A Cricket man suffered a potentially serious injury during an altercation he says started when two men started talking with a lady friend he was out with. About 4 yesterday afternoon, Harold Staley says he was out with the woman, who he would not identify, and had stopped at Rock Creek BP. He says two men -- he doesn't remember their description -- started talking to her outside his car -- he doesn't indicate what about. He got out and says one of the men pushed him to the ground and pulled a knife. Staley says he grabbed the knife out of the other man's hand, cutting his palm in the process. He says the men then left. He ended up at Wilkes Regional to get stitches in his hand, the woman friend and the men long gone. When deputies tried to get him to tell more, the intoxicated Staley was uncooperative. He said he'd get the names of the men from his woman friend and take out his own warrants on them. The deputy filed the case as a possible assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and it is listed as still under investigation.

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