When a man on a motorway bridge in Michigan was threatening to jump off, trucks lined up underneath to prevent a suicide attempt.
The Michigan State Police came up with the ingenuous plan of calling in passing trucks to pull up and park under the bridge to prevent a fatal fall.
The trucks stayed for several hours as police negotiators talked to the man on the bridge who finally walked away safely on Tuesday morning.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/nine-simple-words-stopped-man-jumping-londons-waterloo-bridge/19/10/
