Posted on 01/17/2015 6:26:18 PM PST by proxy_user
The caddie for Robert Allenby said the Australian golfer was kidnapped from a bar Friday night in Honolulu, beaten and robbed before being dropped off in a park more six miles away.
Allenby's caddie, Mick Middlemo, told Golf Channel's Steve Sands that Allenby was in a wine bar near Waikiki with Middlemo and another friend. Neither Middlemo nor the unidentified friend was with the Aussie at the time of the alleged kidnapping.
Allenby sustained significant facial injuries and was robbed of his wallet, cell phone, cash and credit cards, according to Middlemo.
Allenby, 43, missed the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii after rounds of 71-71. He was planning to fly back to the U.S. mainland on Saturday morning.
According to Middlemo, Allenby awoke groggy and with no recollection of what had happened to him. He was picked up in the park by a retired military individual and returned to the Kahala Hotel, where he had spent the week near Waialae Country Club.
Upon speaking with Middlemo and his friend Saturday morning, Allenby began to piece together the events of Friday night and returned to the wine bar with police to review surveillance footage.
I find it hard to believe that a famous golfer could be kidnapped from an upscale, high-class wine bar by a bunch of thugs who were only after his wallet and cell phone. Nobody in the bar saw anything? Usually, places where the well-off tourists hang out are careful that this sort of thing doesn't happen.
I wonder whether the police are taking Allenby's story at face value, or whether they're investigating him too.
Comments from experienced travelers to resort areas are solicited.
Any bets on what the suspects look like? This is Hawaii so that might add a wrinkle.
Sounds like he got rolled by a hooker and her pimp.
I researched him. He is divorced, no known girlfriend.
Waikiki is a zoo.
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Native Hawaiians can be quite hostile to outsiders. Sounds as if he was drugged to me. I guess roofies work in anybody’s drink, whether to take advantage of a female or to beat and rob a male.
You kind of lost me there. I looked him up - hasn't won a PGA event in over 10 years, career record is 4 wins.
It’s easy to get rolled as a haole in Hawaii, especially along Waikiki.
His lifetime winnings on the tour are $27 million. He had a lot of top-10s in his prime. If he invested his money properly, he is plenty rich, even after the divorce.
Has anyone called McGarrett and the Five-0 squad yet?
At some point a drunken sailor came up to me and told me how he had been rolled by a prostitute. I can't remember anything else about the conversation.
I'm assuming that Allenby got propositioned, separated himself from his friends, and then got mugged by her or her associates.
I'm thinking his friends know more than they are letting on.
In any case, I felt perfectly safe walking along the beach at Waikiki even at that late hour. As long as you're not drunk and you stay away from dark corners it's a generally safe place to be. Certainly safer than the Bahamas or other islands in the Caribbean where the tourist spots are separated from abject poverty by a single block.
Was it you that rolled him?
I am thinking that the cops will kind of suspect what happened, especially if stuff like that had happened at that bar before.
As I said, usually high-class places know who the hookers are, and don’t let them come in and solicit the patrons.
Ripping them off is one thing but beating and dumping them? Especially the kind of "them" that will end up making headlines?
Not usual.
Good thing he didn’t get killed.
Well, considering that, I’ll bet it was Bill Cosby!
Anyone know the name of the wine bar?
Back in the fifties, I lived in Waikiki. I was ten years old and had the run of the place as long as I was home in time for dinner. I don’t think that there is a mother alive who would let her kid to that these days.
Maybe Tiger Woods or Obama went after the wrong guy.
Didn’t Dog the Bounty Hunter chase down a Tongan?
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