Golfer Robert Allenby nodded off and fell face first into a rock, a homeless man claims.
Allenby says he was drugged, abducted, bashed and robbed after leaving a bar in Waikiki, Honolulu, and compared the ordeal to the movie “Taken.”
But Toa Kaili told the Herald Sun only in the last of his three encounters with the golfer on the night did he have a blooded and “busted-up” face.
CCTV footage shows Allenby leaving the Amuse Wine Bar with two men and a woman he met at the club.
Kaili said he first noticed Allenby passed out on the footpath only a block away.
It took him 10 minutes to wake him and another eight minutes for Allenby to stand.
“He was beyond tipsy. This man was blitzed,” he said.
“He then started saying, ‘Where’s the other guy? You gave him the keys; to get the keys.’ I was like ‘Wooh, this dude is beyond having drinks.’”
He said Allenby then turned on him and his friend, Chris, accusing them of robbery after realizing his phone and wallet were missing.
An angry Kaili then left.
Two-and-a-half hours later, in the same spot, he again found Allenby, who did not recognize him: “He told us some punks robbed him.”
Kaili says Allenby soon again became convinced he and his friend were robbers, and began searching his bag.
“He kept on saying, ‘You know who I am’. I didn’t care because to me he was a guy passed out on the street and I was trying to help him.”
Kaili said Allenby threw a punch but missed. He left, but his friend stayed with Allenby.
Returning 30 minutes later, this time he found Allenby wiping blood off his face.
“When I asked, ‘What the hell happened?’, Chris said, ‘I tried to hail him a cab. He was rocking back and forth, nodded off and face-planted into this damn jagged rock’.”
Police, who are conducting robbery and credit card fraud investigations, have interviewed Mr Kaili, who denies any wrongdoing, and are still waiting to interview Chris.
Homeless woman Charade Keane, who got a $1,000 reward from Allenby for helping him, was taciturn Wednesday.
“I’m tired. I can’t talk about this any more,” she told the Herald Sun.