Woman Threatens to Leap from Millenium
Saturday, July 26th, 2003 at 12:07 pm · 10 views
Woman threatens to leap from Millenium
Police and firefighters attached ropes to a woman who had been threatening to leap from the Millenium Hotel in downtown St. Louis this afternoon. After an ordeal of about two hours, she was removed from a ledge of the hotel without incident.
The drama started around noon as the unidentified woman went onto a ledge toward the northwest quadrant of the circular hotel, facing toward Broadway. Dozens of firefighters and police reponded to the scene. She was brought down at about 2:07 p.m. today.
Two or three officers tried to talk her off the ledge, sometimes appearing to have heated discussions. Meanwhile, firefighters stretched a net — possibly 300 to 400 square feet — affixed at two corners from two windows of the hotel and hoisted on the other two corners by fire trucks.
By nearly 2 p.m., police appeared to have attached ropes to the woman, who at times dangled her legs off a ledge high up the hotel. Sometimes she was lying down.
Traffic has been tied up in downtown St. Louis throughout, as police cleared the area of pedestrians and blocked traffic on Broadway, roughly between Walnut to the north and Clark to the south.
From: STLToday.com
What did this woman think she was going to accomplish? Threatening to leap? WTF…ok now it is not that serious. Is she mad because she didn’t get her paycheck in her account like she was supposed to? Did baby daddy back out on taking her out to eat? Take a deep breath and get some counseling dear because nothing is worth jumping from a ledge of a hotel. Note I did not say suicide, because she might have jumped then ended up like Martin Lawrence talked about on one of his old skits… crippled and all regretting her ATTEMPTED suicide. I am going to have to break out that old Martin CD ROFLMAO.
