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A 'serious'? injury.

by JP Bill Apr 24, 2007 1:56AM PDT

Chair leg in eye socket after fight

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? An Australian man who hurled a metal chair at another man, leaving one of its legs lodged 4 inches into his eye socket and neck, was sentenced Tuesday to 400 hours of community service.

Liam Peart, 20, hurled the metal chair during a nightclub brawl in Melbourne in January, hitting Shafique El-Fahkri, who was standing about 10 feet away.

A leg of the chair plunged into his eye socket and down into his neck.

Lucky he escaped with "serious" injury.

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