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Like he does most Saturday mornings, Morty White met three others for breakfast at Eddy’s Quick Lunch on Montreal Road at 8 last week — hardly an hour when danger should be lurking.

Afterwards, just before 9, he was pulling into the parking lot of the Scotiabank just a couple of blocks away. Quick stop at the ATM, off he went toward his white Subaru in the side parking lot. That’s when the first punch landed. Down he went.

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“The next thing I remember, it’s 9:30 and I’m in an ambulance.”

White, 74, is still recovering from injuries he suffered in what appears to be a random attack on Vanier’s main street in broad daylight.

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Broken nose, black eyes, bruises and swelling on the back of his head, a fractured pelvis, ribs either broken or bruised — in layman’s language, he looks like someone beat the crap out of him.

And here’s the odd thing: he wasn’t robbed, didn’t lose a nickel. The only things missing were his eye glasses (later retrieved by a police officer) and his hearing aids.