders and medical personnel with the projectile sticking through his throat like a rubber arrow from an old Western film. Despite the gruesome injury, the boy is seemingly able to walk on his own and even manages to hold the javelin steady with his hands en route to the hospital.

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The boy was administered to the Bhima Bhoi Medical College & Hospital, where doctors were able to remove the spear from his neck. Miraculously, he survived the horrific catastrophe without sustaining long-term injury, per Jam Press.

It’s as yet unclear how the accident occurred or if there were any teachers supervising the activities at the time. Authorities have since launched a probe to try and get to the bottom of the fiasco.

This isn’t the first time a teen has been turned into a human shish kebab.

In a more serious incident in March, a tourist was left in critical condition after a needlefish impaled him in the neck while he was swimming in Thailand.