ISSUES: Gay Man Beaten Nearly Unconscious at Canadian Hot Spring!

A gay couple on a hiking trip in rural British Columbia were attacked by a stranger while relaxing at a natural hot spring, leaving one of them nearly unconscious: "Unprovoked, he was viciously beaten as he begged for mercy."

Global Saskatoon reports: Police say the attack took place in a natural hot pool at St. Leon’s Hot Springs 25 km north of Nakusp on Highway 23 on December 29th, 2010. The victim was relaxing in the hot pool with his companion, both men from Burnaby, when they were joined by two other men and a woman.

The man who identified himself as ‘Terry’ discovered the men were homosexual and allegedly told his friends he was going to kill them. As one man ran from the pool to hide, the other man was viciously beaten as he begged for mercy, suffering cuts and bruising to most of his body. He was left injured in the snow as the suspect and his two friends left on snow mobiles.