Two San Francisco nudists save man from being attacked in street by a “crazy kind of pirate guy"with a blowtorch

[FloridaManJefe]

why is attacker described as “Pirate-type Guy”?
tl;dw… did he have an eyepatch? a parrot? peg leg?
don’t disparage pirates as torch-carrying berserkers when the gentleman is a common miscreant criminal.

there are standards, yo ho!