Man turned into human kebab

Terrified athlete Jian Liao watched as fire fighters set light to a javelin after it turned him into a human kebab.

A classmate's bungled throw sent the five foot spear right through the student's knee cap on the track at Guilin, southern China.



Rescue workers abandoned plans to cut the javelin off with bolt cutters when Liao began screaming in agony.

"Instead we set fire to it and burned it in half which looked dramatic but caused the victim no pain," said a spokesman.