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A Madison, WI bicyclist had his head run over by a delivery truck - and walked away with nothing more than a concussion and a smashed helmet.

“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head,” said Ryan Lipscomb.

The graduate student in medical physics was riding down a bike path on Friday afternoon when the truck made a right turn in front of him. Lipscomb tried to stop his bicycle, and ended up landing in the street, where the truck rolled over his head and kept on going.

Lipscomb’s helmet is practically flattened, and laced with tread marks and cracks. He was released after about three hours in a local hospital. “I’m okay except for a concussion,” he said on Friday.

The accident, ruled a hit-and-run is under investigation. “The truck driver definitely would’ve known,” said Lipscomb. “You know when you run over a curb, and my head was definitely higher than a curb.”

Got a headache? It’s nothing like this.

Doctors investigating a headache complaint in 77 year-old Jin Guangying discovered that she’d had a bullet in her head for over 60 years. “We were surprised to learn there was a bullet inside her head,” her son Wang Zhengbang told the Yangtse Evening Post.

Guangying recalls being shot in 1943 by invading Japanese troops during World War II. “I was 13, living along the railways in Xuzhou City. One afternoon in September,” she said. “My mother asked me to take a meal to my father and his colleagues who were fighting the Japanese.

“I was spotted by the Japanese army. They ran after me and opened fire. A bullet passed through the corner of my right ear. I hit the ground and lost consciousness,” she said.

Guangying woke up back home in her bed. Her mother used traditional herbal medicines to nurse her back to health and in three months, Guangying had made a complete recovery. She later learned the bullet had hit her head after passing through someone else’s arm.

The surgeon who removed the bullet was surprised Guangying had it in her head for so long without serious complications. “The act that the bullet lost strength and speed passing through another person, and that the point it struck is not vital, may explain her survival,” he said.