A 62-year-old Brooklyn resident who was preparing to jump off a ledge on the Verrazano-Narrows bridge on Tuesday told police officers that "nobody could help him." Fortunately, the officers refused to listen to him. And, after more than an hour of talking, the man finally stepped back and officers were able to attach a harness and get him down to safety.
A maintenance crew had already started talking to the man when Bridge and Tunnel Officer Eric Suky arrived on the scene Tuesday morning, CBS New York reports.
"You just kind of had to try and empathize with his state of despair," Suky told the Staten Island Advance. "In my experience, it's just finding the common ground."
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