In a two-ton example of irony — Cory Brown was on his way to get a tattoo that represented being on the right path in life when he was struck by a car.
Brown, 34, was traveling down Franklin Street, near Cheeseman Park, on the morning of Oct. 24, riding an electric unicycle he had fallen in love with five years prior. As he crossed an intersection, he was struck by a car, leaving him with a plethora of injuries from a fractured pelvis to a dislocated shoulder, lacerated spleen and damaged kidneys, among others.
“I looked over just moments before the vehicle hit me, just long enough to process that my day was about to go really bad,” Brown chuckled, still in high spirits despite the laundry list of injuries and nearly six months of physical therapy still left ahead of him.
“It was immediately apparent that I had done some damage,” Brown added.
Both the driver and a group of passersby stopped to call the ambulance. A police officer even stopped to tell Brown, who was writhing on the ground, that he would receive a citation for running the stop sign, according to Brown.