Woman in Bandung nearly has her finger amputated after being forced to put on wedding ring by serial proposer

Illustration. Photo: Pixabay
Illustration. Photo: Pixabay

We’re not really sure what college kids these days get up to for fun, but for one young Indonesian man, it involved going up to random women in public and proposing to them, supposedly to practice for a theatrical play and possibly taking Beyoncé’s message way too seriously.

According to police, that’s what a college student in Bandung, identified as 25-year-old DTT, had been doing with his free time. They said that DTT had been going around malls in the West Java capital and randomly approached at least five young women to ask for their hands in marriage.

It was apparently all harmless fun until the streak ended on March 12, when DTT forced a 21-year-old woman identified by the initials RS to wear a ring.

“At first the victim didn’t want to put on the ring, but because she was told that he was practicing proposing, she agreed to put it on. But because the ring was too small, it was pushed in with force and then she couldn’t take it off. The culprit then ran away,” said M Yoris Maulana, head of the Crime Investigation Unit at the Bandung Metro Police, as quoted by Liputan 6 yesterday.

RS then sought medical help. She was told by doctors at the first two hospitals she went to that her finger would have to be amputated. She then sought a third opinion at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, where they cut off the ring using a metal cutter.

After receiving a complaint from RS, the police were able to track down DTT and arrested him on the same day. The extent of the injuries RS suffered is not clear, but the police have charged DTT with assault leading to severe bodily harm, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

DTT said he meant no harm and that he was only practicing for a play that he’s a part of in college.

“So I was practicing drama and practicing proposing to women. I bought a ring that fits me, and then I put it on women,” he said.



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