A man is appealing for eyewitnesses and visual evidence of an accident that left him with a 4cm gash on his forehead from a vendor at the Geylang Serai Bazaar.

Facebook user Derick Chow says he was swiped in the head by a stick used by a Turkish ice cream vendor, while the latter was performing a prank before serving the ice cream to him.

According to The Straits Times, the incident occurred on the night of Jun. 2, when Chow was visiting the bazaar with his girlfriend.

The couple decided to stop for some Turkish ice cream, and they were presumably watching the vendor perform the ice cream prank at close quarters due to the crowd at the bazaar.

For those who are not familiar with the dessert, Turkish ice-cream (or dondurma) is commonly served with the scoop being first placed at the edge of a metal stick before being twirled around in the air out of the customer's reach. The ice cream server often plays pranks on his customers as part of the trick, before finally placing the scoop into a cone or cup to hand to them.

In this case, the ice cream chef had pranked Chow's girlfriend before turning to him. But when Chow reached out for the ice cream, the impact from the metal stick accidentally hitting him resulted in a deep cut.

ST reports that Chow then took a taxi to Raffles Hospital, where he received 20 stitches and a $4,000 bill.

He is reportedly planning to claim the bill from the stall's insurance, but as part of negotiations, the vendor requested video footage of the incident.

A police report was also reportedly made from the accident, but Chow hopes that some of the people he says were taking videos of the ice cream man's performance will come forward to share footage with him.

All that said, Chow stated in the comments of his post that the ice-cream vendor is a "nice guy," and that the ice-cream tasted "really good".

Read his full post here:

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