Polish man finds bullet in head five years after party Published duration 24 August 2010

image caption Doctors said the bullet (top-right) did not penetrate the man's skull

A Polish man living in Germany spent five years with a bullet in the back of his head having forgotten he was shot because he was drunk when it happened.

Police in the western city of Bochum said doctors had found a .22-calibre round after the 35-year-old asked them to remove what he thought was a cyst.

They said the man recalled receiving a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year's Eve party "in 2004 or 2005".

It is thought it might have been a stray bullet fired in celebration.

"It may have been a shot fired up in the air which entered his head on the way down," a police spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.

"He told us he remembered having a sore head, but that he wasn't really one for going to the doctor."