Man wields deer antler in Seattle homeless shelter fight

WILDLIFE PARTS — Crocodile Dundee would cower!

Seattle police say a man was assaulted with a deer antler Monday afternoon at a downtown homeless shelter.

The story on seattlepi.com — although using a photo of elk antlers to illustrate the story — says the victim showed police he had a small cut on his left hand and a cut on the right side of his abdomen, both of which appeared fresh, reports say.

He told officers he asked for a cigarette from a man he knew from the “jungle,” a wooded homeless encampment on the north slope of Beacon Hill. The man refused to give the alleged victim a cigarette, to which the victim replied that “he had not forgotten what he did to him in the jungle,” police reports say.

The man “did not take kindly” to the comment and both men went inside the Compass Center, according to the reported victim. When the victim was on his way back out of the center, the man he’d spoken to reportedly ran up behind him armed with a deer antler and tried to stab him, according to police.

Seattle people may not want to get into antler fights in North Idaho. They’d be massively out-weaponed.