Song taew driver rescued on brink of jumping from pedestrian bridge

By The Nation

 

Rescuers on Tuesday managed to prevent a man from throwing himself off a pedestrian bridge in Chon Buri’s Mueang district.

 

Rescuers from the Dham Rassamee Rat Foundation were alerted at 10.30am that a man had climbed onto the edge of a bridge over Chon Buri-bound Sukhumvit Road in Tambon Samed, and was threatening to jump.

 

After climbing onto the bridge and sneaking up close to the man, one of the rescuers managed to grab him and pull him to safety about 20 minutes later.

 

The man was identified as Prasit Thong-in, 51, the driver of a song taew – a pickup truck modified as a minibus, with two covered rows of seats in the back.

 

Prasit told rescuers that he was very worried after not being able to contact his wife for the past two days. 

 

He said he had been married for just nine months, and that he had borrowed a gold necklace for his bride to wear at the wedding. 

 

However, when he recently asked her to return it, she refused and disappeared.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30344895

 

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<deleted> hell!

Stick me in this traffic all day everyday I'd be right next to him

Poor guy.  Let's hope he can sort his mind out.

Good he got rescued I sure he will look of the bridge everyday thinking it is just gold don't die for that 

Good work to the rescue team 

Just glad he didn't have access to a high-rise

11 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Good he got rescued I sure he will look of the bridge everyday thinking it is just gold don't die for that 

Good work to the rescue team 

I think he misses his wife more than the gold.

16 hours ago, Richard Pumpaloaf said:

Just glad he didn't have access to a high-rise

Another sensitive caring soul

 

Lets hope you never suffer such mental anguish and have people like you making smart alec sneering remarks.

 

Poor guy was clearly distraught..show some respect