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Vancouver man attacked by stranger who coughed in his face (SPH)

Colin Knowles says a stranger coughed deliberately in his face and then attacked him outside the Granville Street Skytrain station on Thursday. Knowles suffered a broken nose and lost a tooth in the assault (Photo credit: The Province)

“I think he was just a thug with a chip on his shoulder.”

A Vancouver man lost a tooth and suffered a broken nose after he stood up to a man who was deliberately coughing on people outside a downtown SkyTrain station Thursday afternoon.

“I think he was just a thug with a chip on his shoulder who was out messing with people,” Colin Knowles, 46, said of his attacker.

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He spent some time searching, unsuccessfully, for the missing tooth on the Granville Street sidewalk before walking to the St. Paul’s Hospital, where he was patched up and underwent a CT scan.

Click here to read the full story on The Province.