PASADENA - A woman who wanted to end her life after losing her job was pulled to safety off the Colorado Street Bridge by police officers Tuesday morning, officials said.
Pasadena police responded to the massive concrete bridge around 5:30 a.m. after receiving a call from a driver about a distraught woman on the bridge, according to Lt. Keith Jones.
When police arrived the woman had all but one leg over the bridge, Jones said. The first officer, a sergeant, approached the woman from behind so she couldn't see him while another officer talked with her to distract her, Jones said.
The woman told the officer she was depressed because she just lost her job, her house is in foreclosure and she thought she had nothing to live for, Jones said.
Within minutes the sergeant grabbed her leg and about four other officers grabbed other body parts to pull her over the ledge, Jones said.
Jones would only describe the woman as being in her 50s. She was taken to a local hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, he said.
The Colorado Street Bridge is known as the "suicide bridge" after the dozens of people who have committed suicide off the bridge.
3 comments:
word on the street is that it got its name back during the deperession when everyone was losin jobs and couldnt afford their fams....scary shit. history repeats itself. damn.
Yeah man, Even with Obama in office its gonna take more than 4 years to get back on track. Shit maybe more than 8. I was reading something that crime will get worse, the financial sector really hasn't affected you and I. We wont see the true effect until a year from now.
Yes Scary Shit!
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