OUCH!

An X-ray image of the chair leg that was lodged in Shafique El-Fahkri's left eye socket and neck.

MELBOURNE, Australia — 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, 19, who was standing about 10 feet away.

A leg of the chair plunged into his eye socket and down into his neck. Surgeons removed the chair leg in a three-hour operation through the right side of El-Fahkri's neck, according to media reports.

Thinking he had killed the man, Peart panicked and ran. He surrendered to police the next day.