Russian Motorcyclist Prevents A Suicide

[jim360]

Found this rather wonderful video this morning:



(All in Russian but the gist of what he says is provided in the comments.)

[murraymints]

awww.. hope it ended well

[murraymints]

I once was woken by police at 3am to go to a flyover on the M1 as a client was threatening to jump and asked for me ! EEK.. got him down though... once he was better he would come to the office and tell everyone he'd seen me in my jammies ! lol

[Tilly2]

Oh, I want to know what happened next. Poor soul.

[jennyjoan]

Maybe I'm wrong but the suicide lad has cut his wrist as he was covering it.

[Tilly2]

Isn't it fantastic that some people are so caring?

[jim360]

A rough (google) translation of the vaption to the video suggests that:

"After the end of this video, he tried to escape from us, we ran after him. He lied that he was going to the Smolensk region... We waited for ... the police... From the moment we drove up to [him], it took no more than 10 minutes... He [sat] in the Inspectors' car and [went] with them."

So sounds like it has a fairly happy ending -- although the would-be suicide will presumably need some support in the future too.

At any rate, an uplifting video.

[Cloverjo]

Wow, I'm almost in tears. What a wonderful man the motorcyclist is, and everyone stopping on the motorway. Ooh, I need a little weep.

[anneasquith]

Nice to start the day with a " happy" ending , well done that man .

[ummmm]

Poor fella. I hope he gets the help he needs.