Trolley man: Funds surge in Melbourne's destitute legend

                     Trolley man: Funds surge in Melbourne's destitute legend                  

                          A subsidizing effort has raised nearly A$100,000 (£55,000; $72,000) to help a vagrant who attempted to stop a blade using assailant in Melbourne by slamming him with a shopping trolley.

Michael Rogers, named "Trolley Man" on the web, was recorded on Friday attempting to keep Hassan Khalif Shire Ali from cutting two cops.

The suspect had just executed a bistro proprietor and harmed two other individuals.

He was later shot by police and passed on in healing center.

At the point when found by columnists, Mr Rogers, 46, told 7 News: "I tossed the trolley directly at him, and I got him. I didn't exactly get him down, however."

At the time he was just meters from a consuming auto brimming with gas barrels, which the aggressor had set land close Bourke Street, a bustling street in the downtown area.