He had no script in his pocket, and was so absorbed by the moment that he cannot recall his precise words. “I said: ‘Don’t do it. We love you, my heart,’ something like that.”
Whatever he said, his words were a plank that brought him to the young man.
“In one second, only in a second, I just moved and grabbed like this” — his right arm curled like a shepherd’s crook — “and I keep him with me,” Mr. De Leon said. “He started to see reality. He was crying. I tried to calm him down.”
A pedestrian unnoticed by Mr. De Leon had also seen the young man perched on the ledge; it was he who had clicked the cellphone picture. When Mr. De Leon grabbed the young man, the man with the phone went from bystander to co-rescuer. Together, he and Mr. De Leon hauled the distraught man over the railing, to the safety of the pathway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/nyregion/on-bridge-a-quick-thinking-cyclist-saves-a-life-on-the-ledge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
What struck me is yet another story where someone first stopped to take a pic with their phone before attempting to stop someone from killing themselves.
There were several phone videos taken on the plane that crashed in Dubai recently and was getting smoky. I admit that I take pics and videos with my phone frequently, but if I was on a plane that was getting smoky and the flight attendant was yelling at us to get off, I would NOT make a video. Neither would I stop to take a pic of someone about to jump to their death.
Whatever he said, his words were a plank that brought him to the young man.
“In one second, only in a second, I just moved and grabbed like this” — his right arm curled like a shepherd’s crook — “and I keep him with me,” Mr. De Leon said. “He started to see reality. He was crying. I tried to calm him down.”
A pedestrian unnoticed by Mr. De Leon had also seen the young man perched on the ledge; it was he who had clicked the cellphone picture. When Mr. De Leon grabbed the young man, the man with the phone went from bystander to co-rescuer. Together, he and Mr. De Leon hauled the distraught man over the railing, to the safety of the pathway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/nyregion/on-bridge-a-quick-thinking-cyclist-saves-a-life-on-the-ledge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
What struck me is yet another story where someone first stopped to take a pic with their phone before attempting to stop someone from killing themselves.
There were several phone videos taken on the plane that crashed in Dubai recently and was getting smoky. I admit that I take pics and videos with my phone frequently, but if I was on a plane that was getting smoky and the flight attendant was yelling at us to get off, I would NOT make a video. Neither would I stop to take a pic of someone about to jump to their death.
