A Syracuse University student encountered a man masturbating in his dark blue sedan in the 700 block of Ostrom Avenue Monday evening.

The man asked the student for directions to downtown Utica, and when the student saw what the man was doing, he yelled that he was just asking for directions and sped away, the student said.

SU Department of Public Safety and the Syracuse Police Department both responded to the call.

This incident isn’t the only one of its kind, said Vahidin Zagorica, a DPS officer.

‘That’s not the only one. There are more cases of this around the whole area,’ he said. ‘We don’t really see that very often, but students should report anything that doesn’t look right.’

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