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A bizarre traffic accident in Chengdu, China went viral when a young man riding an electric scooter crashed into a temporary traffic light and somehow got his head stuck inside it. The unusual incident required firefighters to spend nearly 40 minutes carefully cutting away the metal casing to safely free the man's head from the traffic light. After being rescued, the man was taken to a local hospital where he made a full recovery from the crash.
However, the incident gained widespread attention on Chinese social media, inspiring countless jokes and memes about the strange predicament. Reddit users had a field day with puns, with one cleverly describing it as "a head-on collision, but with only light damage." Others compared the situation to winning the lottery due to how rare such an accident would be, while some joked that he looked like the Green Lantern character.