{"id":33745,"date":"2016-12-05T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=33745"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:31:12","slug":"911-dispatchers-beautiful-words-stops-suicidal-man-from-ending-his-life-in-front-of-wife-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/911-dispatchers-beautiful-words-stops-suicidal-man-from-ending-his-life-in-front-of-wife-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"911 Dispatcher&#8217;s Beautiful Words Stop Suicidal Man From Ending His Life In Front Of Wife And Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>One quick-thinking Milwaukee 911 dispatcher is considered a hero for talking a suicidal man from killing himself in front of his girlfriend and young son. A woman called 911 saying that her boyfriend was in the backyard with a gun to his head and was threatening to take his own life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33746 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispather1.jpg\" alt=\"dispather1\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispather1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispather1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The desperate girlfriend begged her boyfriend not to kill himself, even telling their son to tell his father he loves him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girlfriend: \u201cTell daddy you love him.\u201d<br \/>\nChild: \u201cI love you. \u201d<br \/>\nDispatcher: \u201cDoes he know the police are coming?\u201d<br \/>\nGirlfriend: \u201cYes. He doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<br \/>\nChild: \u201cI love you daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>When Woods-Smith talked to the man and was unbelievable kind to him. She reminded him that he was a \u201cnice person\u201d and that his decision would affect a lot of people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dispatcher: \u201cYou have a gun on you right now?\u201d<br \/>\nMan: \u201cUh huh.\u201d<br \/>\nDispatcher: \u201cHoney, you know the police are coming there?\u201d<br \/>\nMan: \u201cYeah.\u201d<br \/>\nDispatcher: \u201cI need you to put that gun down. I need you to put it down. I don\u2019t want you to harm yourself, okay? What\u2019s going on in your head right now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispatcher2-1.jpg\" alt=\"dispatcher2\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispatcher2-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dispatcher2-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI just pretty much kind of did a prayer in my head,\u201d Woods-Smith said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man: \u201cI\u2019m taking my life right now before they get here.\u201d<br \/>\nDispatcher: \u201cNo, no, no, no. I don\u2019t want you to do that. I don\u2019t know you, but you don\u2019t sound like a bad person. You sound like a really nice person. If you do that, it\u2019s going to affect a lot of people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, the man put the gun down after speaking with the faith-driven Woods-Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girlfriend: \u201cHe put the gun down. It\u2019s not on the ground, but he put it down.\u201d<br \/>\nDispatcher: \u201cTell him to come and hug you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 911 dispatcher doesn\u2019t want to be hailed as a hero but instead says she\u2019s proud of the man for doing the right thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzzND9nIR8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Share\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Be Kind<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (7.4.18) simplesharebuttons.com --><div id=\"ssba-classic-2\" class=\"ssba ssbp-wrap left ssbp--theme-1\"><div style=\"text-align:left\"><span class=\"ssba-share-text\">Like it? 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A woman called 911 saying that her boyfriend was in the backyard with a gun to his head and was threatening to take his own life. The desperate girlfriend begged her boyfriend not to kill himself, even telling their son to tell his father he loves him. Girlfriend: \u201cTell daddy you love him.\u201d Child: \u201cI love you. \u201d Dispatcher: \u201cDoes he know the police are coming?\u201d Girlfriend: \u201cYes. He doesn\u2019t care.\u201d Child: \u201cI love <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29,5843,4,41],"tags":[2337,2811,5933,5498],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33751,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions\/33751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33745"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}