The first images of a 16-year-old boy who survived after being
impaled in the head by a fishing spear have been released.  The
images show the key factors that may have saved the Florida
teen's life, according to surgeons who were able to remove the
long piece of metal that had pierced all the way through the
teen's brain.  Yasser Lopez had been fishing with a friend at a
Miami lake about two weeks ago when the spear gun they were
using suddenly fired and lodged in Lopez's head, according to
Miami-Dade police.  Soon afterwards, Lopez was rushed to the
University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he had
reportedly arrived conscious but with 3 feet of the spear
protruding from his forehead.  "It's a striking injury," Dr.
George Garcia, an army trauma surgeon who treated Lopez said at
a press conference on Monday. "It's something you don't see
every day, to have a patient awake and speaking with a three-
foot spear through his head."  "The tip, it didn't penetrate the
skin but you could feel underneath th