'Jump' played as man threatened to leap

As police negotiated with a man threatening to jump from an overpass, the Van Halen song 'Jump' played on their radios.

As police negotiated with a man threatening to jump from an overpass, the Van Halen song 'Jump' played on their radios.

The broadcast could not have been heard by the man, who at the time was hanging on the overpass, in Omaha, Nebraska, police spokesman Sgt Dan Cisar said.

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