spencer listened with non-imitated fascination , and was inspired to share a story of an experience he endured as a child of how he witnessed a brutal and unforgettable scene as a child of a bicyclist killed by a driverhow he wasnt wearing a helmet and that his head was cracked open like a busted-open melon , a mess of blood and brains and pieces of skull splayed out covering almost the entire intersection ; his corpse as inanimate as a crushed fruit that had dropped and began leaking its innards at large quantities .