Corner BYOB in Hampden holds benefit for employee injured in bicycle crash

[B' Spokes: I ran across this bit late for the fundraiser but we wish Michael Cassidy a speedy recovery.]
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By Larry Perl, Baltimore Sun

Riding his bike home from work at the Hampden restaurant Corner BYOB, Michael Cassidy took more than a nasty spill.

A wheel of Cassidy's bike hit a manhole or metal plate on lower Falls Road south of Woodberry Aug. 24, according to restaurant owner Cecille Fenix.

"He basically fell off his bike. He hit his head," Fenix said. "The doctors are trying to tell him to stay as motionless as possible," she said, until his injuries heal.

The 31-year-old waiter and head of the dining room staff, who has been on staff since last winter, fractured the occipital condyle bone at the lower back of his skull, millimeters from his spine, and also tore an artery that supplies oxygen to the brain.
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