Suicidal man was ready to jump. So 13 truckers parked under the bridge.

[Bourbon]

Law enforcement and truckers in Michigan teamed up to save the life of a suicidal man.
Police first heard of a man standing on a bridge that goes over a Detroit freeway at about 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to Fox2. So officers quickly put a plan in action to stop him from ending his life.
Lt. Mike Shaw, a Michigan State Police spokesman, told The Detroit News that his department blocked traffic on Interstate 696 and then asked truckers who had been stopped to head for the overpass.
Thirteen different trucks arrived at the scene and parked under the bridge to shorten the fall if the suicidal man decided to jump, police say. The man decided to willingly leave the bridge and police took him to a nearby hospital for evaluation.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article209701619.html

 

[Ross Dolan]

Wow.

Cool!

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

who the fuck would jump off that anyway I'd be way too scared I'd survive with a fuck ton of broken bones. You gotta golden gate it up if you are a bridge jumper.

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

who the fuck would jump off that anyway I'd be way too scared I'd survive with a fuck ton of broken bones. You gotta golden gate it up if you are a bridge jumper.

I thought the same thing. Unless he got a "lucky" fall, he won't die. Then again, he obviously wasn't in his right mind.

 

[RB 60]

I thought the same thing. Unless he got a "lucky" fall, he won't die. Then again, he obviously wasn't in his right mind.

Jumping onto a busy highway would probably be certain death, and possibly cause even more, if not just a bad accident.

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

Jumping onto a busy highway would probably be certain death, and possibly cause even more, if not just a bad accident.

I don't know, my uncle used to give me a quarter to go play on the freeway and here I am.

 

[RB 60]

I don't know, my uncle used to give me a quarter to go play on the freeway and here I am.

There's a difference between a freeway and a back country road.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

if God wanted you to jump off a bridge he wouldn't have created guns.......

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I don't know, my uncle used to give me a quarter to go play on the freeway and here I am.

"Here's a quarter, go play in the freeway"

I think he was trying to send a message? Maybe you shouldn't have taken it literally?

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

There's a difference between a freeway and a back country road.

I grew up in so cal

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

"Here's a quarter, go play in the freeway"

I think he was trying to send a message? Maybe you shouldn't have taken it literally?

Here, you can have the quarter, I never used it.

 

[evince]

I don't know, my uncle used to give me a quarter to go play on the freeway and here I am.

he would never really give a that quarter huh

 

[Cancel 2018.2]

he would never really give a that quarter huh

English please

 

[Irish Exit]

and in related news 6 homeless people sleeping under a bridge in Detroit died from carbon monoxide poisoning after 13 trucks parked in their living room

 

[Nomad]

I hate assholes who cause traffic backups.

 

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I hate assholes who cause traffic backups.

Not like it matters. 696 is closed for the rest of the year anyways.