Taco Bell worker James Earl Dean jailed for ten years for handcuffing himself to colleague... just so he could get a date

A man has been handed a ten year sentence for handcuffing himself to a colleague in a desperate attempt to get a date.

Jason Earl Dean, 25, attached himself to his 18-year-old co-worker at a Taco Bell as she left their workplace, after trying to get her attention for a month.

Mr Dean waited outside the fast-food restaurant until the woman finished her shift at 9pm and handcuffed himself to her as she tried to get into her car.

He fled after fellow staff at the fast-food restaurant in Ringgold, Georgia, heard her screaming and came to her rescue.

According to the 18-year-old, Mr Dean had been ‘making passes’ at her for a month before the August 2011 incident, trying to convince her to go out with him, Catoosa News reported.

Mr Dean was on the run for two days before police arrested him in nearby Dalton.

Mr Dean entered a blind guilty plea for the charge of false imprisonment and was sentenced to four years in jail and six year on probation by a judge at Catoosa County Superior Court.

He has also been ordered not to have any contact with the victim or her family.

‘It's a split sentence,' Lookout Mountain assistant district attoey Alan Norton said.

'Four years is to be served in the department of corrections, while the remainder is to be served on probation with specific conditions.'

Despite being sentenced on Monday, Mr Dean, has been using his Twitter account to post YouTube videos he likes, and yesterday he posted appreciation for Avril Lavignes ‘Happy Ending’.

Pursuit: Mr Dean met the 18-year-old at the Taco Bell where they worked and handcuffed himself to her after she repeatedly spued his advances (file photo)

A few days earlier he shared Bridgit Mendler’s Ready or Not, which includes the poignant lyrics, ‘ready or not, here I come … I will find you’.

Before his incarceration in Catoosa County jail upon entering his plea in September, Mr Dean frequently tweeted young stars such as former face of the Disney Channel Selena Gomez, Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice and singer Jordan Pruitt begging them to meet him.