1: Driver Witnesses Suicide Off The Ambassador Bridge
Hammer Lane Legends
Merkel Media
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car, |
| 0:12.3 | across the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you. |
| 0:16.1 | The only people really pulled over were truckers. |
| 0:19.3 | He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down. |
| 0:21.6 | He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, |
| 0:25.6 | but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way. |
| 0:30.6 | I noticed his plane was really low. |
| 0:33.6 | He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around. You know, 30 seconds more, he could have hit us. |
| 0:40.3 | And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood |
| 0:47.3 | and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck. |
| 0:53.3 | That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen. |
| 1:02.5 | Welcome to the show, everybody. |
| 1:03.7 | You're listening to Hammer Lane Legends. |
| 1:05.5 | I am a host of the show. |
| 1:07.2 | My name is Tony Merkel, and alongside of me is Brian Merkel, and I call him Dad. So, Dad, how are you doing? I'm doing all right. How about yourself? I'm doing fine. I am really excited about this podcast, and this is a podcast that I've been thinking about for going on two years now. And, you know, when I first started the idea of this podcast, I started it on my own, and it didn't really go anywhere because I was busy with my other podcast. And I did one interview with a guy named Kevin, who we will be |
| 1:32.6 | talking with later on in this episode, or I will be, because you weren't on that one. But, you know, |
| 1:38.5 | it was a really interesting experience that he had, and he was actually, he's been a trucker for years |
| 1:43.5 | going up and down the east coast of the United States into Canada. and he was actually, he's been a trucker for years going up and down the |
| 1:44.4 | east coast of the United States into Canada. And he actually had seen some wild things. And one of |
| 1:49.8 | the things that he saw was actually somebody that committed suicide right in front of him off |
| 1:54.5 | the Ambassador Bridge. Wow. Yeah. And so can me, can you imagine seeing something like that while |
| 1:59.7 | you're in the truck? I cannot. I cannot imagine watching that happen. Can't imagine you're going down. I just cannot imagine. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's very surreal. I mean, you think about, you know, people that die in your life and, you know, at least I do. Maybe I'm just morbid, but I often think about, like for for instance, we had a driver at work. Now, I'm a |
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