A Brooklyn man who confronted some rowdy panhandling performers was attacked with his own hula hoop Sunday after standing up to defend an older couple who had declined to donate to the dancers, he told The Post.
A bandaged Jean-Loup Wolfman said he had just given his unidentified assailants a dollar when one of the men turned on a “tiny” elderly couple as the train pulled into 14th Street-Union Square station.
“There was a tiny Jewish couple there and the one guy starts screaming at them, ‘I will knock that beanie off your head!'” the frazzled 48-year-old said as he was escorted away from the Transit District 4 Station by paramedics.
“I stepped in and I was like ‘Back up’ and the guy just turned on me and said, ‘I will f–k you up! I will f–k you up!'” the Fort Greene resident and fellow street performer explained.
“I tipped him a dollar,” he continued. “When they wanted to fight me, I got out my hula hoop and I asked them to have a dance-off.”
“He took my hula hoop, and he hits me with it and I started screaming,” Wolfman said, gesturing at his wrapped head, which still sported a visible gash.
The fight somehow made its way onto the platform, where Wolfman continued screaming for police.
“He took my guitar and threw it down the stairs,” the performer lamented. “The one guy left and the second guy was like, ‘You better stop screaming or I will f–k you up!'”
His assailants remained at large Sunday evening, authorities said.