Caught on camera: The heart-stopping moment quick-thinking cops stopped suicidal man from jumping off 140ft bridge

Quick-thinking officers were caught on camera saving a suicidal man about to leap from a 140ft bridge.

Dramatic dash-cam footage shows the moment the pair sprinted up to the man and restrained him – moments before he was about to jump into the Columbia River from off the Bridge of Gods.

They kicked into action after Portland police were warned that a suicidal man was heading there to jump.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142926/Caught-camera-The-moment-quick-thinking-police-officers-stopped-suicidal-man-jumping-140ft-bridge.html#ixzz1uaMDYQQI

May 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

US Wind Farm Being Paid NOT to Produce Power

Pacific Northwest green power project another in a long list of state-subsidized failures in the new carbon economy

Dan Springer
FOX News
March 9, 2012

Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained withtax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the [...]

March 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

COPS: Man Late For Court Appearance Gets 3 Speeding Tickets — In An Hour!

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Traffic officers along Interstate 84 in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge say a lead-footed driver was in such a hurry to make a court date on a meth possession charge that he racked up $2,000 worth of speeding tickets in an hour.

Police say 34-year-old Jose Romero-Valenzuela of Las Vegas, Nev., was zooming west Wednesday morning and got pulled over three times – first at 105 mph, then at [...]

March 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: All | Leave a comment

GOD: Admin to kill barred owls to save spotted

WASHINGTON — To save the imperiled spotted owl, the Obama administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to shoot barred owls, a rival bird that has shoved its smaller cousin aside.

The plan is the latest federal attempt to protect the northern spotted owl, the passive, one-pound bird that sparked an epic battle over logging in the Pacific Northwest two decades ago.

The government set aside millions of acres of forest [...]

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