An 82-year-old Seattle man whose walking stick was damaged when he struck a younger man who witnesses say had doused him with lighter fluid is getting a replacement cane from the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.
Gus Jones responded to the January 31 attack by smacking his assailant with his cane. Police say the attacker then ran over to two women, doused them with lighter fluid and lit a match, singeing their coats and one woman's hair. The women were not seriously injured.
The older man survived the ordeal with just a cut to his ring finger. His cane, however, was bent in the attack and rendered unusable.
"Maybe if he didn't take the action he did, more people could've been hurt," a police spokesman said. "He was going to fight back -- he wasn't going to be a passive victim."
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