Bus Driver Coaxes Suicidal Woman Off Bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAhpt0-Dmls

After lifting the woman, who is said to be in her twenties, over the rail, the pair sat on the ground talking until a corrections officer and another woman who said she was a counselor approached and took over.

‘It was meant to be,’ Barton said. ‘I was supposed to be there for her at that moment and I was. I wanted to convey that whatever it was, I’m going to help you through and it’s not as serious as jumping onto the 198.

‘I feel like I did what I was supposed to do at the time,’ Barton said. ‘I’m a football guy so when you sit the bench and the coach calls your number, you gotta go in there make a play, do what the play calls for, and I think that’s what I did.’

His co-workers call him ‘Big Country’, a big man with a big heart. When he returned to the bus to finish his route, his passengers gave him a round of applause.

Sources: Youtube & Daily Mail

 

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