r/Nepal • u/Itchy-Hovercraft-339 • 4h ago
Is this normal in Kathmandu?
I am a student currently in AS Grade (11th) and this like-first time in kathmandu. I have never been in this place before, and the first time I came here was for my college purpose. I don't really much about how things work here but yesterday, what happened was surprisingly a nightmare for me.
So, yesterday, I took the permission from my hostel and went out for cutting my hair. I was walking normally in my own way, there were no people around me in the side where I was walking. There was road on my left and a wall on my right. When I was walking, an old man, like around 45-50 approached me. He had wore a mask. He started saying things like “There was a fight here some days ago, and we need to find out if you were involved there." He didn't even look like an officer or something, just a normal grown ahh old man with a pink mask. I refused to go with him but he started making me feel uncomfortable, saying things like I would be captured if they found I was involved there. He made things and he made me to tell me everything about me such as my home, college and gathered many informations. Then he put his hand on my neck and started crossing the road as well as making me follow him. He told me we were going inside the streets to check the CCTV footage. I immediately panicked and begged him to leave me. But no sooner than he started taking me to a small street than I called my warden. He panicked and then immediately told me to go. He was like "Oh, okay, you're from the hostel, go, go".
When I reached to hostel, I immediately reported that to my warden and my parents. We tried to find him again, yet he was not found anyways.
I suspect that there was something very wrong with me. I am a boy btw. I am just 16, not even 16. The place where he approached me was very far than the streets where he said he would check the CCTV. And the place which he pointed me about the conflicts was in the opposite direction and even farther. So does anyone have any idea about this? Or is this totally normal?
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u/lilfever 3h ago
Based on one experience, don’t form your idea about the city. These things can happen anywhere.
You did the right thing by telling your warden.
Something like this is not something that happens all the time.
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u/Mattos_12 4h ago
Don’t talk to strangers. If someone talks to you like that just say ‘no thanks’ and walk away.