This guy is going to have a headache

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) - June 11, 2008

A suburban Kansas City man has survived being accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun.

George Chandler and a friend were working on a backyard project when the nail gun became tangled in the air hose.

A single two-and-a-half-inch nail was fired.

At first Chandler didn't realize it had gone into his skull.

An ambulance rushed him to a hospital, where the doctor used an ordinary claw hammer to pull out the nail.

Chandler says he feels fine and knows he's "very, very lucky."

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