Nepal man leads slow chase


A college student from the country of Nepal did not stop for a Monroe County sheriff's deputy on US-23 early Monday because he said police cars in his native country do not have lights and sirens so he didn't know what to do.

Speeds did not exceed 55 mph in a 70 mph zone as the deputy tried several times to get the driver to stop. Finally, after about five miles, police placed Stop Sticks on the highway, which flattened the man's tires. He then was arrested and lodged in the county jail.

The incident began about 12:30 a.m. when Deputy Ryan Sottile spotted the man standing in the grassy median of the highway near Rauch Rd. The man, 36, was urinating, reports said.

He told the deputy that he was visiting friends in Detroit and trying to return to Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, where he is a student, before becoming lost. The man produced legal documents, including a Nepalese driver's license.

The deputy told the man to wait in his car while he checked things out. Then, reports said, the officer watched as the man put his car into gear and moved up about 20 feet. The deputy moved his cruiser up and warned the man over a loudspeaker not to leave.

Seconds later, the man drove off. They headed north while driving 15 mph below the speed limit. Reports said Deputy Sottile tried several times to coax the man over, but he kept driving.

After about five miles, the Stop Sticks were deployed and the man's car came to a stop. When asked why he wouldn't pull over, the student said he thought the officer was going to follow him home. He said he didn't know what the flashing lights and siren meant because police cars in Nepal were not equipped with such devices.

The man told deputies he has lived in the United States for two years. Reports also said he had not been drinking alcohol.


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Ha ha.. Great.. I believe the guy... He has no reason to run... But he sure is an idiot... Just glad that he did not get hurt or anything..

I think he was trying to play dumb and provoke sympathy by stating how backward Nepal is.

sounds like Sardar joke. hehehe! The man who lived in the US for two years...

I believe him when he said that he did not know what the flashing lights meant.. Actually, I was also stopped once by a cop car with flashing lights and I did not know what it meant either.. I thought he was tring to overtake so I slowed down and drove close to the curb but the bas..tard would not go. So I gathered I had to stop to see what was going on. Only then I discovered I was meant to stop. The whole thing happened within like 50 meters so it was not a big deal..

MillionDollars, I hope it was not after 2 years you had lived in US.

Did they check his background? He has someone in Nepal Army or British Army or any kind of arm force?That may be likely coz what we have in genes hardly goes and u never know about the mutation....where it leads u and when it surfaces....long after u come to this earth orrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

hahhaahhahha

i believe that's his smartness becuase he does not want to get trouble while driving without US licence.
long time ago, my friend ignored stop sign while he was driving and got pulled over by cops but he got big excuse becuase he was saying to officer no english ...no english all the times...!!!

The morons are the ones who think he is innocent.
okay, granted he didn't know what the lights meant (hard to believe but possible), but what about all the announcements that the cop made ("coaxed the man to stop"), he doesn't understand english either? Even if he didn't understand what he was saying, If the cop is shouting, do you run??
The biggest "D-uh", is the fact why did he run while the cop asked him to wait in his car.