POLICE and coastguards were called out to a notorious suicide spot when a man appeared to be threatening to jump off a bridge.
But when they arrived at Monkwearmouth Bridge, in Sunderland, at midnight on Friday, they discovered he was walking on the outside of the hand railings just to impress his girlfriend.
She eventually talked him down and no further action was taken.
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