Man threatens to jump from Lancashire motorway bridge

A MAN threatening to jump from a motorway bridge caused police to put roadblocks in place early this morning.

The 31-year-old had clambered over the railings and was walking up and down the narrow ledge, police said.

He is now in hospital after police were able to talk him down from the bridge over the M65 at Stanhill Lane between Knuzden and Oswaldtwistle.

The incident saw a series of rolling roadblocks put in place at 6am and he was talked down within an hour.

The man is now being assessed at Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Comments(33)

alby says...
8:58am Fri 10 Sep 10

another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.

security text jump-loan: priceless

happycyclist says...
9:19am Fri 10 Sep 10

alby wrote:
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.

security text jump-loan: priceless
Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.

Chris P Bacon says...
9:44am Fri 10 Sep 10

happycyclist wrote:
alby wrote:
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.

security text jump-loan: priceless
Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!

hasslem hasslem says...
10:00am Fri 10 Sep 10

Do they all think they are Keith Harris' Orville?
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United Utilities must be putting summat in the water

happycyclist says...
10:00am Fri 10 Sep 10

Chris P Bacon wrote:
happycyclist wrote:
alby wrote:
another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money.

security text jump-loan: priceless
Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone.
Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!
Re-write the will, then send the crap relatives a letter explaining why they've been written out of the will and why it's now too late to do anything about it.

Eventually, people will start to care about those around them and will make more effort to love others rather than only giving them a thought when they're gone.

dceuk says...
10:20am Fri 10 Sep 10

happycyclist wrote:
Chris P Bacon wrote:
happycyclist wrote:
alby wrote: another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money. security text jump-loan: priceless
Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone. Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Don't be daft. What about the pressure put on the elderly or vulnerable by relatives who want a reduction in time wating to benefit from the will? All they have to do is make the person's life so miserable (that must be what it's like being around the Latin leper) they would consider the party you suggested above. Not right, won't work, won't be brought in EVER!
Re-write the will, then send the crap relatives a letter explaining why they've been written out of the will and why it's now too late to do anything about it. Eventually, people will start to care about those around them and will make more effort to love others rather than only giving them a thought when they're gone.
LOVE this one I think you have got it absolutely right

Mike Costa says...
10:41am Fri 10 Sep 10

Mike Costa says:

If it wasnt for the current government cutbacks, I would suggest that each town builds its own 'Suicide Bridge' away from everything else. Let the loosers jump to their deaths without inflicting their own personal Hell on everyone else

past it says...
11:16am Fri 10 Sep 10

Happycyclist, like the idea, Mike Costa, like the idea, but dread to think what elf n safety would have to say, "you cant do that someone may get hurt". but why build special places just have a, top your self happy hour, during the night at certain bridges, high points or water features.

CapitaBackHander says...
12:08pm Fri 10 Sep 10

What is it about this motorway? I saw an incident at Colne on same Motorway that didn't get reported. How many?
something is wrong somewhere, I know of someone who actually went to hospital saying they were having terrible thoughts and that he was going to kill himself. He was not even sectioned and infact sent on his way home. He got home and jumped out of the 10th floor towerblock and obviously proved he was right! Terrible! Maybe this is what you have to do to get the help?

pez63 says...
12:17pm Fri 10 Sep 10

He only had to go another 100 yrds and he could have jumped in kemp delph with a brick round his neck.kemp delph is a big pond in a field accross from knuzden hall with no found bottom to it,info for any more potential jumpers or for the folk who don`t no about it.Infact it is the perfect location to promote as our very own suicide spot,we could rename it kemp death.

Grizzly says...
3:30pm Fri 10 Sep 10

The security words on here are quality, and if they are random, the coincidences are uncanny!!

I love the irony of this one

"High Hope" :) you couldn't make it up!!

Grizzly says...
3:33pm Fri 10 Sep 10

I agree in principal happy, but I bet very few would use that service. This is about attention, they don't want to jump off. they just want to create panic and have someone actually pay them a little bit of attention. otherwise, if he really wanted to just kill himself, he could have necked a bottle of pills or hung himself at home. pathetic!!

Another ironic security word, 'Lazy Bone' maybe he is?!

Chris P Bacon says...
4:06pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Although he could have bought himself the same attention by standing at Turf Moor with a Blackburn scarf on and cheering t'rorvers half-time result (if the miracle occurs that sees them actually winning at that stage) or going to Ewok Park with a claret scarf on and cheering Burnley.

Chris P Bacon says...
4:06pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Although he could have bought himself the same attention by standing at Turf Moor with a Blackburn scarf on and cheering t'rorvers half-time result (if the miracle occurs that sees them actually winning at that stage) or going to Ewok Park with a claret scarf on and cheering Burnley.

Manuel Hung says...
4:33pm Fri 10 Sep 10

happycyclist wrote:
alby wrote: another one! getting a bit daft this now. Maybe we should have a designated junction and lane these selfish morons can jump off without ruining some innocent drivers life with guilt and prevent wasting police/ambulance money. security text jump-loan: priceless
Well I think there should be units at hospitals where people who are sick of life can go to off themselves painlessly without causing any inconvenience to anyone. Sign a form, get the necessary needles and drugs, administer it yourself and away you go, with no counsellors trying to talk you out of it. No mess, no investigations and hospitals are used to dead bodies.
Two of the most sensible comments ever posted on this forum
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Suicidal morons p!$$**g of everyday, hard working people with stunts like this should be given every opportunity to end their miserable existence in a controlled environment.
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T955ers!!!

Mickanwar82 says...
6:00pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Should have shot him!!!

rob_ossy says...
6:26pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Did you know they add to diverted traffic people being late for work and school because this **** hole.

Lancs Lassie says...
6:32pm Fri 10 Sep 10

nice to see that you have sympathy for people suffering from depression - do you think he did this for fun - er, I dont think so

rob_ossy says...
6:39pm Fri 10 Sep 10

this was not depression it was attention seeking looks like its working lassie

ste.g says...
6:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10

i think its time they started jailing these timewasters maybe then they will think twice before applying their attention seeking ways.

Chris P Bacon says...
7:05pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Lancs Lassie wrote:
nice to see that you have sympathy for people suffering from depression - do you think he did this for fun - er, I dont think so
There's genuine people suffering from depression and head-the-balls suffering from a demand for attention. To be gullible enough to kow-tow to these gobsh1tes is demeaning.

woolywords says...
7:18pm Fri 10 Sep 10

My will reads thus..
I owe much; have nothing.
The rest I leave to the poor.

Statistically, it is the poorer end of the scale that goes for self-termination, as the wealthier tend to squander it on the excesses of life.

pez63 says...
7:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Some people need a good push in life to help them along there merry way.

ClitheroeKid says...
7:59pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.

theavenger2008 says...
8:34pm Fri 10 Sep 10

Poor lad. he is now in the care of a bunch of bit#hy hairdressers at the pendleview hospital,royal blackburn. The amateur mind meddlers who harm more than they ever heal. He would have been better jumping than end up in there.

theavenger2008 says...
8:37pm Fri 10 Sep 10

ClitheroeKid wrote:
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.

happycyclist says...
9:43pm Fri 10 Sep 10

ClitheroeKid wrote:
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
Yeah, well I have been in this position (waking up in BRI after attempting to off myself with a hosepipe attatched to a car exhaust after being thwarted by a police patrol in Roddlesworth Woods one weekday night). I'd have been happy for you to talk behind my back, but unfortunately I lived.
The help you talk about is often nothing more than the help that people get from the Jobcentres to find work -ie nothing more than box-ticking. The support isn't there and even if it was that's not the bloody issue -the real issue is why people feel the need to leave this mortal coil.
For many people, life is simply too sh*t to want to carry on. I doubt you'll understand that, but take my word for it because it's the blunt truth. Society is sh*t, people are sh*t, life is sh*t.
If you don't want people to take their own lives, stop hammering people who are down on their luck and start having a bit more compassion for everyone. It's NOT the government's responsibility (to a point), but 'ordinary' people with hateful attitudes towards others that causes despondency and depression in many cases.
Tough guys don't commit suicide; sensitive people do.

ClitheroeKid asks: "Are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don't care about our fellow human beings?"
Yes we are. You're in denial if you think otherwise.

happycyclist says...
9:46pm Fri 10 Sep 10

theavenger2008 wrote:
ClitheroeKid wrote:
Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore.
That's the bit you don't get!

happycyclist says...
9:47pm Fri 10 Sep 10

theavenger2008 wrote:
Poor lad. he is now in the care of a bunch of bit#hy hairdressers at the pendleview hospital,royal blackburn. The amateur mind meddlers who harm more than they ever heal. He would have been better jumping than end up in there.
Well said.

useyourhead says...
10:45pm Fri 10 Sep 10

happycyclist wrote:
theavenger2008 wrote:
ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!
Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying.
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hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?

happycyclist says...
8:35am Sat 11 Sep 10

useyourhead wrote:
happycyclist wrote:
theavenger2008 wrote:
ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!
Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying.
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hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?
Naw, I'm fine, no need to worry about me. But I have been there.

useyourhead says...
12:26pm Sat 11 Sep 10

happycyclist wrote:
useyourhead wrote:
happycyclist wrote:
theavenger2008 wrote:
ClitheroeKid wrote: Well I hope all of you so far (apart from Lancs Lassie) NEVER EVER find yourselves in such a desperate state that you feel that you have no option but to jump of a motorway bridge or any other place. If you do I will take great pleasure talking about (behind your back) in an unforgiving and disgusting manner and I’ll take great delight in. How would you like to be talked about like this? I trust you’d be extremely happy! What we should be doing is putting pressure on the powers that be to make sure more support is readily available for anyone who feels that they have no options left but to jump/take their own lives – or are we such an unforgiving and uncaring society that we don’t care one bit about our fellow human beings? This situation could happen to anyone! And anyone who denies that it could is living in cloud cuckoo land.
well said. I support the care of anybody who feels this low.
Many of these people don't want your 'support'. They want your help to end their lives so that they don't have to put up with people like you anymore. That's the bit you don't get!
Happycyclist, are you ok? i'm a bit concerned about you, please don't think i'm being funny/sarcastic, it's just your posts on this seem to be ... well worrying. - hope you are not as distressed as you are sounding?
Naw, I'm fine, no need to worry about me. But I have been there.
glad your ok, very emotive comments coming through for this subject, some posters are insensitive at times!

burty basset says...
1:02am Mon 20 Sep 10

i didnt see any rolling road blocks i was the first wagon trying to get past but i had to reverse up about a quarter of a mile unaided although there was 3 police cars and a van, what a good start to the day

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