Seven-year-old Sameer Anwar from New Zealand put a tiny Lego hand stuck up his nose and said he was “frightened and surprised” when he realised the hand wouldn’t come out.

Dad Mudassir Anwar checked for the piece and then took his son to the doctor, but they never managed to find it.

“Since then we were pretty confident that he didn’t have anything up his nose,” Mudassir Anwar told BBC News. He says he thought the hand might have passed into Sameer’s stomach or simply fallen out at some other time.

Dad also chalked the incident up to his son’s mischievous nature, assuming that perhaps he’d made it up.

The big moment came earlier this month, when he sniffed some cupcakes and the frosting tickled his nose just right. He felt the hand come lose, so he blew his nose and the tiny Lego piece shot out entirely intact.

The parents say they’ll be confiscating all of the small pieces from future kits for at least a year.