Man impaled on shears

AN 86-year-old man has spoken of how he amazingly cheated death after being impaled through the eye by a pair of pruning shears.

Leroy Luetscher, of Phoenix, Arizona, had just finished trimming plants in his back garden when he fell face-first into the shears, sending one of the handles through his right eye socket and halfway into his head.

“I didn’t know if my eyeball was still there or what,” he said. “The pain was so bad that I guess I wasn’t afraid to die.”