A schoolboy surprised himself - and his family - when he sneezed out a 5p coin, which he claims has been stuck up his nose for 10 years. Umair Qamar, now aged 14, says he has a vague memory of shoving the coin up a nostril when he was younger.
Although his mum took him to the doctor’s on several occasions when he complained about having a sore nose, the 5p piece was never found. But the coin finally made an appearance last week on June 19 when the teenager felt something up his nose.
After complaining of a painful nose, Umair, from Croydon, south London, followed his mum’s advice to blow his nose hard and he tried breathing out of alternate nostrils. Eventually the 5p coin shot out of his nose.
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He said: "I thought there was something stuck in there as I could feel something hard in my nose so I went back upstairs and held my left nostril, breathed in and then breathed out of my right one." And, with cotton buds in both ears, Umair managed to breathe out so hard that the coin popped out of his nostril.
Umair added: "I think I got it stuck up there when I was three or four years old - I can't really remember. When I got over the shock of it all, I felt pure relief - but it definitely took me a while to get over the surprise!"
His mum Afsheen Qamar, 43, described the incident as "completely bizarre". The nursery manager said: "It happened so randomly - I wasn't expecting it at all! I called him for lunch but he was holding his nose - so I told him to blow it.
"After 15 minutes he came back down, just stood there and said, 'well, a 5p coin came out'. We all stopped eating. I remember asking him,
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