Posted on 11/11/2021 1:35:42 AM PST by markomalley
A US diplomat fled into the Yongsan Garrison after allegedly hitting a taxi from behind while driving in Seoul earlier this week and has since been refusing to cooperate with a police investigation, officials said on Thursday.
The diplomat, whose identity is not known, was suspected of rear-ending the taxi's bumper while changing lanes near the Namsan No. 3 tunnel in central Seoul at 5.35 p.m. Wednesday, but left the site without stopping to deal with the accident, reports Yonhap News Agency.
The taxi's driver chased the diplomat's car to Yongsan Garrison Gate 3.
Police also arrived at the gate and tried to identify the diplomat, but the diplomat and three other passengers refused to cooperate with all police requests, including a breathalyzer test, without even opening a window of the car and entered the base, officials said.
The base is off limits to police, and the diplomat could not be apprehended due to diplomatic immunity.
Police said they sent a request to the US Embassy on Thursday asking for its cooperation with the case.
"We plan to decide on the charges after seeing the statement of the US diplomat," a police official said.
Scumbag diplomats destroying relations one working guy at a time.
Was definitely drunk.
Proof?
Wow, U.S. diplomats and their families can’t drive well. Two years ago the wife of a diplomat had a hit and run death in the U.K and fled the country.
30 proof breath.
related story. A college friend, in a time of chemical inebriation, admitted to stealing a car and driving through a market window and the accident lead to the death of his passenger and a bystander. He was 13 (1980) and it happened in a 3rd world country. His parent, a high ranking diplomat at the time, was ordered out of the country by the next morning and the incident never was never attached to him. During the time I knew him, the SOB was arrested at least two other times that I know of and in each of them, he waved his diplomatic passport in the face of the cops.
Diplomatic immunity needs to be waived in criminal cases IMO. If you can’t do it here, you can’t do it there.
Proof from where? Your rectum?
Waive diplomatic immunity and hand him over. If the Koreans want to assume he was drunk and punish accordingly, I’m good with it.
That’s what I thought - from your rectum and a personal insult to boot. How liberal of you.
Yawn. Bad troll.
I worked the communication center at Yongsan Garrison for a year.
Quite the place.
There was a similar case several years ago in which a US diplomat in Russia was involved in an accident that severely injured a Russian. Incidentally, this diplomat was one of my best friends in high school and college. He was suspected of driving drunk, but the State Department whisked him away.
However, Russia’s FSB, successor to the KGB was on his tail and the victim filed a civil suit against him. But the State Department had his back and got him an assignment in the Sinai, where he was momentarily safe, but then they transferred him back to the States, where he lived under a pseudonym.
One day he went to a dry cleaner to clean and used his real name, and FSB agents popped out and served him with the lawsuit. The incident finally ended happily for him because the suit went to trial in Federal court—and he beat the rap.
“You know who you got here the famous Whiplash Hwang. He’s the fall-down king of Korea. Professional accident victim. He pretends to let a jeep bang into him. Then he gets whatever he can for it. He was a farmer before the war, and then he had to hit the road... literally.”
“Whiplash Hwang. He’s the fall-down king of Korea. Professional accident victim. He pretends to let a jeep bang into him. Then he gets whatever he can for it. He was a farmer before the war, and then he had to hit the road... literally.””
Very common in Korea.
Since the vast majority of diplomats being appointed are gay, it should not be surprising that someone got rear ended.
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