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Dec 12, 2013 News
A man purportedly of unsound mind, created commotion on the La Penitence Public Road, yesterday by “jumping in the way of a moving dump truck.”
The driver of the truck, Wola Simpson, said that he was transporting silt.
“We de coming from desilting dem drain along the public road when dis man come out of nowhere and jump in me passage way so I turn fuh avoid he and me ain’t knock he but all de silt and stuff from the truck fall pon de road. The man lie down in all de slush. He just lay down under de truck and ain’t want move”
When Kaieteur news arrived on the scene, the man was lying beneath the truck in a pool of slush obstructing the flow of traffic. He was refusing to move.
As persons living and working nearby converged on the scene, several passersby took photographs and inquired about the man’s condition.
“What happened? He said he want to kill heself?” some said.
An officer at the scene told this newspaper that the fire service was called in to assist. No police ain’t gon want hold he in da condition. The fire truck arrived some time later and sprayed water on the road way and beneath the truck. Yet the man refused to move. However, the driver of the truck assisted in pulling him from beneath the vehicle.
The man (no name given) was later identified as a vagrant, who is usually in the
vicinity of the La Penitence market. He was taken into police custody.
He was heard saying that he wanted to kill himself because someone was trying to kill him.
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