Massachusetts loon pulls knife on jogger without face mask

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A Massachusetts dad was so enraged that a jogger wasn’t wearing a face mask, he pulled a knife on the guy and ordered him to cross the street, police said.

Michael Nichols, 43, was arrested Thursday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon following an investigation into the April 20 incident, police said.

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Nichols and his two kids were walking along a sidewalk when he allegedly pulled out a knife and told the jogger to cross the street. The 29-year-old man, also of Cambridge, later told detectives he was about 30 to 40 feet away from Nichols at the time, according to a police report.

“Get the f— on the other side of the street,” Nichols said, the jogger told police.

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Once back at his home, the suspect admitted “telling someone to cross the street in order to keep distance” from his family, but denied pulling out a knife. No weapon was found during a subsequent search, police said.

A knife with a 4-inch silver blade and a 5-inch handle was found, however, on top of a large trash bag on a sidewalk bag near where the alleged confrontation took place, police said.

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