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This is about - this is about three, four years ago, and I been to hospital, was taking drip, 'cause my head did partly - swell, you know, and the doctor - the doctor - uh - I don't know what they did - there just - was that bleeding form my nose and mouth, and the doctor just - I don't know what they - put me sleep, and they do th- something to my head, I ain't know, yeah [...].

Well, the people-them 'round the neighborhood call the ambulance for me. They call the ambulance. And when they did call the police, the fellows-them fled, they gone.

They cut off the light, they cut off the light and they was throwing ball, you see, it's a team was playing, and this other team didn't like how they lost, and they start throwing ball like - I was walking, coming up - on the hill, coming out. And he hit me - I had the place - some place I went with - I - had they clothes coming, and when they hit me, and I fall right back on my back. [But you weren't even involved in the game? You were just watching - standing by, right, walking by?] No, uh-huh. One pregnant woman did get hit, too, before me. [And what happened to her?] She did gotty gone to hospital. That's why you see now they build gyms to go play in.