Posted on 04/24/2018 2:00:15 PM PDT by mowowie
The Michigan State Police organized a unique way to help a man who was threatening suicide on a highway overpass: they pulled together multiple semi truck drivers to help shorten the fall.
Tuesday morning, all lanes of 696 were closed at Coolidge in both directions as a man threatened suicide.
The first call came in a little before 1 a.m. on Tuesday as the unnamed man was on the bridge over the highway. The eastbound lanes were closed as MSP started organizing semi-truck passing through.
A few minutes later, the westbound lanes were also closed as more semis showed up to cross the highway. All told, 13 semi trucks were parked under the overpass to shorten the distance he would fall, if he were to have jumped.
Thankfully, the man did not jump and the situation ended as the man walked off the bridge. He was taken by Huntington Woods Police to Beaumont hospital for evaluation.
MSP, Huntington Woods and Oak Park police were all on scene and all had negotiators talking to the man for several hours until it ended peacefully.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox2detroit.com ...
linky no workey...
D’OH! Can’t fix stupid.
fantastic work by the cops and truckers!
i hope the suicidal person calms down now.....
we can’t be so lucky all the time to have so many helpful people assist us with our issues
Whoops.....
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/13-semis-line-detroit-freeway-to-help-man-considering-suicide
I suspect he was crying for help more than anything.
If he had jumped and injured himself on a truck some lib judge would have fined the truck owner.
Great story. I hope it has a happy/happy long term ending.
agreed.
and, he was very lucky to get all that help
(we don’t always get the help we need in this life)
helping him to commit?
It's like the best of the American people has been coming out a lot in the past few days.
I was thinking the same....
THIS is America
. . . because the suicidal guy had a “right to die.” It’s the lib thing now. (See Evans, Alfie.)
Making America proud again.
Americans, working together, can and do save lives.
Well Done to the gov‘t enployees and the truckers.
very nicely done
I believe it’s only going to get better....much to the leftists chagrin.
Around here, there have been several cases where selfish jerks have murdered innocent drivers on the expressway by jumping off of overpasses and ending up going through a windshield.
Someone threatening to jump off of an overpass onto a highway should be stopped by whatever force is necessary.
I want to see the ships do that under the bay bridge.
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