Right On Cue, A Strip Club Enters The Allenby Saga!
/The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce is feeling better today as the Robert Allenby kidnapping claim unravels with the shocking, stunning but slightly clichéd revelation that the Aussie went to a local strip club. He told rescuer Chris Khamis he'd been drugged. Definitely not a plot from the Taken films Allenby says he loves.
Rob Shikina in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.
Moments before Australian pro golfer Robert Allenby injured himself by passing out and hitting his head on a lava rock early Saturday, he told a homeless man that he was depressed and had been drugged at a strip club where he went to get some "action."
Nothing soothes the soul wounded by a missed cut like a lap dance!
"There was no crime (when I was present). It was his stupidity," Khamis said in an interview.
Way harsh Tai! I mean Chris.
"(Allenby) passed out and hit his head. I was there. Nobody pushed him out of a car."
This is a nice image...
But when Khamis looked back at Allenby, the golfer was on the ground, bleeding.
"There he was, I was like, 'Oh, my God!'"
Khamis said he gave Allenby a stack of napkins from his bag and tried to get Allenby to focus, but Allenby kept repeating that he was a millionaire and waved around his American Express Platinum Card.
Don't leave home without it!
This story follows a Hawaii News Now item suggesting that police are skeptical of Allenby’s story and merely searching for whoever lifted Allenby’s credit card to “buy more than $10,000 worth of goods from other stores in the Ala Moana and Ward areas, including an ABC Store and an Urban Outfitters store in Waikiki.”
Which prompted this shrewd observation from Jim Moriarty:
Allenby's cards surface at Urban Outfitters and ABC store. Police seeking oddly amused suspect in shawl cardigan and teeny fedora
— Jim Moriarty (@GWMoriarty) January 22, 2015
**The Daily Telegraph's Aleks Devic publishes the, uh, definitive retrospective of Allenby's night as seen through the eyes of Honolulu's eloquent and classily-attired homeless population. There are a few new facts but mostly it's an excellent piecing together of information that ultimately doesn't look good for Allenby.
Allenby has touted Ms Keane as his unsung hero who saved his life. Earlier this week he gave her $1000 to say thankyou. But just hours before the cash handover, he accused her of making up a story to get paid by a television network, after Ms Keane disputed some of the golfer’s claims.
Ms Keane says she was trying to negotiate on Allenby’s behalf with her two homeless neighbours, offering them $500 cash for the return of his belongings. The two deny taking anything from Allenby.
A former military medic who saw the drama unfolding took it upon himself to intervene and put Allenby in a taxi. He paid for the ride to Allenby’s hotel, after he refused to go to hospital.
“Charade is always looking out for people. She got in trouble that night by her boyfriend because she took too long to get home,” park resident Moki said.
