Brandon Wheat Kings players prevent a possible suicide

[Puppet Guy]

How about a GOOD news story from junior hockey?

Good on these boys.

Four Brandon Wheat Kings successfully interceded to help a distressed man who was contemplating suicide on the First Street bridge Tuesday evening.

After volunteering at Samaritan House earlier in the evening, Brandonites Calder Anderson and Nolan Ritchie were showing British Columbia products Jake Chiasson and Ben Thornton around the city when Ritchie spotted the man standing on one of the cement abutments for light poles between the north- and south-bound bridges around 9 p.m.

Ritchie, who was driving south, pointed it out.

“The other guys in the car told me to turn around and we went back, heading north over the bridge,” Ritchie said. “He was sitting there and pointing down at us and we were like ‘That’s kind of weird.’”

They didn’t know if there was a gap in the middle between the bridges, so Anderson stuck his head out the back window and confirmed there was. They made another U-turn, heading south again, and this time stopped about 20 feet from the man and Ritchie put on his four-way flashers.

https://www.brandonsun.com/local/202...man-off-bridge

[Murph]

With what passes for daily news nowadays, I’ll take all the stories like this that I can get.

Thanks for posting Puppet.