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The Pieyed Piper

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A British radio DJ is being criticized for playing Van Halen’s “Jump” as police tried to talk a suicidal woman down from a highway bridge last week.

A British mental health charity said it was horrified by the incident Thursday morning, and would bring it up with Britain’s media regulator.

Disc jockey Steve Penk, who owns Revolution Radio and hosts its morning show, said he played the song at the request of a commuter sitting in traffic on a highway shut down while police negotiators tried to talk the woman off the bridge. He said several commuters had called to express frustration at the delays. Penk said he made no reference to the woman in playing the song.

The 30-year-old woman eventually jumped, sustaining only minor injuries in shattering her heel bones, Manchester police said. She would not have heard the song on the bridge, and so it could not have affected her actions, police said.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/01/18/12513691-ap.html

Just think, if she had died he could have played Queen's "Another one bites the dust"

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