- WASHINGTON - A 92-year-old
man on his way to buy groceries spotted a person straddling a bridge railing,
stopped his car and, with the help of a passing motorist, wrestled the
man to the ground and sat on him to prevent him from committing suicide.
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- George Kouloheras was joined by Bob Michalczyk, 42, in
saving the distraught man on Saturday in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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- Mr Kouloheras said he asked the man: "Why do you
want to jump? Life is wonderful."
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- "God wants me to die," the man answered.
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- But Mr Kouloheras was unrelenting. "Everyone has
a purpose in life," he said. "You just have to find yours. Then
you'll get to be as old as me."
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- Eighty years ago, as a boy scout, Mr Kouloheras ran into
a burning building to save a baby.
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- Mr Kouloheras handed the man over to authorities, who
took him to a hospital for treatment.
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