'I have a small problem': Man with scissors through skull remains a gent in A&E

Well mannered Jonas Monroy walked into hospital with scissors lodged in his skull and calmly said 'I have a small problem.'

18:02 21 January 2015

Jonas Monroy stunned hospital staff when he walked in with a pair of scissors lodged in his skull and was so calm that staff thought it was a prank. With blood dripping down his face, the 32-year-old politely asked for help after he had been attacked in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Hospital staff, who were amazed by his good manners, nicknamed him “The Gentleman.”

Friend of the wounded man Nandor Altamirano Carvajal, 30, said: "Jonas was as always full of high spirits and was being charming with everyone in the bar when one of the locals took umbrage.

"He came over and started trying to wind Jonas up, but when that didn't work he started getting abusive and aggressive.

“Jonas offered to buy the man a drink but the guy pulled out a pair of scissors from his jacket and stabbed him in the head. What he was doing with a pair of scissors in his pocket I don't know, it was really shocking."

Meanwhile, a hospital spokesman said: "Staff were very surprised when the two walked in and the man with the scissors in his head shook the receptionist's hand and said he seemed to have a small problem and would the receptionist mind helping him.

"At first we thought it was some sort of joke, but then he fainted and we rushed him into emergency. He had been stabbed in the upper-left side of his skull and the scissors had penetrated his parietal brain lobe. He is lucky to be alive."

The man who stabbed him was subsequently arrested by the police.