The Unluckiest Guy On The Face Of The Earth

Leave it to the unluckiest guy on the face of the earth to hit on a gang of lesbians with steak knives:

Dwayne Buckle picked the wrong woman to hit on.

When he stopped Patreese Johnson, 19, on a West Village street corner early yesterday to tell her she was “pretty,” she stabbed him in the stomach with a steak knife, authorities said.

Then her six pals — all lesbians, according to family and friends — joined in on the attack, cops said.

Terrain Daindridge, 19, of East Orange, N.J., and Newark women Venice Brown, 18, Renata Hill, 24, Chenese Loyal, 19, Lania Daniels, 21, and Khamysha Coates, 31, were apprehended a block away and arrested with Johnson on charges of attempted murder and gang assault, police said. The knife also was recovered.

The women were all charged early today with attempted second-degree murder, two counts of assault and gang assault. None of them posted the $50,000 cash bail imposed by the judge.

Buckle, an independent filmmaker who turns 29 next week, was at St. Vincent’s Hospital in critical condition.

“He recently broke up with his girlfriend and told me he was looking for someone,” said a friend, who co-produced Buckle’s first feature film, “The Minority.”

“He has always had very bad luck,” she said. “But he’s not the kind of guy who would ever cause trouble.”

The gang of women has often been taunted and harassed for being gay, friends and relatives said.

“They go out with a group so they don’t run into friction with a man that doesn’t understand,” said a cousin of one of the women, who did not want to be identified.

Then again, as more details emerge, the victim doesn’t seem totally blameless:

Buckle, a sound technician and film director, was walking home from a friend’s house at around 2 a.m. when he encountered the group of about six women.

One of them caught his eye — she was feminine and beautiful, he said, and stood out from the group.

“I said ‘hi’ and, ‘How are you doing?’ ” he said.

Patreese Johnson, 19, didn’t reply — but her girlfriend did.

“The fat girl just started yelling at me,” he said. “She cursed me out.”

Buckle told Johnson’s girlfriend that he hadn’t been talking to her, but the Newark woman continued hollering insults.

Outside the IFC Center movie theater on Sixth Avenue, Buckle suddenly was surrounded.

“Another girl started dissing me,” he said. “She told me my sneakers were cheap.”

One of the women shook her fist in his face and spit on him, he said.

“I spit back on her,” he said.

Then all hell broke loose, and the gang removed their belts — letting loose on the Jamaica, Queens, man with a furious barrage of punches, kicks and slaps, he said.

Buckle described his attackers as “half girls and half men.”