Lone Nepali Gorkha who subdued 40 train robbers

Republica [Nepal] ^ | 2011-01-13 04:00:00 | MANOJ ADHIKARI/SANTOSH POKHAREL

[archy]

During the Falklands the Ghurkas went out each night and decapitated a few solders in their foxholes. Pretty soon the Argentine soldiers flat out refused to do outpost duty at night, and the Brits could move about at will in the dark.

Not quite. The Argentines own propaganda bit them in the a$$. They had portrayed the Gurkhas serving in the British Army as being savage cannibals, in hopes that the Argie conscript troops would eliminate them without mercy. Instead they were terrified at the prospect of close-quarters combat with the Gurkhas, and when the Ghurkhas of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Gurkha Rifles finally moved in on the Argentine positions at , the young Argentine troops surrendered. Smart move.

One Gurkha was killed during the Falklands, a rifleman whose field spade set off an unexploded hand hrenade while digging a fighting position after the fighting was over. The Argentines lost 648 of their men.

[Ax]

When will this guy get the Victoria Cross?

[archy]

The Gurkha Regiment of the British Army has a fearsome reputation that is well deserved. They are currently fighting in Afghanistan.

Indeed, less one of their number who managed to get himself in a spot of bother.

[Cicero]

Great story. Amazing.

[archy]

When will this guy get the Victoria Cross?

Never. He's in the service of the Army of India, not Great Britain. The current Maoist Nepali government is working to end British recruitment in Nepal.

[NonValueAdded]

They should make him an Honorary Texas Ranger. one riot; one ranger

[Teflonic]

He still finds it hard to believe that he took on 40 armed robbers alone. “They may have feared that more of my army friends were traveling with me and fled after fighting me for around 20 minutes,” he explained.

You have to know he went into that fight fully expecting to die rather than have that girl raped in front of him. For his skill and fitness to have carried him alive through a 20 minute fight against an armed mob is incredible! Wish there were a video of the fight but I'm sure Bollywood has a movie in the works already.

[archy]

They should make him an Honorary Texas Ranger

We should make him a Border Patrolman.

Him and about 20,000 of his pals.

[NonValueAdded]

I don’t think you’d need that many.

[JRandomFreeper]

Wouldn't mind having a few Montagnards as well.

/johnny

[tbd108]

I’ve seen these people sitting by themselves guarding hotels in India. They are considered so dangerous that only one is needed to do the trick. Also, it is known that if one is attacked, the Gorkhas from a hundred miles around come quickly looking for who it was that was fool enough to go after their own.

[Last Dakotan]

Wish there were a video of the fight but I'm sure Bollywood has a movie in the works already.

Starring Chuck Norris!

[Redbob]

"I don’t think you’d need that many.

Maybe not, but we'd find a good use for the 19,000 left over!
LOL!

[heartwood]

Good chance the bandits were communist terrorists, in Nepal.

[Redcloak]

Think of all the loot they could have walked off with had they just left that one girl alone.

[archy]

Wouldn't mind having a few Montagnards as well.
/johnny

Nungs.

[archy]

Good chance the bandits were communist terrorists, in Nepal.

Concur.

[archy]

You have to know he went into that fight fully expecting to die rather than have that girl raped in front of him.

You'll hear them say Better to die than be a coward.

They live by it.

[piytar]

Thought you’d appreciate this thread, Comedian...

[Texas Fossil]

It is never drawn that is does not taste blood.