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State trooper in Massachusetts saves a man from jumping off a bridge

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 14 Dec

Massachusetts State Patrol (MSP) Trooper Rassam Charles was just doing his job to speak to a man who wanted to jump off of the Tobin Bridge in Boston Massachusetts last month by convincing the man not to jump off of the bridge...

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There is a lovely Gurudwara in Manikaran Sahib

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 6 Nov

From the valley area in Kasol there is a lovely Gurudwara in Manikaran Sahib. It is a very sacred place. The bridge that is built is above the parvati river. Parvati river is a hilly river having transparent...

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Escaped Death

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50135) • India 30 Aug

So far I have escaped death twice in my life. Once, when. I had hired a motorcycle at a village to reach the railway station 17 kms away. The motorcycle collided head on with a speeding truck coming from opposite side And, the...

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In Maldives the beaches are full of white sand

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 6 Aug

Maldives has a lovely ambience. In all the islands there is lovely white sand. The sand is not course. There are wooden bridges where travellers can spend a lot of time. It is always full of lovely sea...

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Authorities rescue an opossum from a bridge in Michigan

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Jun

Police officers from the Mackinac County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) and officers from the Mackinac Bridge Authority answered an emergency call about an opossum who was seen on the bridge. Thanks to the teamwork of the deputies and...

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Firefighters in Texas rescue 4 homeless persons trapped under a bridge

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 17 Jun

Firefighters in Waco Texas answered an emergency call on Thursday morning June 12 that one cat, three males and one female who were trapped underneath a bridge neat an encampment that had been flooded due to rain. The...

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Teenager rescues a one year old girl who fell into a river in Ohio

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 May 25

Fremont Ohio resident Tyson Kieffer who is 15 years old was walking on a bicycle trail on Sunday evening when he saw a family of four persons on a bridge that is reserved for trains only. When the train was on the tracks off...

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The Capilano Suspension Bridge

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 17 May 25

I watched a very interesting travel video recently on Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It had several tourist spots to visit. One of them was this suspension bridge. I don't think I would be able to venture out on such a...

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Police officer in South Carolina save a man who wanted to end his life

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 27 Apr 25

North Charleston Police Department Officer Sergeant Lizarazo acted on his desire to live up to his oath to serve and protect citizens of his city when he was able to prevent a man who attempted to jump off of the Ashley Phosphate...

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Female opossum leads police on a slow chase in a road in California

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 20 Mar 25

California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers were in pursuit of a female opossum or are they called Jills who was traveling across the Golden Gate Bay Bridge in San Francisco about three weeks ago. CHP officers answered an emergency...

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Animal control officers rescue a dog that was on a ledge on a highway bridge

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Dec 24

Employees of the Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services answered an emergency call from an eyewitness who saw a female dog that was on the ledge of the Myrtle Avenue Bridge on what was most likely Sunday December 15. The...

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Ohio state police officer rescue a dog who was on a bridge

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Aug 24

Ohio State Highway Patrol Officer Alec Kalis was doing his duty in Columbus Ohio last Thursday when a dog named Miley had been seen running away from the Ohio State Fair toward a bridge west of the venue. Officer Kalis offered...

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Firefighters in Alabama rescue a man who jumped into a river

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Jul 24

Firefighters from the Childersburg Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to the Coosa River Bridge which is the border crossing of Talladega and Shelby Counties when a man whose name was not released fell 80 feet into the...

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Would you fix this? Or just leave it

Melanie Marie @Melanie_Marie (2448) • St. Clair, Michigan 25 May 24

Hi friends, I don’t know how this happened to one of the bridges. It just goes over a creek, so it’s not like anyone or anything (like an animal) would fall through and drown. Could possibly be storm damage. I could either nail...

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Brevard County deputy saves her K 9 partner from jumping off a bridge

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Mar 24

Brevard County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) Deputy Lauren Donaldson was returning to her squad car on the evening of Tuesday March 5 after she made an arrest of a suspect on the 528 Causeway in Florida that connects Merritt Island...

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A female truck driver rescued by firefighters in Kentucky

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 2 Mar 24

A female semitruck driver who was inside her semitruck when it was involved in a traffic accident at the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville Kentucky on Friday afternoon when he her semitruck was hanging over the Ohio River while...

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London Bridge was Falling Down

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 30 Oct 23

In a City of London auction in 1968 Robert McCulloch won the bid( with a $2.5 million bid) on the old bridge that had spanned the River Thames in London, England since the 1830's. He then paid another $7 million to get the granite...

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Millions of money scattered in a bridge

lady Di @lady1993 (27221) • Philippines 4 Jul 23

I think the guy was transporting money for his company, about 73K USD. The company wanted to save money on gas, so it was just transported by a guy in a motorcycle. The zipper of the bag malfunctioned in the bridge, so it was...

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What are love locks? Read on and all will be revealed

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Apr 23

I wrote about ‘love locks’ in my discussion about the Ha’penny Bridge in Dublin, Ireland. Love locks are padlocks fixed to some public bridge, gate or other structure symbolising the unbreakable love between two people. The...

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Things we saw yesterday

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Apr 23

The collage shows some of the things that we saw yesterday on our drive through a small part of Co. Mayo in Ireland. We passed a neolithic wedge grave (top left). It is one of the four types of gallery graves. There were steps to...

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