The wheels on the party bus go round and round after knock out game on Canal St.

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As Allen and four friends were walking down Canal Street around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, they noticed passengers inside a party bus heckling a woman on the side of the road who appeared to be homeless, Allen and other witnesses said. “There were girls screaming ‘F--- you’ non-stop to this defenseless homeless lady. Pretty much just poking a stick at her verbally to get her really on edge for no reason,” said Sarvenaz Chaichian, one of the college friends. Allen walked over to the woman and told the group to stop, said Chaichian. She could not remember what he specifically said to the hecklers. Allen said he suffered memory loss that impaired his recollection of events.

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Nearly two dozen people, who the Colorado group said all appeared to be teenage boys, then spilled from the bus. The boys made their way with clenched fists over to the five tourists, who now stood near the entrance of Starbucks at Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue, Chaichian said. The argument between the two groups quickly escalated into violence. As the college friends were walking away, one of the men approached Allen from behind and clocked him straight in the right temple, Chaichian said. He tumbled face first into the pavement.

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After viewing her bloodied friend on the sidewalk, Chaichian ran to take a photo of the vehicle’s license plate and screamed at the others to call 911. Upon hearing the plea, the group of teens rushed back onto the bus and drove off, according to Gabrielle Lee, Allen’s girlfriend who was among the five person group. The party bus circled the scene two more times as Allen lay unconscious, his friend Matt Wasserman nursed a bruised eye and blood dripped from the head of the woman whom the bus passengers had heckled, reported Lee.

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Antoine Lee of Tweezy Entertainment confirmed that he was driving the black bus at the time of the altercation. Reached by phone, he said at least 30 people were aboard the bus that night and the attackers did not re-board the bus following the incident, so he returned to the scene in order to pick up any stragglers. “I can’t really say what went down. I don’t have authority to tell them what they can do off the bus," he said. “I pay attention to the road."

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