A NEW YORK man who confronted some rowdy subway performers was attacked with his own hula hoop overnight after standing up to defend an older couple who had declined to donate to the dancers.

According to the New York 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 the 14th Street station in Manhattan.

media_camera A hula hoop was used to beat a man (not pictured) who had tried to defend an elderly couple in a New York subway station. Picture: iStock

“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 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 Brooklyn 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, police said.

This story originally appeared in the New York Post and is reprinted with permission.

Originally published as Man bashed with own hula hoop