{"id":1594,"date":"2024-10-10T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T17:32:06","slug":"13-truck-drivers-turn-heads-after-blocking-highway-to-form-safety-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"13 Truck Drivers Turn Heads After Blocking Highway To Form &#8216;Safety Net&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in April 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Detroit police received a call about a man threatening to kill himself by jumping off an overpass on the Interstate 696. Responding to the scene with negotiators, officers devised an unexpected contingency plan.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 1 a.m., Michigan State Police began flagging down semi trucks. The trucks were organized into a row beneath the bridge to reduce the distance the man would fall if he decided to jump.<\/p>\n<p>The truckers lined up across the east-bound lanes of the highway, with police closing the west-bound lanes as more semi-trucks arrived. 13 big rig truck drivers remained parked under the overpass for several hours until the man was safely escorted to a nearby hospital by police<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post added: &#8220;Also in that photo is a man struggling with the decision to take his own life. Please remember help is available through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\" data-zone-count=\"4\">\n<div class=\"not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-empty not-filled\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-c3e49727da5442cba6495e5e7821d572\" data-google-query-id=\"CNiqqt-rhIkDFdMWVQgdfSoRgA\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"m-detail--body-item m-detail--body-item-inline\">\n<figure class=\"m-video mm-video--landscape l-inline\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"F7N0n598kcU\" class=\"m-video--frame\" title=\"Trucks line up to help stop suicide attempt on Michigan freeway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F7N0n598kcU?enablejsapi=1\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/13-semi-truckers-line-up-across-detroit-highway-to-save-suicidal-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in April 2018. Detroit police received a call about a man threatening to kill himself by jumping off an overpass on the Interstate 696. Responding to the scene with negotiators, officers devised an unexpected contingency plan. Just after 1 a.m., Michigan State Police began&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}