When you stop in at your local watering hole for a drink, you generally return home with nothing but a slight beer buzz, or maybe the phone number of a new acquaintance, if you're lucky. But when 42-year-old David Huckvale walked into a  pub in England for a pint, he ended up coming home with a far greater prize: the promise of a new bionic leg.

Huckvale's leg was amputated more than a decade ago, after doctors found a benign tumor. Since then, he's been using an ill-fitting prosthetic leg to walk around, and often needs crutches to help him walk. He'd been saving up for a state-of-the-art bionic leg, but the price was steep – £40,000 (around $80,000).

But while having a drink at the pub, he happened to meet Alistair Gibson – a surgeon who specializes in fitting prosthetic limbs. And as chance would have it, he just happened to have a spare prosthetic leg that he could fit for Huckvale, free of charge.

"I have been blessed by a miracle," Huckvale told the Sunday Mirror. "I can now play in the garden with my two girls. Alistair has given me my life back."

He sure sounds like a drinking buddy worth keeping.