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Dr. John Robbed and Injured
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Posted by: host 12/15/2005
On Sunday, December 11th I attended a football (soccer) game in a poor bario outside of Panama City. Normally, I travel with one or two volunteers but on sunday I travelled alone. For forty minutes I filmed my work with teenagers at the game, talking about AIDS and passing out my Spanish information cards. The response as always was overwhelmingly positive because young people here do not get any significant medical information about HIV prevention. So they have a lot of curiosity about the information. I talked to parents as well as teenagers and many mothers were very concerned about their children's sexual activity and the possibility of AIDS. Approaching the end of my outreach I was signaled by a man of about thirty to come over to his car. I went and the man said that he was worried that he had Aids and what should he do. I advised him that he should go to a clinic and be tested. At that moment he suddenly reached for my video camera that was strapped to my hand. He grabbed it and pulled it into the window of his car and my hand and arm followed. At that moment he stepped on the gas and the car lurched forward. I tried to get my hand out of the camera strap and I hit him in the face with my other hand. The car was starting to go fast and dragged me a few feet; then I was thrown to the ground and the wheel nearly missed my elbow and forearm. In a second the car was gone up the street. People immediately started running from the football field to where I was lying on the ground. There was an off-duty policeman at the game and he got on his walkie-talkie and called the police. One of the teenagers I had spoken to help me up from the ground and another teen took some napkins to stop the bleeding on my arm where the car had hit me. The police of Panama City did a wonderful job of helping me. We drove through neighborhood streets looking for the car and when we saw a possible match a policeman would jump out and put his hand on the car to see if it was hot from being on. At one point, with sirens on, they pursued a car down the highway (with me in the back seat) but it was not the robber.

I went to the main station and looked at a number of photos and found two possible matches for the robber. Then they took me to a medical clinic to get bandaged and to check on my arm. In a few minutes I will have X-rays to see if there was any further damage done to it.

This has delayed my return home by three days
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