Quick-thinking police praised for saving bridge jumper’s life

“maxim
Oh dear,your slant on the height of the bridge brought some flack.
Never mind,just remember in future a FEW which is both a noun and adjective means :Not many or a Small number. Depends how you look at each persons idea of many and small,I suppose.”

“Standard height clearance over the highway is 5.03m (16'6"). Bridges with highway clearance below this height have signs attached warning road users of the safe clearance. There is no statutory limit governing the overall height of a load on the highway but wherever possible it should not exceed 4.93m (16'3") in order to make maximum use of the main road network.

Got this off the net - just for info.”

“Maxim . You do not know the full facts . They are not meant to be in the press and to be honest I feel this should not have been printed . Maybe we need to concentrate on this young boys state of mind and see that he gets the help/counsilling/support that so many seem to lose out on . I have read certain things he has written somewhere and he has been in turmoil for a while . We do NOT know why he did it and do NOT know what was going through his mind . But at the end of the day he is still alive and hopefully having the help he needs . As for the emergency services WELL DONE I say they saved a life . This must have been traumatic and frustrating for them too . However ( and I couldnt do it) it is part of their job . Thankfully we have them there in sistuations like this .
Rummour is awful to listen to . And I feel also this should not have been printed in the press . Unless someone has suffered and never known where to turn where they feel their life is not worth living YOU DON`T know what he was feeling . He obvioulsy never thought he had a life left ,to try this . Now he can get the proper help he needs and deserves and hopefully get well enough to live a life !
and by the way the bridge is around 20 foot high !!!!”

“The poor guy must have been in a desperate to state to act in this way. I sincerely hope that he gets all the help and support that he requires.

As for the emergency services, it sounds like they did a fantastic job. Well done, guys!”

“If you find an erected, street lighting post a few feet off the road let us know! Look at the picture of the bridge, it's approximately the same height as the post, therefore it is MORE than a few feet! I am so glad that the majority of comments on here are from warm hearted, compassionate readers, whose main concern is for this man and his family. I never comment on these pages but felt I had too on this occasion.”

“Sometimes the heartless responses left on this site (often by the same people) make me despair of human nature in general. I sincerely hope this poor man gets the help he needs and doesn't come across these comments. To be in that terrible situation must be awful and his poor family must be so grateful that the emergency services were able to help. Congratulations to all those that helped. At least there are some kind people out there!”

“I stick by my original post. The story is very badly written as it contains no comprehensible account of what happened. It is the duty of the journalist to take the information gleaned from different sources and use it to construct a narrative. This has not been done here.

What was the sequence of events? Was the man struggling with the police, broke free and then jumped? Was he struggling with the police after he hit the ground? What happened exactly? I find it ridiculous that with so many witnesses no one seems able to construct an account of this incident.

And by the way 'few' does not mean four it means a small number - as bridges go I stand by my original assertion that this one is only a few feet off the road.”

“I can't believe how heartless some people can be, this man must have been in a desperate state to do what he did, why on earth should the police have "taken him down and dragged him off to clink"? We don't know his circumstances! I agree with the other comments on here and hope he gets the help he obviously needs. Well done to all who helped him. Oh by the way, the bridge is high enough to allow large articulated lorries to go under, so it is far higher than "a few feet"!”

“maxim
More than a FEW feet(Few is four just as couple is two) the bridge is at least 20 feet from the ground.
The term rescue is part of the neighbours response to the situation perhaps not the correct term but then what do you say in a traumatic scene?”

“I agree with maxmin in regard the reporting/writing of this article. I would also question the sense that, ''the matter was peacefully resolved'' when someone had just landed on the ground having thrown himself of a bridge. Resolved would be used in regard to conflict and apart from emotional conflict, which wouldn't have been resolved, there being no other person on the scene to engage in said 'conflict' there would have been no issues that could have been ''peacefully resolved''.”