For those going to McCarren Park this summer, be warned: Dodgeball can kill you.

Justin Calicchio, 23, and his pals were playing dodge ball in Carroll Park in Brooklyn when he was clobbered by a broken branch.

"I blacked out," he said last night from his bed in Lutheran Hospital. "Everything is starting to become clear again. My girlfriend has been telling me about it and I'm starting to remember now."

 

A "traumatized" Calicchio said he was happy to be alive and thanked his rescuers, who told him he was inches away from more serious injuries.

"I'm like, 'What the hell?' There's never been anything like this to happen to me before," he told The Daily News.

 

you mean acb's friend.

I only said hipster because it was referred to that on Deadspin by commenters with a much less nuanced understanding of the definition of hipster. I sincerely apologize if I offended anyone by using the term.