Man falls asleep unaware of knife stuck in his back

A RUSSIAN electrician took the bus home from a vodka binge, ate breakfast and slept off his hangover never realising a kitchen knife had been plunged into his back.

The discovery was made by his wife who noticed the handle of the six-inch knife sticking out of his back when she went to wake him.

Yuri Lyalin, 53, said he had been sleeping peacefully before his wife woke him with the bad news.

He was rushed to casualty but doctors found that no vital organs had been damaged.

Lyalin’s drinking partner, who allegedly stabbed him, faces trial, according to Russian media reports.

“The accused faces a severe punishment,” said Pavel Vorobyov, a deputy prosecutor in the city of Vologda.

Lyalin had spent the evening drinking with a watchman at his workplace when they got into a drunken fight. After the night of boozing, he woke up in the watchman’s office but instead of going back to work, took the bus home.

“At home, Mr Lyalin had some sausage from the fridge and lay down to sleep,” the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.

After a couple of hours, his wife noticed the handle sticking out of his back and called an ambulance.

Viktor Belov, a surgeon who treated him, found a kitchen knife in Lyalin’s back but “by good fortune, it had gone through soft tissue without touching vital organs”.

His alleged attacker reported the crime to the police himself. Lyalin said he bears no ill-will against his attacker.

“We were drinking and what doesn’t happen when you’re drunk?” he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying.