A well-known commercial real estate magnate was able to successfully talked down a man threatening to jump from Pittsburgh's 40th Street Bridge.
Herky Pollock says he was driving across the bridge Tuesday when he saw a man, a military veteran, on the edge.
He stopped immediately and spent 3 and a half hours, alongside three Millvale police officers, working to build trust and talk the man down.
“I’m just very grateful that it ended the way it did because we kept saying to him ‘there’s 25 people on this bridge right now and you have a piece of our heart, each and every one of us and this can go one of two ways’ and had it gone the other way, it would be a whole different outcome today,” said Pollock.
Pollock adds he told the man who was traveling through Pittsburgh that “whatever you’re going through, no matter what it is, it’s just temporary.”
Pollock tells the Big K Morning Show that he rarely drives across the 40th Street Bridge, but he believes that fate and divine intervention placed him there to help save that man's life.
Pollock says he knows what it’s like to lose someone to suicide.
He lost his stepfather over 30 years ago to suicide when he jumped from the Homestead Grays bridge.
Pollock used that experience to help convince the man to come down and was saved.
Pollock is the man behind restaurants like Palm Palm, SugarBird, Ritual House, Shorty’s and The Common Good
Herky Pollock has lived through suicide in his family
Herky Pollock has lived through suicide in his family
